N-gage on the plane?

i think that that is a very good thing (the offline mode)... people are not ok with this feature yet. they saw the nokia logo on n-gage and say thats a phone and that i can't use it in the plane. i show them that it is not a phone anymore after i switched to offline mode, but most of the don't believe me. I think i will carry a scientist or engineer in my pocet that if someone says me something, he/she will explain it for me 😊

Yeah I was gunna say set it to offline mode. I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem with it anyway's if they do just show them that its not connected etc. The last time I was on the plane so stupid women were in front taking pictures with their phones out of the windows and the staff said nothing.

Hopefully i wont find any problems when using my fone on the plane in a couple of weeks!
I could hack a 3 hour flight without my ngage!

I travel on the planes a lot and most of the time the people manning the plane understand. The best is when you have a really frightened passenger on the plane sitting next to you. There face as you slowly pull out the n-gage turn it on and start playing tony hawk. This passenger next to me nearly had a heart attack she shouted at me "are you crazy we are all gonna die" and grabed the n-gage. The passengers around us got freaked out and thought i was carrying a bomb so they started moving away. Then the steward came up to me and I gingerly showed the n-gage. Everything was quickly sorted and after that as you can guess i was not allowed to turn on the n-gage.

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Originally posted by Shadow12
I travel on the planes a lot and most of the time the people manning the plane understand. The best is when you have a really frightened passenger on the plane sitting next to you. There face as you slowly pull out the n-gage turn it on and start playing tony hawk. This passenger next to me nearly had a heart attack she shouted at me "are you crazy we are all gonna die" and grabed the n-gage. The passengers around us got freaked out and thought i was carrying a bomb so they started moving away. Then the steward came up to me and I gingerly showed the n-gage. Everything was quickly sorted and after that as you can guess i was not allowed to turn on the n-gage.

Lol.. One more story to tell when you'll be a grandpa 😃

I would have thought that Offline mode would still be not allowed due to the fact that you can still listen to the radio on and thus there's a radio signal active, which might as well be having a phone signal active.

I would have thought that Offline mode would still be not allowed due to the fact that you can still listen to the radio on and thus there's a radio signal active, which might as well be having a phone signal active.

You can still listen to the radio in offline mode because it doesn't need to connect to your network, the radio uses normal static radio waves, it doesnt require any satelite to connect to. A radio signal is different to a phone signal.

some planes even have radios built into the arm rests.

True never thought of radio.
I usualy mostly use my n-gage to watch movies or play games and mabe read a book or two.

As I have said I have traveled so many times I have had quite a few incidents. I wont go into great detail but these are three other events that happened to me.

I was about 15 and traveling alone and I was drinking some coke and listening to discman, I didnt notice we were comming up to a second magnetic detector and x-ray machine(The first was where they checked my ticket). I kept walking instead of stopping I just walked right through the alarm went off and I was accosted by 4 people. They didnt push me to the floor or anything but just stripped me of everything but my clothes in seconds. Coke in the bin, bag through the x-ray machine discman through xray machine. I was shocked as hell. I know you probably say how the hell i missed the check point i dont know.

Another time I was at athens airport and was having my bag put through the xray machine and they opened it and picked out my pencil case and said my pencils were too sharp and i said break the tips and she said no you have a pencil sharpener we will just take your pencils. It was fair to say that it was a few weeks after 9/11.

Other time I was pulled over and the checked my bag for explosives with this special machine and when they didnt find any they checked for explosive residue.

Guess i look like a terrorist!

Just for additional info, the frequency of the radio waves being used by mobile phones can interefere with the plane's navigational system and doesnt do any potential harm to the plane's internal electronics and stuff. The only possible outcome? Getting lost in the air! Hehehe... but I dont think a single phone can do this, it should take a couple of passengers simultaneusly using their roaming-capable phones to jam the plane's VOR, GPS, or the DME. And in my case, I dont like the cabin crew to act nosy or pick on me just because they dont know how the n-gage functions. I give them the benefit of the doubt, I just keep my phone sitting soundly in my pocket. 😎

sunday i was on the plane and i was coming back to Istanbul fromLondon and i was playing tony hawk. anybody said nothing at first. But an English old woman and a Turkish old guy (i think they are married) started yelling at me. I said it is in offline mode but saying that is something like telling how a sattelite works to a 3 years old child. They make the crew told that i must shut it down. then they call the secuity guy, he came and said that i must shut it down. I really don't understand these people 😃

Originally posted by cuddlers89
You can still listen to the radio in offline mode because it doesn't need to connect to your network, the radio uses normal static radio waves, it doesnt require any satelite to connect to. A radio signal is different to a phone signal.

some planes even have radios built into the arm rests.

Yeah I know you can still listen to it. Most planes now have radios in them but from what I can remember but I'm pretty sure they tell you not to use any radio equipment. Some airlines won't even allow you use battery powered devices like CD players.

It varies from airline to airline, one told me i was alouded to use my laptop on the plane, so i played a game of pinball, others don't let me listen to my cd player.

Maybe this could works: when you take the plane, bring them the n-gage manual, and let them read the offline mode page.

shadow 12 you should make a book and call it "my adventure with my gadgets"😃

When I get more funny stories like those i will! lol

Originally posted by Gobelet
Maybe this could works: when you take the plane, bring them the n-gage manual, and let them read the offline mode page.

yes that can work... but if they listen 😃

Ok, to settle this once and for all, you guys have to check with the airline if using your "offline" mobile phones would be fine. I work at the airport as a check-in agent and I know that some airlines do not allow the operation of any electronic device while on flight. Take note: electronic device is a general term. It encompasses all battery-operated gadgets from mobile phones to laptops.

Well, unless you really want to make a scene inside the cabin and insist that an offline n-gage is fine, its up to you. 😉