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Mobile Phones That Go Beep In The Night
from the ouch dept
A very amusing (though, not if you lived it) recap of someone who now hates his Motorola phone after having it wake him up in the middle of the night with a warning beep that the battery was dying. Apparently, the phone is set to make that warning beep every 4 minutes. The owner of the phone has no clue where the phone is, and has to gradually triangulate the phone's location in four minute intervals when all he wants to do is go back to sleep. It's these sorts of features that sound good on paper, but aren't always that carefully thought through.
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hate that too
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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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
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 ...
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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Correction: Scanned the article quickly and did not realise the guy lived in a canyon without reception.
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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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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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People with lives DO turn their phones off in the middle of the night.
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if someone does not answer the phone
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
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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Re: How to find a phone ...
soon this new idea could be the answer
www.phoneRadar.com/
chao Dave Doyle Torquay
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