"Gordon Henderson" <gordon@lion.drogon.net> wrote in message
news:eo0984$38r$1@lion.drogon.net...
>I doubt this is possible, but does anyone know of a way to extract the
> caller ID on an incoming call to a mobile phone, and get it into some
> application running on a PC?
>
> Can some phones send it via their USB interface, or by any other means?
> (eg. bluetooth, or intercepting the incoming call somehow?)
>
> It's for a sort of CRM application - already being done with desk phones
> and an application running on a PC which talk to the PBX that pops up a
> screen when the phone rings and uses the incoming caller-id to identify
> the caller, bring up their "file", etc. - I'm just wondering if it's
> possible to extend it to mobiles...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gordon

You can get Bluetooth things that will display the number on an inbound
call, so that is an option...

For example
http://www.pjbox.co.uk/Mirror-Type-B...ee-Car-Kit.htm

Sparks...