The Lowdown on Recording your Mobile Calls
It used to be that recording a phone call, be it land line or mobile conjured up a vision of James Bond, the police or even the FBI. Fixed line call recording is still seen as taboo, and confusion reigns supreme over the legalities involved in recording calls, especially mobile calls. Most people would be surprised to know that 40 U.S. states have "One Party Notification" laws - meaning that only one party of a call needs to be aware that it is being recorded. Many countries have similar laws, including Mexico which recently put into affect a one party call recording notification law.
This means that you can call or receive a call from someone and knowingly record the conversation and have abslutely no legal responsibility of letting the other party know that the call is being taped. In some states there are consumer protection laws that can come into play if the call is being recorded and used for business purposes, so it is always wise to know your local laws in this regards prior to recording calls for business purposes.
Mobile Call Recording has been a hot topic ever since devices began shipping with an audio recorder, with bloggers and journalists writing about the pro's and con's of a world where your every call is recorded and stored for all eternity and just how the device manufacturers would handle the legal burden of enabling this. However the truth turns out that just because a cell phone comes equipped with this functionality doesn't mean that recording the call is even possible. In fact, very few devices are capable of recording anything other than the audio coming from the device itself, and even fewer can record anything more than a few minutes of a call without the help of 3rd party software, and many of those play some sort of warning tone that the other side can hear, indicating the call is being recorded.
Enter "Total Recall S60 Call Recorder". Total Recall is a mobile phone application developed by Killer Mobile Software LLC based in the Northwestern US that runs on S60 (Symbian OS) & Android Devices, which includes mobile phones such as the extremely popular Nokia N and E series and the G1 & MyTouch. Total Recall enables automatic, high quality, silent and unlimited length call recording for both incoming and outgoing calls. Other features of this cutting edge Mobile Software include automatic sending of the recorded call clips via Email or MMS, advanced call filtering rules, autostart on device reboot, 100% background operation, intelligent clip naming and manual call recording using hot keys.
In fact, call recording can be extremely useful for business, professional and even private use, including Attorneys, Private Investigators, Businessmen, Road Warriors, Busy On-The-Go Moms and of course the occasional Spy or Double Agent!
Killer Mobile Software offers a free, 14 day, full featured demo version of the Total Recall Call Recording application directly from http://www.killermobile.com. If you like what you see, you can purchase a license for unlimited use, and updates for the life of your device for the very reasonable price of $15.00. While you're at the Killer Mobile website you can get information on compatible devices (there's over 60 at the time of this article), complete feature list of program, and take a look at some of their other interesting applications.
A partial list of compatible mobile devices is as follows (Includes Nokia Symbian S60 and Android devices)
Nokia N70, N90, N72, 6600, 6630, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6210, 6220, 6290, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E75 E90, N69, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N85, N86, N91, N92, N93, N95, N95 8GB, N96, 5320 XM, 5320 XM, 5800 Xpress Music, E52, E55, 5530 xpress, 6710 Navigator, 6720 Classic, 6730, N97, N97 mini, X6, Android G1, Android MyTouch, HTC Hero, HTC Dream.
Total Recall DOWNLOAD LINKS
Nokia S60 2nd Edition: http://killermobile.mobi/apps/TR2.SIS
Nokia S60 3rd Edition: http://killermobile.mobi/apps/TR4.10.SIS
Nokia S60 5th Edition: http://killermobile.mobi/apps/TR4.10.SIS
Android: http://www.killermobile.mobi/ota/TRA.apk
If you're looking to further your knowledge on the subject of call recording, you'll find a great resource of call recording laws and regulations both for specific US States and Countries around the world here. Keep in mind that at the end of the day, knowing the specific laws and regulations regarding Mobile Call Recording is your own personal responsibility, and Killer Mobile Software LLC takes no responsibility for illicit use of our applications.
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