In modern days, cellphone obviously are the first choice when we need to call someone. But when cellphone fails us for whatever reasons, those phone booth on the street are there for you. During hurricane Sandy, when there was no power, no subway, no water or too much water, no cellphone sign, people were surprise yet happy to find those payphones were still working. They run on their own separate low power grid. They have metal casing, and all the parts are designed with being as robust as possible in mind (partly because people abuse these street furniture a lot). They survive in disasters. New York City is trying to reinvent the payphones to make our city more accessible, safer, healthier, greener and better informed. I saw a lot of awesome designs over the weekend. For sure, adding touch screens and cellphone charging ports and advertisement display panels to the booths are great. But I really still would like the phone function remains as part of the booth, because it is live depending in some situation. That’s my two cents for this competition.

1. Big Question
Why Payphone should exist?

2. Big Question
CAN
Why Payphone should exist?

3. You remember the number!!

4. +
411
PayPhone depends on directory
Bo Wen
Vladimir Dedov

5. What's that
● Access your contacts list from any phone
● Let your friends know where you are
● Call a cab
● Get a snack
● Report your card lost
● more...

6. Setup Account
Login or register an account
● username
● password
● email address
● cell phone number
● Use mongoDB as backend database
○ db.users.ensureIndex( { last_phone_number_digit : 1 } );

7. Setup Account
User agreement:
● ...
● grant server the access to user’s phonebook
in the cloud, when and only when user
explicitly raise the request.
● we never store any user phonebook
information on our server
● ...
I agree

8. Account Management
Account Cloud Payment Speed Dial
access number : 1-(202) 456-1111
access password (digit only, at least 4) : 1234

9. Account Management
sig
Account Cloud Payment Speed Dial
Sign in your cloud service:
Or download our app:

10. Account Management
sig
Account Cloud Payment Speed Dial
○ (default) Add to my cellphone bill
○ Paypal
○ Google wallet
○ Credit card

11. Account Management
sig
Account Cloud Payment Speed Dial
1. 1-(212)-222-3333 Rose
2. 1-(917)-222-3333 Jack
3. 1-(202)-222-3333 Mom
4. 1-(347)-222-3333 Boss
5. 1-(800)-222-3333 Visa

12. At a phone booth
Hopefully it is available

13. At a phone booth
Dial 411
...
press 1 for english...
1
press 1 to connect with 411+
press 2 to search through whitepages
press 3 for assistance
...

14. At a phone booth
Please say or enter your access number with #
1-XXX-XXX-XXXX #
Please enter your access password with #
HHHXXXXTT#

15. At a phone booth
Press 0 to access your phonebook
Press 1 to call Rose at 1-(212)-222-3333
Press 2 to call ...
Press 3 to call ...
Press 5 to buy a VISA prepaid card
Press 6 to order a food delivery
Press 7 to call a cab service
Press 8 to order from Octopart
Press 9 to check-in on Foursquare

16. At a phone booth
0
Say or input the person's first name with #
Mark(6275#)
Multiple entries found
press 1 for Mark Chen
press 2 for Mark Arefyev
...
(to be continued...)

17. Benefit
User: 411+ Business:
access phone book lean startup
no need for short development cycle
coins easy depolyment
get help in
new revenue stream
emergency

18. Thank you, (potential) sponsors!