[Macworld]

Post your comments for iPhone battery life redialed here

[pysan]

Sounds like you really pounded it out! That is some serious redialing efforts, but good to know the iPhone held up to the battle.
-Ryan

[****]

He didn't say if his landline phone had automatic redialing. As I recall, most, if not all phones manufactured during the last 10-15 years DO NOT provide auto redialing. You really have to look around for them on eBay.
Auto redialing is very fast. As soon as it senses a busy signal it is already redialing. This is NOT the same as the redial button. I think what happened is the phone companies complained that their systems were being overloaded and got the manufacturers to eliminate this feature.
If youy have one of these, nurture it.

[griffman]

Yea, no auto redial on the landline. Verizon actually offers it as a service, but it's not cheap enough for me to pay for it for the two times a year I need it.
-rob.

[cweber]

Love that story! Both thumbs up (as sore as they are after redialing) for dedicated fathers everywhere!
Christoph
father who'd sacrifice his fingers if he had to

[aventheusiast]

While it defeats the purpose of this article; if you want to get through to a busy number, there is always 69. (At least for AT&T customers) For those not familiar with 69 - when you get a busy signal, hang up and dial *69. You will get an alert notification and then hang up. As soon as the number you are trying to reach is free (for up to 1/2 hour) your phone will ring and connect to the number you were trying to reach.

[griffman]

I've tried that in the past, too, and had no luck -- I think because often times you don't even get a busy signal (you get "all circuits busy"). At that point, at least when I last tried it, it seems the callback feature gave up. I'll try it again next go round, though -- it's been a couple years since I last tried.

-rob.

[smoothscotty]

I've had about the same result in a similar scenario. Starting with a fully charged battery, two+ hours of iphone redialing didn't get me quite to 20%, but close to that. I agree that the redialing feature on the iPhone is fast. I was able to place about one and a half to two calls for every one call on my cordless handheld via Verizon landline. It was kind of a contest after the first few hundred dials. http://i.e. Right ha...ging left hand. Come on lefty, gimme what you got! HOW FAST can your fingers go!!? Course, my hands were quite ticked off with one another the rest of the day.