gordon@lion.drogon.net declared for all the world to hear...
> 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...

Floats mobile agent for sonyericsson phones does this. When the phone is
connected to the PC over bluetooth (or cable or IrDA) a pop-up box
appears showing the caller ID, and the name and a picture if you have
one stored. So what you describe must be possible.
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Regards
Jon