Quick note

[cyrano]

I got a new phone (planned obsolesence kicked in after a year and a half, and the speaker finally drew up its resignation notice in the old one) and the new one has all those neat gadgets like games and alarm rings and customised classical music rings. So my phone now rings with Sousa's Liberty Bell March.
I could have customised rings for various people but I'm just not feeling that geeky yet.

Comments

Re: obsolete has a purpose

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I got annoyed about not being able to call anyone when the power was out, so I have a plain old boring Sony phone next to me (well, it has a speakerphone in it, which is handy for those conference calls from work) which doesn't rely on the California ISO doing their jobs to do its job...

Re: obsolete has a purpose

[(Anonymous)]

Um. So. Stupid question maybe, but if there's a power outage does that mean that the towers that cel phones rely on are also kaput? Is the cel phone likely to be of any use in a forced-blackout situation?

Re: obsolete has a purpose

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I expect cell phones to work during blackouts, for the same reasons that ordinary phones work during a blackout: telephone companies invest heavily in UPS systems, batteries, and generators.