Just a short post, this; a follow up from my earlier post on my war against the pesky tele-marketing flies that seem to get into our cellular phones with annoying regularity these days.
First, meet my Commander-in-chief in battle, the
In the week that I've had the software I wrote about on my device, it has stopped 69 unwanted smses and 1 unwanted call.
Unless they're paying some kids somewhere to send me fake marketing smses (to prove their own efficiency :-), I'd say the software has pretty much already paid for it's keep.
Mobiwatchman is made by a Pune-based Indian company called Optinno. At Rs.200 (less than $5) for a license, it's value for money, true paisa wasool.
It has many customisable features - rules you can set up about who gets into your mobile and who doesn't - but its been a busy work week and I've had little time to play around with the more advanced features.
Yet, even the simplest feature, of blocking anyone not in my phonebook from sending me smses, has saved me so much mind space in the last week, I'm moved to give it a high thumbs up.
Other than the unwanted messages kept out, when I got calls from numbers not stored in my phonebook, it warned me that 'suspicious' callers were trying to reach me. At the end of the call, it offered me the option of either blacklisting them or branding them as trusted.
One of these calls was from a telemarketer, and I blacklisted her. This feature proved to be effective within the next 5 minutes, when, as often happens with these morons with lists of numbers to call each day, I got called again, from the same number, and my Mobiwatchman automatically rejected the call after the first ring...ah, sweet justice, without having to be rude to the moron :-)
I'll let you know if my watchman develops any bad habits (falling asleep on the job, getting drunk, flirting with the maids... the usual 'security-wala' problems :-) as the days go by.
For now, I'm enjoying the peace, knowing there's a good man on patrol. Cheers!
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