On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Mike (mwester) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And pulling the battery out too (no current user-space images of which > I am aware actually power down the GSM, so if you aren't pulling out > the battery, you're not in "airplane mode"!!) Most consumer electronics in this category don't really power down, even if you press the physical "power off" button. A tiny bit of the system is still running to do miscellaneous stuff. ARM9 processors like the one in the OpenMoko have a sleep mode that freezes the system state, but it's otherwise "on". I have always wondered about the real reason behind asking people to turn off phones during take off and landing. Recently I heard that it's actually only one of the cases that matters, I think it was landing. Once I forgot that I had dropped my phone in my backpack even before leaving out for the airport and I realised this only when I arrived at my final destination. I wondered how often that kind of thing happens to people all over the world. Marcelo
