phones should have a “timed off” button, e.g.:
you hit “off” and it says “off”. If you leave it more than 2 seconds it turns off. If you press the off button again, it reads “off: 0:30″ you can use up and down to change the value, hit off to go through 0:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 4:00 6:00 8:00 0:00 when you leave the controls for more than 2 seconds it goes off for that amount of time. Great for cinema, meetings, snoozes, 8-hours sleep…
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What a good idea.
Did you go to the cinema, then forget to turn your phone back on? :)
Good idea. I suggest you patent it now.
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I went to the cinema, and assumed I was going to forget to turn it on again, and invented that feature.
‘course what I really want is a phone that comes with source code and cross-compiler… ho hum…
My PocketPC came with a SIM card attachment thingy so you can use it as a mobile. And Visual Studio has a compiler to let you write programs for the PDA.
Sounds cool, Me, except for 3 things
1) PocketPC
2) Visual Basic
3) I doubt that they’d give you an API to drive telephony as I imagine it would open up a can o’ worms on their security front.
I’m not that serious about 1 and 2 above, but I’m not yet sold on the PDA=phone concept. Maybe I’ll come round when my Nokia 3310 actually physically collapses.
I just looked and my phone has ‘timed profiles’. So you can set to divert or silent or whatever and set an expiry time.
Looks like they beat you to it unless there’s a subtle nuance I missed.
it wouldn’t surprise me if they had beat me to it… but oes yours work with a single key (think of “timer record” on the VCR)
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