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This is why a real OFF button is a good idea.
by irafreight - 9/10/07 8:58 AMTell people not to email you when you travel abroad.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzappl0908,0,2929341.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines
Who's going to pick the tab for all these JesusPhone fees?
(NT) Who has the record monthly bill? (4,800 so far?)
by R. Proffitt
- 9/10/07 9:09 AM
In reply to: This is why a real OFF button is a good idea. by irafreight
Another solution
by LunaticSX - 9/10/07 10:24 PM In reply to: This is why a real OFF button is a good idea. by irafreightI'm flying to London on Wednesday. I'm just going to pop the SIM card out of my iPhone. There's tons of free Wi-Fi in London now (see http://londonist.com/2007/05/free_wifi_in_lo.php), and I'm staying at the house of a friend who has Wi-Fi.
A few years ago I bought a cheap, tiny, pre-paid mobile phone to use for local calls while I was in the U.K. I just bring that with me for voice communication (I barely talk on the phone at all--I use SMS about four times as much in the U.K. as I do in the States, though, even though I only know a fraction of the number of people there).
Once iPhone unlocking becomes more readily available I'll just unlock my iPhone and swap the SIM. If I could find someone who could do the SuperSIM unlock for me on this trip I'd use that. By the time I go over again in April I'm sure I'll be able to get my iPhone unlocked and I'll retire my little "travel phone."
FWIW, before I was able to get a pe-paid phone in the U.K. without having a permanent address there, I was renting mobile phones on my visits as far back as 2000. Total cost was less than the cost of the available multi-band phones of the time, plus roaming charges. I've never understood why people have been willing to pay those outrageous roaming charges. I guess most people just aren't too savvy about the alternatives, and/or they don't want to use an alternate "travel number" and feel they just HAVE to be reachable on their own number (to anyone local at their destination, though, their number remains an international call).
Lun Esex
Aircraft mode or whatever it was called
by Nicholas Buenk - 9/10/07 10:30 PM In reply to: This is why a real OFF button is a good idea. by irafreightThat should turn off all the devices wireless abilities.
Why do you need an off button again? 
Airplane mode turns off Wi-Fi
by LunaticSX - 9/10/07 11:24 PM In reply to: Aircraft mode or whatever it was called by Nicholas BuenkUnfortunately, Airplane mode turns off the Wi-Fi, as well.
There's a setting to turn off Wi-Fi, but no comparable setting to turn off EDGE/GPRS.
Lun Esex
Well what can I say..
by Nicholas Buenk - 9/11/07 12:46 AM In reply to: Airplane mode turns off Wi-Fi by LunaticSXNokia N800
by tashman - 9/11/07 6:38 AM In reply to: This is why a real OFF button is a good idea. by irafreightThe nokia n800 has an offline mode where everything wireless is turned off but the rest of the unit continues to work. It also has two online modes one that will constantly try and connect to wifi and one that is basically manual.
If the iphone really doesn't have a way to shutdown the constant hunting then poo poo on apple.
tim
It's called "Airplane mode" on the iPhone
by LunaticSX - 9/11/07 4:03 PM In reply to: Nokia N800 by tashmanThe iPhone has the same thing, as discussed uptopic.
Lun Esex
You can also turn the iPhone all the way off
by acedtect
- 9/11/07 4:14 PM
In reply to: Nokia N800 by tashman
I just did a video on how to make sure it's really off and not just the screen that's dark.
http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-29152.html
Turning it off!!!
by amaechi - 9/11/07 4:24 PM In reply to: You can also turn the iPhone all the way off by acedtect
Do they realize that many smart phones use the same button for screen sleep and off? It's not just Apple Molly!!! My treos, all of them that i've owned work the same way. You press the red power button once to put the screen to sleep, and then you press and hold to actually turn the radio off. And same with my macbook, mac mini, and macpro-- in fact all macs that i've owned. Pressing the power buttons for different amounts of time will do different things from putting the screen to sleep, to actually sleeping the computer, to turning the computer off. I don't know about Windows computers, but I believe they work similarly.
And I take umbrage with Molly's tone moreso than the content her ridiculous rants (of which I'm not the biggest fan either). The tone when she criticized the button issue--compared to Tom's tone when he (similarly) criticized the same (alleged) problem?
C'mon, Turn it off please!
Why I like my windows smartphone
by RroydRoar - 9/11/07 11:23 PM In reply to: This is why a real OFF button is a good idea. by irafreightI can set it to not sync when roaming. I can also add 3rd party applications and add my own ringtones. It just works.
You do realize...
by LunaticSX - 9/12/07 4:18 AM In reply to: Why I like my windows smartphone by RroydRoar...that all of that (now) applies to the iPhone, as well? (Sync has always been able to be turned off, and the rest has been done by third parties, besides Apple now offering ringtones [which are still cheaper than the $2.50 ringtones offered by the carriers on other phones].)
Lun Esex
Why the fuss?
by rich_jtg - 9/12/07 12:30 PM In reply to: You do realize... by LunaticSXI can't see what the fuss is about the off button... most phones I've owned, even the most basic ones, have different functions available depending on how (or who long) you press the main on/off button.
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