Posts with keyword: cellphone


Sprint's Product Management Foibles

Joel Spolsky got to review one of Sprint's new phones wit the new "Power Vision Network" and he hated it. It's difficult to believe that some team of product managers actually thought about this and concluded that it was good. When will cell phone companies wake up? Not soon, I predict.
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Turn Off Your Cell Phone

N9472C in the air(click to enlarge) Every time you fly, you hear it: "You may not use your cell phone and other portable electronic devices in flight because they may interfere with the navigational equipment on this aircraft." Like me, you've probably wondered "is that really true?" An article in IEEE Spectrum by researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center and Carnegie Mellon University delivers some surprising results. Bill Strauss, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, and Daniel D. Stancil measured the RF spectrum inside commercial aircraft cabins during 37 real flights over the course of three months in late 2003.
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