A friend of mine, who takes many business calls while driving between meetings, recently mentioned to me an excellent idea for a Windows Mobile application.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a program that would give you an audible alert as to when you might be traveling into an area where your phone will lose reception? It could be user configurable so that when the signal strength reaches a certain low, a notification appears/sounds indicating that you might lose your phone’s connection soon. It should have an option to only be active while you’re on a phone call because that’s really the only time that you definitely care about the signal strength, and it would be extremely useful to be able to tell the person on the other end that you might lose the connection soon.

So all you Windows Mobile developers out there in internet land, there’s another freebie idea. That’s the kind of intelligence a “smart phone” should be capable of.