Gaia/Dialer

The Dialer app offers phone calling functionality, recent/history of calls, voicemail, and contacts.

Status

• Feature Name: Gaia Dialer App
• Stage: Development
• Release Target: M3 Alpha

Use Cases

• Tom wants to make a phone call and launches the Dialer app
• The Dialer app offers him four core pieces of functionality:
  • Dialer with numeric support
  • History of recent incoming/outgoing calls
  • Contacts list
  • Favorites/Speed dial
• Tom has the ability to dial a call manually from the dialer screen
• Tom has the ability to dial a call from his Recents list
• Tom has the ability to dial a call from Contacts directly by touching their name
• Tom has the ability to dial a call from his Favorites/Speed dial list
• When Tom misses a phone call, it should show up in his Notifications as well as under his Recents list of incoming calls
• When Tom misses a phone call and the person leaves a voicemail, it should show up in his Notifications that he has a voicemail available and has the ability to access his voicemail from the Dialer app

App Requirements

Gaia v1

• Dialer app offers several key areas:
  • Standard numeric dialer
    • "+" support for intl numbers
    • Holding down the delete key should repeat the delete action
  • Recents List should support:
    • Incoming calls
    • Outgoing calls
    • Missed incoming calls
    • User needs to be able to dial the number directly from this list
    • Phone numbers that have been stored in Contacts should appear as contact names - all other phone numbers should appear formatted in their native format (i.e. (XXX) XXX-XXXX)
  • Favorites (aka Speed dial)
    • User has the ability to add any existing contact as a favorite
    • User has the ability to re-arrange the order of this list
    • User has the ability to delete any contact from this list
    • User has the ability to create a new contact and add it as a favorite to this list
  • Contacts (requirements will be detailed here)
  • Voicemail
    • Working with the carrier on accessing a user's voicemail, the user has the ability to access/manage their voicemail via a phone number in their Contacts list titled "Voicemail".

Gaia v2

• Visual Voicemail