Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Record a Phone Call

Record important phone conversations on your Nokia smartphone.

From time to time, we often need to record phone conversations for business or personal reasons. For instance, when you order merchandise over the phone, you probably want to keep a record of exactly what was agreed on in case a dispute arises in the future. On a landline telephone, you can use an answering machine to record phone conversations when you talk with lawyers, accountants, technical support, or even sales agents. But for mobile phones, the "answering machines" are located in the operator's server room. They record messages for missed calls but do not provide a way to record a conversation once you pick up your phone. How do you record a phone conversation on your mobile phone?

In some jurisdictions, the law requires you to notify the other party that the conversation is being recorded.

On a Nokia Series 40 phone, you can record a phone conversation using the Options Record menu from the idle screen while the phone call is in progress. The recorded conversation is saved as an audio clip in the phone's Gallery. Most Series 40 phones support up to three minutes of recording time.

Nokia Series 60 phones do not support phone conversation recording out of the box. But third-party programs are available that add powerful recorder functionality to Series 60 phones. In this hack, I discuss two such programs.

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