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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the i-have-the-power dept.

Man's hierarchy of needs has changed:

A man attending a performance of the Broadway play Hand to God decided that he needed a little more juice on his iPhone—just before the play started. So, because any outlet is fair game when your battery icon is flashing red, he climbed up onto the stage and plugged his phone into a prop wall with a prop outlet and walked away. Of course, the outlet—like the wall—was fake.

According to the New York Post, the crew had to stop the pre-show music and make an announcement to the audience that that sort of thing isn't allowed. One audience member copped to "loudly heckling the idiot" when the ushers removed the phone and asked him to take it back.

After Hurricane Sandy legions of iPhone and other smart phone owners camped out in the Long Island malls, recharging at outlets normally used for floor waxers. What's the most desperate scene of Dying Battery Panic Syndrome you've witnessed?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @01:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @01:06PM (#207863)

    not a desperate story but i have seen people using two hands when using the smart phone:
    one hand holds the "battery bank" which is tethered to the smart phone in the other hand.
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    anyways, i got a "dumb" samsung phone for my cell phone needs and its go a no-kidding 6 days stand-by time.
    extras bonus, it's so dumb i think they cannot even remotely install some spy software : )
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    also there are some DC/AC converters with 12 V lead-acid battery charger integrated and it can use ~ 40 Watt PV panel to charge the battery from which it will give you square 50 Hz 220 V electricity:
    http://www.leonics.com/product/renewable/inverter/dl/S120A-022.pdf [leonics.com]
    just saying ... next haicurrifun will come!

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 11 2015, @03:48PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday July 11 2015, @03:48PM (#207903) Journal

    extras bonus, it's so dumb i think they cannot even remotely install some spy software : )

    If it's a GSM phone, it has an embedded JVM with remote installation ability. [github.io] I wasn't able to find out whether the same is true for CDMA.

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    • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Sunday July 12 2015, @12:20AM

      by Gravis (4596) on Sunday July 12 2015, @12:20AM (#208021)

      If it's a GSM phone, it has an embedded JVM with remote installation ability.

      this is incorrect! if it's a GSM phone, your SIM card likely has an embedded processor that can do stuff in cooperation with your cell phone's OS.

      I wasn't able to find out whether the same is true for CDMA.

      this has nothing to do with the protocol itself. it has everything to do with the card and you phone's OS. CDMA networks dont use SIM cards and therefore do not have a secret processor. however, there could be backdoors within the CDMA and GSM protocol but again, it would require your cell phone to cooperate with such a scheme.

      the bottom line here is that you can't trust your cell phone because you dont know what the code it's running actually does. seems like a reason for an open source cell phone that doesn't implement garbage like that.