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Call recorder for Treo 650?
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Posted by: iDean

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew of any app that would record phone calls?

Thx

Posted by: HelioPause

I would love an app like this as well.

Posted by: Paul-the-Phone

I use mVoice, $24.95. http://www.motionapps.com/products.jsp?mvoice

Posted by: ilvla2

Just remember, in the US at least, you have to let the person know you are going to record the call, if you don't, it's jail time

Posted by: Paul-the-Phone

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Originally Posted by ilvla2

Just remember, in the US at least, you have to let the person know you are going to record the call, if you don't, it's jail time

It's not that cut and dried. The key element is consent to and/or knowledge of the recording of which there are two flavors: one-party and all-party. With one-party consent, it's sufficient if only one party to the call consents or is aware of the recording, which could be the person doing the recording. All-party requires everyone in the conversation to be informed of the recording either verbally or by beeps. Federal law requires only one-party consent but states usually have jurisdiction. Thirteen states require all-party consent but 37 (and DC) don't. The FCC requires all-party notification for interstate calls but federal prosecution is non-existent. My state, Missouri, requires only one-party. There's a chart of state requirements at http://telecom.hellodirect.com/docs...ng.1.092700.asp.

Although I'm a retired attorney, this is not legal advice.

Posted by: ilvla2

Either way, it's illegal to record someone's call without their knowledge (or a court order of course), that's what I was trying to say

Posted by: iDean

whatever, it would just be friends and family. Not like Im planning a hit or something. :P

Thanks for the app.

Posted by: ilvla2

Lol Awww come on, tell the truth, you dealing with Guido from Hits-R-US

Posted by: Paul-the-Phone

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Originally Posted by ilvla2

Either way, it's illegal to record someone's call without their knowledge (or a court order of course), that's what I was trying to say

It's not illegal in 37 states if the one doing the recording is a party to the call. My primary reason for recording calls is to save complicated driving directions. I never let the other person know I'm recording the call and this is perfectly legal in my state. It doesn't matter whether I call them or they call me. Actually, it's legal to record any call if you think it might be a threatening call like you think it might be a hit man saying "I'm gonna get you!"

Posted by: Snagga

Thanxfor the chart paul, figures i live in MA

Posted by: Snagga

Thanx for the chart paul, figures i live in MA

Posted by: cng.

So I have mVoice but I dont know how to do this.

Posted by: Paul-the-Phone

What I usually do is just switch to mVoice while on the call, choose New and press the start button, and then press the stop button when done. Going to a Palm app doesn't disconnect a call. mVoice will record both sides of the conversation very clearly. I'm perfectly happy with v2.0 so I didn't pay the ten bucks to upgrade. I assume the current version works the same way.

Posted by: ilvla2

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Originally Posted by Paul-the-Phone

Thankfully, it's NOT legal to do that in CA

Posted by: Paul-the-Phone

Recording happens far more often than most people realize. I have relatives in southern California and go there occasionally. The law has never stopped me from recording directions to a cousin's house in a city where I've never been. Recording is impossible to detect and the only evidence would be in a phone legally seized by the police. One of my younger teenage cousins in California records all her calls to her boyfriend and he certainly doesn't know it. I know people who record ALL calls on their landline phone automatically. The law is aimed at third-party eavesdroppers and isn't based on any "right to privacy" or other legal theory. The law is really aimed at law enforcement (and private detectives), part of the whole business of wiretapping.

Posted by: xpdnc

I've always understood that it's not necessarily that it's illegal, but that the recording is not always admissible as evidence.
In my case, recording phone calls saved me over $10,000 a few years ago. I used to record all of my stock instructions to my broker back when I used to do a lot of option trading. One time he got one of my instructions wrong and I lost over ten grand. I was furious, of course. He flat-out denied that I had told him to execute the order the way I had. I escalated it all the way up the chain within the organization, his word against mine.
When the time was right, and I was talking to whom I felt would be the appropriate person in management, I played a recording for him where the broker clearly heard and acknowledged my trade request. Without any hesitation they wrote me a check for what I had lost. There was no mention or question of whether it was legal or not to have recorded him.