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- 02-13-2008, 06:00 PM #1Bert HymanGuest
Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
the radio.
Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN [email protected]
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- 02-13-2008, 06:21 PM #2Steve SobolGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
On 2008-02-14, Bert Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
> use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
> the radio.
>
> Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
> cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
Several do, like my wife's Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and my Nokia 6133. On the
other hand, both of our phones are also MP3 players, which probably played in
to Nokia's decision to implement flight mode...
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- 02-13-2008, 08:15 PM #3Todd AllcockGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
At 14 Feb 2008 00:00:03 +0000 Bert Hyman wrote:
> Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
> use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
> the radio.
>
> Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
> cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
>
I just picked up a cheap Samsung A437 for my son (games, camera, but no MP3
player) and was stunned to see it did have a flght mode!
- 02-14-2008, 03:25 AM #4DevilsPGDGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
In message <[email protected]> Bert Hyman
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
>use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
>the radio.
>
>Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
>cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
Some do, some have a half-assed approach, some have nothing. Sony, for
example, allows minimal media player functionality, but no PIM,
Calendar, photos, camera, or other functionality.
- 02-14-2008, 01:42 PM #5Andreas WenzelGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
Bert Hyman schrieb:
> Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
> use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
> the radio.
>
> Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
> cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
Good luck trying to explain the concept of "flight mode" to your
friendly flight attendant...
Andreas
- 02-14-2008, 04:31 PM #6nfrabbitGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:42:35 +0100, Andreas Wenzel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Bert Hyman schrieb:
>> Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
>> use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
>> the radio.
>>
>> Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
>> cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
>
>Good luck trying to explain the concept of "flight mode" to your
>friendly flight attendant...
>
>Andreas
>
Why do you say that? My phone as flight mode and I have never had any
trouble at all with using it on a plane.
- 02-14-2008, 04:48 PM #7Andreas WenzelGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
nfrabbit schrieb:
> [...]
> Why do you say that? My phone as flight mode and I have never had any
> trouble at all with using it on a plane.
Did they ask you to turn it off and were OK after you told them you had
flight mode enabled? My experience with flight attendants is, they have
their rules, the rule is "no cellphones" and - flight mode or not - they
keep insisting you turn it off.
Andreas
- 02-14-2008, 09:32 PM #8DevilsPGDGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
In message <[email protected]> Andreas Wenzel <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Bert Hyman schrieb:
>> Even my old Motorola V195 has a few games and functions I might want to
>> use if I'm desperately bored on a flight, but there's no way to turn off
>> the radio.
>>
>> Do newer non-PDA phones have a "flight mode" so that you can use their
>> cameras, MP3 players and the like while airborne?
>
>Good luck trying to explain the concept of "flight mode" to your
>friendly flight attendant...
This might depend on the airline, but I've actually been asked "is that
set to flight mode?" on AA. This was on what she thought was an iPhone
(actually an iPod Touch -- Which does have wifi, so the question was
valid)
- 02-15-2008, 07:44 AM #9Todd AllcockGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
At 14 Feb 2008 23:48:02 +0100 Andreas Wenzel wrote:
> Did they ask you to turn it off and were OK after you told them you
> had flight mode enabled? My experience with flight attendants is, they
> have their rules, the rule is "no cellphones" and - flight mode or not -
> they keep insisting you turn it off.
It's much better in the last year or so- on the last few flights I've been
on, they even mention "flight mode" in the pre-flight "rules speech."
- 02-15-2008, 09:49 AM #10nfrabbitGuest
Re: Flight mode on non-PDA phones?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:48:02 +0100, Andreas Wenzel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>nfrabbit schrieb:
>> [...]
>> Why do you say that? My phone as flight mode and I have never had any
>> trouble at all with using it on a plane.
>
>Did they ask you to turn it off and were OK after you told them you had
>flight mode enabled? My experience with flight attendants is, they have
>their rules, the rule is "no cellphones" and - flight mode or not - they
>keep insisting you turn it off.
>
>Andreas
I have never even been asked about it and I am positive that several
attendants have seen that I was using a cell phone to listen to music.
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