Very bad news indeed

[Gromit]

Oh dear.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7050576. stm

[4GS]

This is a wind up right?
either that, or I've woken up and it's April Fools day?

[squarebear]

Why would it be a wind-up? Technology moves forward all the time. It was only a matter of time before something like that was developed.

[dot.hawkes]

oh my God!!!!!!!!!!
I have just been talking to Bez about this and she didnl;t know what airplane mode meant on her mobile, she thought it was cos her phone opened up like airplane wings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weeal]

why would it be bad news?

the phone I have has a 'flight mode' option for use, or so I thought, on planes

[tubeway]

why bad news?

hello - yes i'm in the plane - sorry i will shout louder - is that better !!!!

[weeal]

lol
yes but at least the phone could be used for texting messages, takin photos, or browsing the web/email etc

[China Doll]

Sigh... I think I should be allowed to smoke on European flights if they're going to do that!

[vehelpfulguy]

I wonder when we will hear about the first case of "air rage" when a passenger attacks the person next to him who has been on the phone the whole trip....

"Yes I am just flying over Switzerland"

[libertie]

Maybe, like some trains, they need to have separate areas...those wishing to use their phones can sit on the wings!

[VillageVicar]

Many years ago when I commuted, I was becoming increasingly exasperated by the person sitting next to me demonstrating to all and sundry that he had in his possession a mobile phone (brick at the time). I wasn�t even sure some times whether the person was actually having a conversation as much as being a poser.
I finally got the idea of packing a pair of toenail clippers in my briefcase. The day finally came when this exasperatingly tacky man sat next to me and decided he wanted to broadcast throughout the carriage how self-obsessed he was with himself. I received my cue when he started talking about share prices. I quietly opened my briefcase, pulled out the clippers, set the case on the floor, pulled off my shoe and sock and proceeded to dig and clip at my big toe. The man was absolutely aghast! He paused from his monotonous and languid soliloquy and looking down at me said in a very loud voice �Do You Mind?!� As I leant over my lap I turned my head towards him and said �revoltingly tacky, isn�t it sir? Almost as tacky as disturbing all of us rail-prisoners with your incessant droning on about your self-importance.� He shut the phone off and I immediately stopped my digit dig and put my sock and shoe back on.

I saw him again two days later as he got on the train. I couldn�t resist from saying �silence is golden� as he passed the empty seat beside me and moved to the next carriage.

Fr Bill

[blondie123]

surely they wont allow mobiles to be used as a mobile phone can be used to detonate a bomb?!?

[SKA]

On the way to Prague I had my phone on flight mode and I was takng pictures - the view was too nice!
Is that allowed?

[carolegif]

If someone does have a banal conversation on a mobile phone on a plane, you can't even take it off them and throw it out the window!!!!

I friend of mine when sitting near a phone bore on a train or in a cafe, joins in the conversation, or comments on something that is said. Apparently they turn it off every time.

carolegif