Is my phone smarter than me?

[AndyRM]

Top man My phones not smarter than you

Happy to be of service, I had some issues getting to grips with my HTC One. After 6 (or more) months I still discover new things!

 

[Markymark]

My phone was smarter than me when
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[postman]

I've suspected for some time that there are a large number of phones out there smarter than their users...

I am one of them.

 

[SteCenturion]

I've suspected for some time that there are a large number of phones out there smarter than their users...

Through the 70's & 80's my parents had a phone you stuck your finger in & twizzed round & it was/is still smarter than me.

Edit.

See, I didn't even see @swee'pea99 post.

Proof enough.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Through the 70's & 80's my parents had a phone you stuck your finger in & twizzed round

I used to use one of those . They were a pain to dial numbers with.

 

[subaqua]

I used to use one of those . They were a pain to dial numbers with.

and took longer to dial the number 9 than the number 1 , but we ended up with 999 as the emergency number !

 

[Soltydog]

Happy to be of service, I had some issues getting to grips with my HTC One. After 6 (or more) months I still discover new things!

Had mine 8 months & still not sure about it, should have maybe stuck with the iphone. I used to use the alarm, but after an update a month or so back, the alarm doesnt now sound if the phone is turned off Any ideas on that

 

[AndyRM]

Had mine 8 months & still not sure about it, should have maybe stuck with the iphone. I used to use the alarm, but after an update a month or so back, the alarm doesnt now sound if the phone is turned off Any ideas on that

Assuming by update you mean Kit Kat, for whatever reason they removed that feature. If you're trying to conserve battery life, stick it Flight Mode - the alarm should still work.

 

[Cycleops]

I use the Nokia C1 as an ICE phone when out on long rides. Simple to use for anyone who may come across me if injured & a decent battery life

Just hope you keep a clean pair of undies on too!

 

[surfdude]

my phone thought it was smarter than me and kept behaving badly and p**ing me off . it wasn't smart enough to realise how much it was pi**ing me off until i beat it to death with a big hammer . oh it felt so good . little git can rest in phone hell

 

[subaqua]

[QUOTE 3174564, member: 259"]But didn't they do that deliberately - to make it least likely to be dialed by mistake, but still easy to remember?[/QUOTE]
dunno , I bet some twot wasn't thinking properly when they came up with the number

 

[classic33]

dunno , I bet some twot wasn't thinking properly when they came up with the number

Seems like a fair amount of thought went into it.
"History
First introduced in the London area on 30 June 1937, the UK's 999 number is the world's oldest emergency call service. The system was introduced following a fire on 10 November 1935 in a house on Wimpole Street in which five women were killed. A neighbour had tried to telephone the fire brigade and was so outraged at being held in a queue by the Welbeck telephone exchange that he wrote a letter to the editor of The Times, which prompted a government inquiry.

The initial scheme covered a 12-mile radius around Oxford Circus and the public were advised only to use it in ongoing emergency if "for instance, the man in the flat next to yours is murdering his wife or you have seen a heavily masked cat burglar peering round the stack pipe of the local bank building." The first arrest – for burglary – took place a week later and the scheme was extended to major cities after World War II and then to the whole UK in 1976.

The 9-9-9 format was chosen based on the 'button A' and 'button B' design of pre-payment coin-operated public payphones in wide use (first introduced in 1925) which could be easily modified to allow free use of the 9 digit on the rotary dial in addition to the 0 digit (then used to call the operator), without allowing free use of numbers involving other digits; other combinations of free call 9 and 0 were later used for more purposes, including multiples of 9 (to access exchanges before STD came into use) as a fail-safe for attempted emergency calls, e.g. 9 or 99, reaching at least an operator.

As it happens, the choice of 999 was fortunate for accessibility reasons, compared with e.g. lower numbers: in the dark or in dense smoke, 999 could be dialled by placing a finger one hole away from the dial stop (see the articles on Rotary dial and GPO telephones) and rotating the dial to the full extent three times. This enables all users including the visually impaired to easily dial the emergency number. It is also the case that it is relatively easy for 111, and other low-number sequences, to be dialled accidentally, including when transmission wires making momentary contact produce a pulse similar to dialling (e.g. when overhead cables touch in high winds)."

 

[Pat "5mph"]

No worries @Soltydog I had the same problem with my HTC, you're smart.
Not smarter than me, though, because I sorted the problem myself

 

[biggs682]

I've suspected for some time that there are a large number of phones out there smarter than their users...

i know mine is as it remembers all the special dates i need to remember .......... but dont

 

[Deleted member 1258]

After years on basic phones, my last one was a Nokia folder, I've just brought a Galaxy fame, its not a phone its a computer, the phone bit seems to have been added on as an afterthought, its full of all sots of things I'm unlikely to use and its almost certainly smarter than I am.