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Vipin V. Nair

Kochi , March 10

IF `I am driving' and `I am getting a call' are your usual tricks to cut short a call, you can now sound more credible by adding fake background noise on your mobile phone.

A new software called `SounderCover,' developed by SIMEDA GmbH of Germany, will add a background sound to incoming and outgoing calls from your cell phone, giving the impression that you are driving, or getting a phone call or watching a film as you may wish.

Once downloaded on to the phone, SounderCover will blend the fake background sound to the outgoing or incoming calls. So if an unstoppable chatterbox calls you up, 15 seconds into the call, he or she will hear another phone ringing, and you can say, `excuse me, I am getting a call' and hang up!

SIMEDA is yet to start selling SounderCover in India, but it can be downloaded from a Web site, www.handango.com, for $ 9.95. The software is compatible only with Nokia mobile phones of the Series 60 platform, such as 3650, 3660 and 7650, said Mr Liviu Tofan, CEO of SIMEDA in an e-mail to Business Line.

A user can choose sounds of a traffic jam, phone ring, heavy machinery, sounds from a dentist's room, park, or a street. One may also use one's own pre-recorded sounds.

Mr Tofan claims that though SounderCover was launched only very recently, it has generated a great amount of interest from across the world. "We do not have a presence in India, but we would welcome the possibility of working together with a local distributor," Mr Tofan said.

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