Is my phone smarter than me?

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My phone was smarter than me when
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Soltydog

Soltydog

Legendary Member
Location
near Hornsea
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 :sad: Any ideas on that ^_^
 

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
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 :sad: 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

Legendary Member
Location
Accra, Ghana
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!
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
[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

Leg End Member
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)."
 
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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.
 
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