Salve! Robert Michel schrieb am Freitag, den 15. Dezember 2006 um 19:45h: > Did I alread mentioned the idea to have a capacitor parallel > to the battery? So the Neo1973 cold call the police even without > battery and the simcard and transmitt the coordinates of the phone.
Without SIM card is the keyword. There are people got into trouble, especialy in the mountains and they didn't made an emergency call because their GSM network was not strong enough. Only a few GSM user does know that then it help to remove the SIM card to do a emergency call with any GSM network. This could be implemented in the phone software, that for every emergency call (112/911) is deactivated, or just automaticaly when your SIM card has no connection to the own network/a roaming partner. The screen text should help the user to stay cool and inform that this connection is possible. Also in cooperation with some emergency hotlines a short info who to do a emergency call best could be usefull. Is it possible to send SMS or to use a data connection to a emergency hotline? I think at a situation when the network has a lot of load /traffic jam or the network connection would be realy weak, that a short sucessful connection could transmit message. BTW emergency call: On the longterm an OpenMokophone with thuraya.com satellite module could be interesting :) Phoning somewhere on a sea with an OpenMoko phone. And situations like Hurrican Kartrina has shown that informing the relatives is very difficult in such situation. So OpenMoko could be more than a system for a phone - when somewhere in the world the user has VoIP/Email/SMS/Chat server, one SMS could inform all his relatives/friends or a special voice mailbox would allow others to hear and leave important messages even when he and you doesn't have the infrastructure to phone with own phones. rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community