08-07-2003, 08:13 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Mobile Phones Go Crash-Crash?
I've written up a little editorial piece over at Smartphone Thoughts about mobile phones crashing - go check it out if you're interested.
"Somewhere along the way, mobile phones became real computers, and when that happened, they started acting like computers: they crashed. Walk with me down this path...until the year 2000 (give or take a year), mobile phones were just that: phones. Sure, they might have had a game or two, and a few tried to include calendar functionality, but the vast majority of people used them as phones, nothing more. I've had various cell phones for over a decade now, and I don't remember any of my early cell phones crashing or locking up. They just worked, but they only did one thing: phone calls..."
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08-07-2003, 08:30 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 258
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Pocket PCs go crash-crash too! :mrgreen:
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08-07-2003, 08:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 32
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Or, in Asia, viruses are starting to show up. No doubt another Jihadi tactic to bring the Western world to its digital knees.
.rob
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08-07-2003, 09:34 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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I've had to reboot my nokia 3650 twice today. :grumble:
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08-07-2003, 09:49 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 113
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yup ..been there
My Nokia 3650 crapped out on me a few times in the last month.
This morning I couldn't make a call , because I had too many applications open and not enough free RAM. Thats the message I got when I hit the send button! Had to shutdown the phone and restart. :roll:
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08-07-2003, 10:07 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 68
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My first mobile phone to constantly crash or lock up was the Nokia 6210. My SE T68i has been acting funny since a recent firmware upgrade. Now it does all kinds of strange stuff. 
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08-07-2003, 10:26 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 69
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Well, maybe I'm just lucky. I've never had to reboot my T68i. I've been using it since the week it first came out. I use the T68i's features all the time. Not just making phone calls and never had a problem aside from the slow menu. I had recently upgraded the firmware to R8A. It's still going good. No crash to date.
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08-07-2003, 11:37 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 6
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I have a 7650 which I'm now selling as I settle down with my new SE P800 (iPaq will always be there though). The 7650 is almost identical software wise to the 3650. Anyway, both the 7650 and P800 crash occationally, but both ALWAYS accept incoming calls, sometimes the outgoing call feature dies, but incoming has never crashed, so worst case senario, I can still be contacted. Can the same be said of the Orange SPV? I wouldn't know, don't own one.
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08-08-2003, 01:40 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 105
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No, the cold reality is that my 7650 is about 50x more reliable than the SPV, I have had to hard reset the thing 3x now(full ipsm clear lose all settings and apps) I can go a week with the 7650, recording videos till the memory's full, downloading apps and video's off WAP, without one reset needed. It is just a far-far more stable OS.
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08-08-2003, 02:18 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,017
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My motorola T720 never crashes on me. Quite a stable device, even with the camera attached almost all the time.
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