{"id":2438,"date":"2003-01-14T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=209"},"modified":"2003-01-14T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-15T00:05:00","slug":"freezing-to-death-while-microsoft-phone-boots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/01\/14\/freezing-to-death-while-microsoft-phone-boots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing to death while Microsoft phone boots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.co.uk\/\">ZDNet UK<\/a> journalist fell and broke his leg on a skiing slope in the Alps. He <a href=\"http:\/\/comment.zdnet.co.uk\/story\/0,,t479-s2128519,00.html\">tried calling for help<\/a> on his brand-new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange.com\/spv\/\">Orange SPV<\/a> (running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mobile\/smartphone\/default.asp\">Microsoft SmartPhone 2002<\/a>) and&#8230; nothing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the SPV uses a typical Microsoft operating system&#8230; the SPV takes about a minute or so to boot up.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230;The next time I looked at the phone it appeared to have turned itself off &#8211; so I tried switching it on again. When it eventually came to life I could not get it to dial &#8211; a closer examination revealed the legend &#8216;Radio off&#8217; displayed very legibly on the SPV&#8217;s excellent screen. No amount of menu searching let me find anything that would turn the phone&#8217;s radio back on. At this point I remember making a few comments about the dubiousness of Bill Gates&#8217; parentage. I eventually managed to flag down a passing skier who let me use her Nokia phone (which switched on immediately) to call for help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nImagine jumping from an airplane and waiting while your Microsoft SmartChute boots up! \ud83d\ude06<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/\">Danny O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/entries\/2003\/01\/11#1042335360\">Oblomovka<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Cory Doctorow&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_01_01_archive.html#90182734\">Boing Boing<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ZDNet UK journalist fell and broke his leg on a skiing slope in the Alps. He tried calling for help on his brand-new Orange SPV (running Microsoft SmartPhone 2002) and&#8230; nothing. Since the SPV uses a typical Microsoft operating system&#8230; the SPV takes about a minute or so to boot up. &#8230;The next time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-Dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}