6620 and travelling on a Plane

Does anyone know of a Symbian OS 60 aplet that just turns off the RF
on the phone?

It's great to have all these tools, games and features but when you
get on a plane to travel for many hours it blows that you have to turn
off the phone and all the applications as well.

The Pocket PC 2003 allows you to turn off just the phone RF and still
use the device.

Suggestions? Thanks in advance...

Glen

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:50:04 -0700, Glen Scymanski wrote:

> Does anyone know of a Symbian OS 60 aplet that just turns off the RF
> on the phone?

That phone does NOT have a flight-mode, i.e. the RF side of it can't be
turned of separately, not even with software.

> It's great to have all these tools, games and features but when you get
> on a plane to travel for many hours it blows that you have to turn off
> the phone and all the applications as well.

Buy a PDA and/or a Gameboy.

> The Pocket PC 2003 allows you to turn off just the phone RF and still
> use the device.
>
> Suggestions? Thanks in advance...

AFAIK the only series-60 Nokia that has flight-mode is the nGage.

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Michael Turner
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:10:53 +0100, michael turner wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:50:04 -0700, Glen Scymanski wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a Symbian OS 60 aplet that just turns off the RF
>> on the phone?
>
> That phone does NOT have a flight-mode, i.e. the RF side of it can't be
> turned of separately, not even with software.

PS.

Even if these phones did have a flight-mode, I definately wouldn't use
them on a plane. Someone sees you playing with a mobile-phone during a
flight, how do they know it's in flight-mode ? Could be quite difficult to
convince the cabin-crew and other passengers, and may lead to an awkward
situation.

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Michael Turner
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"Glen Scymanski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Does anyone know of a Symbian OS 60 aplet that just turns off the RF
> on the phone?
>
> It's great to have all these tools, games and features but when you
> get on a plane to travel for many hours it blows that you have to turn
> off the phone and all the applications as well.
>
> The Pocket PC 2003 allows you to turn off just the phone RF and still
> use the device.
>
> Suggestions? Thanks in advance...

This one has been discussed time and time again. It doesn't really matter
whether you can turn off the RF on the phone or not, the simple fact of
the matter is flight crew don't know and don't care - if they see any
device that even looks like a phone, you will be asked to turn it off, end
of story.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Glen Scymanski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Does anyone know of a Symbian OS 60 aplet that just turns off the RF
> > on the phone?
> >
> > It's great to have all these tools, games and features but when you
> > get on a plane to travel for many hours it blows that you have to turn
> > off the phone and all the applications as well.
> >
> > The Pocket PC 2003 allows you to turn off just the phone RF and still
> > use the device.
> >
> > Suggestions? Thanks in advance...
>
> This one has been discussed time and time again. It doesn't really matter
> whether you can turn off the RF on the phone or not, the simple fact of
> the matter is flight crew don't know and don't care - if they see any
> device that even looks like a phone, you will be asked to turn it off, end
> of story.
>
> Ivor


Well alrighty then...the phone stays off! Thanks!