copyright by Gina Novelle 05-05
I just don’t get it. I have a $1500.00 HP Laser Printer that after 1 hour shuts down and patiently waits until I send a job. Then it magically “wakes up” after 15 seconds and prints the job. In the other office, I have an HP G85 color printer; it goes to sleep and turns off the scanner light. Something in its circuitry knows how to come out of technical coma mode and with no human intervention; it copies, scans and prints. I even have a battery powered adding machine that does a power down after 15 minutes. Come to think of it, so does my Sony camera, my electric toothbrush, and my portable tape recorder. Why can’t my cell phone?
After all, I don’t use my electric tooth brush, adding machine, printer or camera in life saving situations, but someday, I may have to do that with my cell phone. When my husband fell in a turtle hole while hiking in the desert, and broke his arm, it was his cell phone that enabled him to call home. Why don’t cell phones have battery save mode?
How many times, have you been in the car, or with the kids, and needed to call home? You take out your cell phone, and oops, the battery is dead. Sometimes, my cell phone even lies to me. It says the battery is still alive. Just as I dial the number, and hear the voice on the receiving end say hello, that’s when my cell phone dies.
Every once in a while, just before it dies, I yell “hello, I can’t talk, because my cell phone battery is beeping.” Then all I hear is the annoying tone, signally my cell phone just flat lined. Hey, it’s not like they can call me back and find out what I needed. As a matter of fact, my husband pointed that out to me. He says it only causes others to worry, and they couldn’t even find me using my cell phone as a tracking device – duh, the battery is dead! If my cell phone transmission can be tracked and possibly save my life, then why does my adding machine have power save mode, but not my cell phone?
My technical friend tried to give me an answer. He told me that if cell phones shut down, there wasn’t a way to turn them back on. As I left the room, thinking to myself, “That’s just like a tech, if they can’t do it, then it can’t be done.” I wanted to scream, “Ever hear of remote operations?” Come on. What makes my HP G85 wake up? A signal is sent to it from a computer. Don’t we have digital phones now? You can send e-mail to my phone, but you can’t send a signal to wake up the battery? I’ll ask one more time!
Why can’t my cell phone go into power save mode?
About the Author
Gina Novelle works and lives on thirdpocket.com and is a free-lance web writer. She writes promotional articles for companies with web sites. Sometimes to break away from corporate writing, she writes her wonder articles. Take a corporate break and find more on POPCORNFART.COM