My phone has a button on the side which cannot be disabled and which makes my phone take a picture. It then makes a very loud shutter noise which cannot be disabled that notifies everyone in earshot that a photo has just been taken.
At work I have my iPod on and can’t hear the sound my phone makes when something else in my pocket, that same iPod, pushes down the button. I can hear my boss, when he taps on my shoulder and I take my headphones off, telling me that I have just taken at least two dozen pictures of the inside of my pants, and could I please stop.
Thank you, technology!
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You can’t lock the controls on the phone? That’s bizarre…
Even more bizzarely, I can’t even _configure_ some of them. They’re locked to dumb-as-sand options like Fido’s “web portal”, and crap like that.
Sweet!
“What’s this?”
“Nothing officer.”
“Were you taking pictures inside your pants?”
“It was an accident, I swear!”
I love technology.
The one quirk of my phone I hate is that when it checks my email (which I have it configured to do every 15 minutes), it lights up the screen for a few seconds (even if I had locked it) to tell me it’s checking. And if it’s in my pocket or a bag, and something hits the touch-sensitive screen in those few seconds, the screen will stay on and keep responding to touches. I’ve made a few accidental calls that way.
“Cannot be disabled”? Puh-leeze. One word: screwdriver.
Speaking of annoying tech, does anyone know how to send pictures taken by a Motorola Razr directly to yer laptop, without having to send each one individually to an email, incurring a fee for each sent photo? Verizon admits that there’s no other way (crooks, I tell ya).
Mark: USB or Bluetooth. You should be able to see that phone as a filesystem either way.