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Apple iPhone
By Jacob Cohen | January 11, 2007
The Apple iPhone is really cool. I just have one point I’m hoping Apple will have thought of before the phone is released to the public.
The phone needs to be usable as an entertainment device without having the phone portion enabled. Or rather, the phone portion needs to be able to be disabled explicitly. The reason? Airplanes.
I think it’d be really cool if you could bring your iPhone on the plane, and watch TV shows or movies on it during the flight, or listen to your music, without having it violate the federal regulations against having a cell phone turned on during the flight.
If they give you an option to turn the phone portion off (including the antennae or whatever that the FCC is worried about) while still using the rest of the device, then they’d have an all-new selling point for the phone. I imagine it would even generate additional business from nearby passengers who see someone watching a TV show and wonder what device it is.
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February 25th, 2007 at 11:43 am
The FCC is not worried about phones interfering with plane controls, as those have graduated far from the same frequencies now. (Due to data transmission instead of analog) Most cell phones don’t even work at altitudes due to no coverage. It’s a common courtesy to not have phones on while in the plane, which is why I think they still don’t want them used (along with new terrorism threats).
As far as the iPhone, I highly doubt apple will think of it.
peace,
-dan
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