charlie: I have a dumbphone so I can’t do that, but I’m curious, is there a way to keep calls from interrupting you during davening? Even if you silence the phone don’t you still get on screen alerts?
Sure there is. It’s called the off button. And it anyone says “But I have the davening on my Blackberry/Ipod/Whatever” I would say “We have something very low tech that will help. It’s called a Siddur.”