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   hate that too

   

   lor, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 5:15am

   
   

   but honestly can t get that mad because it s one of the various things one can hate about a motorola like, took them 2 years to substitute a defected telephone with one costing less (the previous was out of production).Then, after just one week battery life halved and six months on the exterior is so deteriorated that looks like a toy plastic phone. Having had one of the first tacs model (the one with the handle weighing some 5 kilos) and the classic microtac, wonder how they got to this point.

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   hans, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 5:42am

   
   

   This is how battery-operated home smoke-detectors have always worked. They give a very brief chirp every few minutes, not long enough or frequently enough to figure out which one of the several smoke detectors in close proximity in your house is causing it. And the batteries ALWAYS seem to choose to die at 3:00 AM.

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   second most stupid cell phone design feature

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 6:09am

   
   

   The phone who's scheduled alarm actually turns the phone on to ring the alarm.
   
   If I turn the phone off, I shouldn't have to pull the batter to mean it.

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   How to find a phone ...

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 7:12am

   
   

   As an avid Motorola user I can tell you that this feature can be turned off ... just as the flashing light ( saves battery ).
   
   And what an idiot ... he didn't have to " triangulate " every 4 minutes.
   If the doofus would have just dialed his cell phone he would have found it faster ...
   
   I know every time I lose my phone ( @ least once a week ) ... this is how I locate it.

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   Re: How to find a phone ...

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 7:16am

   
   

   Correction: Scanned the article quickly and did not realise the guy lived in a canyon without reception.

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   Re: How to find a phone ...

   

   Munich, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 8:32am

   
   

   This is exactly what I thought when I read the article, so the canyon thing makes sense.
   
   Haven't we all had this happen to us before with various devices? And there are so many gadgets that beep when running low, sometimes I don't know WHICH device is doing the beeping. On time there was this annoying beeping coming from SOMETHING and I had to triangulate it down to my wife's Blackberry - annoying as hell.
   

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   Re: How to find a phone ...

   

   Michael M, Sep 18th, 2003 @ 3:23pm

   
   

   Actually the canyon thing doesn't make sense. If he lived somewhere where there was no reception, why keep the phone turned on at all?

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   Re: How to find a phone ...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 19th, 2003 @ 6:36am

   
   

   People with lives DO turn their phones off in the middle of the night.

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   Re: How to find a phone ...

   

   dave, Mar 29th, 2004 @ 6:46am

   
   

   soon this new idea could be the answer
   www.phoneRadar.com/
   chao Dave Doyle Torquay

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    if someone does not answer the phone

    

    alison kayla bleiweiss, Dec 13th, 2005 @ 4:57pm

    
    

    hi when i call someone they don't answer the phone and i get there answering machine that makes me angry

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    if i get the answering machine

    

    alison kayla bleiweiss, Dec 13th, 2005 @ 4:58pm

    
    

    hi when i call someone they don't answer the phone and i get there answering machine i just leave a messege and hope they call back
    

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