Upgrades to the SpareOnePlus include a location-based service which identifies the exact location of the cell ID, accessible through a free smartphone app, as well as audible numeric feedback which reads the number dialed and incomingcalls aloud.
The Associated Press tracked down one of our favorite ruthless salesmen, MagicJack CEO Dan Borislow, who described a service much like Google Voice and Skype, number portability and all -- except it adds the whole allowing-free-calls-to-regular-ol-telephones bit by charging the companies that carry incomingcalls.
Verizon, the main New York phone company, has now said that it will make all 4, 000 of its public payphones in the city free "for the duration of the current emergency", and unlike in normal times would lift the bar on incomingcalls.