[Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

With CallBlocker, you can have a "blacklist" of phone numbers that will be blocked. When people from those numbers try to call, they will always receive a "busy" tone (and/or redirect to voicemail, depending on your own standard setup).

You can download the .deb package from garage.maemo.org. I will probably push it to extras-devel in a few days.

The main limitation at the moment is that numbers need to be an exact match; for example, if you specify a local number (e.g. 012345) and then the network reports a call from that number but with international notation (e.g. +4412345), it will not be blocked. So when in doubt, use both notations. This will hopefully be fixed in a future release.

Note: the application requires python2.5-qt4-gui, which is currently available only in extras-testing.

Please log bugs and feature requests on the trackers linked from the project page on Garage.

Thanks to Vinu Thomas for the original script.

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

Will it block with held numbers? thats what I really want to block :D

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

Excellent app. The N900 needs more useful phone apps!

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

Does this block Private Calls? and/or Unidentified calls?

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

At the moment, it does not block withheld / unidentified calls. It's on the feature list for 1.1 :)
I also plan to add a feature to block all calls except ones from people already in addressbook, probably for 1.2.

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

No it will not

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

possibe to add feature to block all numbers starting with' lets say 0098?

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

Another one for the feature list... keep'em coming :) lol

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

this looks promising....I don't have any ideas to add to the project but I will help with the testing...

Re: [Announce] CallBlocker 1.0 - block calls from specific numbers
 

You gotta love open source phones... keep them coming. I'm beginning to feel sorry for my N95... It is going to be abandoned for good.