Mobile phone enabled Palm organisers

G'day all,

Whats the deal with using there in flight?
Can the phone function be turned off

"Carsten Bauer" <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> G'day all,
>
> Whats the deal with using there in flight?
> Can the phone function be turned off

most can be, my motorolla accompli can have the phone part switched off, and
be used only as an orginiser

Carsten Bauer <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in
news:updc41h9vcb9jr7ak801r1012puv03u3lf@4ax.com:
> G'day all,
> Whats the deal with using there in flight?
> Can the phone function be turned off

She Who Must Be Obeyed just got a Palm Treo 650. Interesting
bit of kit, and yeah, the telephone part can be turned off
independant of the Palm Pilot (aviation reference!) part.

Experience and anecdotal evidence suggests that the device
might have a genetic (ie: they all have it) problem with the
microphone though. People talking on one can't be heard with
any degree of reliability.

Otherwise, SWMBO swears by it.

GB

> Carsten Bauer <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in
> news:updc41h9vcb9jr7ak801r1012puv03u3lf@4ax.com:
>> G'day all,
>> Whats the deal with using there in flight?
>> Can the phone function be turned off


Can't use them at any time. Cause they are "capable" of transmission, they
come under the same rules as mobiles. That's the rules on QF group
aeroplanes anyway.

rgds, dm

Overspeed wrote:

>> Carsten Bauer <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in
>> news:updc41h9vcb9jr7ak801r1012puv03u3lf@4ax.com:
>>> G'day all,
>>> Whats the deal with using there in flight?
>>> Can the phone function be turned off
>
>
> Can't use them at any time. Cause they are "capable" of transmission, they
> come under the same rules as mobiles. That's the rules on QF group
> aeroplanes anyway.

So what happens with notebook computers and pda's that have WiFi networking
transmitters? And most do these days...

G-S

They usually have a physical switch or function key combination to turn
the transceiver on or off.

"Carsten Bauer" <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> G'day all,
>
> Whats the deal with using there in flight?
> Can the phone function be turned off

My XDAIIs (i-mate, pda2k) has an "In Flight Mode" which shuts down the half
of the phone that is used for GSM and only the PDA half operates.

Airlines can now buy a device which will allow mobile phones to be used in
planes :) Who knows if this will become standard or only certain airlines
will take advantage of the new technology :)
Dunno how it technically works :) Just know its available.....
Doesn't answer your question, but just my two cents worth :)
http://www.w2forum.com/item/mobile_p...ontract_signed

"Carsten Bauer" <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> G'day all,
>
> Whats the deal with using there in flight?
> Can the phone function be turned off

"GC" <mobaccREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message
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> Airlines can now buy a device which will allow mobile phones to be used in
> planes :) Who knows if this will become standard or only certain
> airlines
> will take advantage of the new technology :)
> Dunno how it technically works :) Just know its available.....
> Doesn't answer your question, but just my two cents worth :)
> http://www.w2forum.com/item/mobile_p...ontract_signed
>

Singapore Airlines is installing stuff that will do this for GSM phones on
its planes over the next year.

It has already started rolling out in-flight Wi-Fi for web-browsing and
email. Every seat (including economy class) gets a power point for powering
a notebook PC. Cost: About $20 for a long-haul flight or about $7 for an
hour of service. SIA is using Boeing's in-air Internet/sat tracking
technology.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:33:16 +0800, Carsten Bauer <spam@iinet.net.au>
wrote:

>G'day all,
>
>Whats the deal with using there in flight?
>Can the phone function be turned off

Thanks for all the responses.

Carsten Bauer <spam@iinet.net.au> wrote in
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> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:33:16 +0800, Carsten Bauer <spam@iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
>>G'day all,
>>Whats the deal with using there in flight?
>>Can the phone function be turned off
> Thanks for all the responses.

Further to my previous comments about the microphone problem
with the Palm Treo 650...

After further analysis, it seems that the problem was not
with the microphone, but rather with the interface between
the chair and the keyboard. SWMBO had been putting it in to
speakerphone mode for each and every call, and the phone
drops into a dodgy semi-simplex mode when you do that.

(This does suggest that it's pretty much useless as a
speakerphone, but as a regular telephone, it's quite good
after a bit of operator training!).

GB