I was just thinking that on a device like this they definitely need to implement and airplane mode like they have on Siemens mobiles and like they have available on 3650/7250 through some third party software (don't remember which). Otherwise what good is a portable gaming device if you can't use it.
Any word from Nokia on this?
Yes, there's a flight mode. Atleast thats what I read from somewhere I cant rememver right now...
Yeah now try explaining to the flight attendand what "flight mode" is ;-(
Who seriously thinks a flight attendant will know that the "gameboy thingie" you are using is actually a phone... I was actually just being a concerned citizen, although I have been known to use a cell phone on board a plane.
[quote="Anonymous"]Yeah now try explaining to the flight attendand what "flight mode" is ;-([/quote]
That's EXACTLY the point, I have a 7650 with Systemtools intalled. I took a plane last month and when I was playing Zelda the flight attendant came to me to tell me to switch the phone off, then I told her the phone was on flight mode and I showed her the SIM card. Well...
She looked at me like: "Shut the fuck off and turn that device off right this second", you know with that sweet smile they have...
And that I did, so Flight Mode is kinda useless 😃
[quote="Kirill"]Who seriously thinks a flight attendant will know that the "gameboy thingie" you are using is actually a phone... [/quote]
They allow using laptop computers too, where you could have internally e.g. a Bluetooth / GPRS / WLAN chip.
I have used the SE P800 many times in airplanes and they have believed when I've told that my phone's switched to radio off mode.
Tero
SEMC now have a formal agreement in place with SAS regarding the P800's flight mode, which is a start!
n-gage *does* have a flight mode (or at least the current firmware does anyway)
the difference is that the p800 looks like a PDA, the n-gage looks like a gameboy and the 6600 looks like a phone... PDA's and gameboy's are allowed on planes, phones are not....
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Both the N-Gage AND the N-Gage QD have a "flight" mode... Simply give the power button a quick press and select "Offline." This option is hard-wired into the game deck and turns the game deck on, but switches off all radio communications, including bluetooth.
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I've never had any problems using "flight" mode on the various devices that I've owned over the years... Just a quick explanation (about "flight" mode) and I'm free to continue as normal!