Mobile Phones on planes
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Re: Mobile Phones on planes
Check-In Agent: Sir, would you like a Texting seat or Non-Texting seat?
Passenger: What is the difference?
CIA: Texting seats are located towards the rear of the aircraft, starting at row 82.
Pax: Non-texting, please. If the cravings start I will walk down the back to satisfy my urging.
CIA: Very well sir, a forward seat it is. Now would you like reclining or non-reclining?
Pax: What is the difference?
CIA: Non-reclining on the left and reclining on the right of the aircraft.
Pax: Non-reclining please. If the cravings start, I will cross the aisle and find a spare seat to satisfy my urging.
CIA: Very well sir, AB or C it is. Now would like onions with your salad?
Pax: What's the difference?
CIA: Onions are only served in the mini-cabin ahead of row 35.
Pax: Non-onion salad please.
CIA: Very well, aft of row 35 it is. Now would you like working or non-working IFE?
Pax: What is the difference?
CIA: Non-working gets you on any of our scheduled flights. Working means we have to transfer you to the Singapore Airlines flight.
I personally would love sms and email (via blackberry) on flights - if i want peace I can turn them off. I understand other people's reluctance for phones on planes. I have other refuges from phones - on my bike cycling, walking the dogs, in bed and I spend more time doing all of those than flying.
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If I want peace, can I turn off your blackberry too?
Hopefully they'll ask people to set alarms for incoming messages (and eventually calls) to vibrate or silent.
Anyone hazard a guess on how long between the introduction of mobile phone use on flights and the first report of "rage against the mobile phone user"?
Well, sadly it's become a case of something we just have to learn to live with. If people are prepared to talk on their mobiles even in the cinema now, when they KNOW they're being rude and shouldn't be doing it, I think it's a lost cause.
If I want peace, can I turn off your blackberry too?
< rant >Only if I can tell your screaming kids to get down the back of the bus, ask you to have a shower because you smell, kick the door in on you in the loo when you take 45 mins to brush your teeth, slap you on the hand every time you lean on my seat and throw you off the plane when you sit in the wrong seat and tell me it doesnt matter we are all going to be getting there at the same time anyway. < / rant >
Blackerries have to be one of the most inoffensive devices on planes - aside from a tick tick noise when I am typing a message or playing brick bat the only thing the little bitca does is flash red when I have a message - quite quite they are annoying to other pax I dont understand - they are just like a nagging old woman chasing me for things but making no sound.
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What would be interesting is if you had a high speed data packet session and were able to route VOIP calls over the system some how. That would interesting seeing the cabin crew running around trying to work out how you could make a voice call through the data only network.
What would be interesting is if you had a high speed data packet session and were able to route VOIP calls over the system some how. That would interesting seeing the cabin crew running around trying to work out how you could make a voice call through the data only network.[
Bit like people using skype through the boeing connection - I havent heard many stories of onboard skype rage...
My Nokia E60 already has a SIP client, but you could install an alternative as well i would imagine, not sure how the CPU would cope but the native SIP client must work so...
I woud be happy just to get email & sms.
Everybody makes valid points about the annoying factor of SMS alert tone etc though. Ok if i was awake, would be rather annoying it attepting to sleep as i usually do.
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