.NET Components for Mobility

Peter Foot

Microsoft Device Application Development MVP

Phone Recording in Windows Mobile

There has been some buzz recently about further changes to the Windows Mobile 6.5 user experience since it was announced and the developer emulators released. For example this article has some screenshots:-

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544445

It shows changes to the soft-key menus at the bottom of the screen and a complete revamp of the tab control. Further on in this article there is a description of some registry keys which can be used to enable recording of voice calls which enables a new menu item inside the phone application. As it turns out these registry keys work on Windows Mobile 6.1 also as I was able to test on an HTC Touch Diamond 2. For reference the registry settings are:-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\AudioRecording]
"Enabled"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Voice]
"EnableCallRecordMenuItem"=dword:00000001
"AllowInCallRecording"=dword:00000001

Soft reset the device after setting these and you should notice a new Record menu item when in a phone call. You can listen to the recordings using the Notes application, they are given a unique filename with the timestamp of the call.

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About PeterFoot

Peter Foot is co-author of the Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook published by Microsoft Press. Peter has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) accolade since 2003 for his involvement in the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework developer community. Alongside an active presence in several online forums and communities, attendance at developer conferences and involvement in shared-source projects, Peter has also written a number of technical articles and maintains an active technical blog.
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