Cell Phone Features

[packbat]

Okay, so I got two phones: the old, prepaid, cheapo Nokia phone, and the new, camera-enabled, flip-open, Verizon Singular phone. It should be obvious which one's better, right?

Except the new phone is kinda fragile (I bent the cover for the power socket yesterday), with an inferior user interface (more features, but less resolution on both battery life and reception), no decent games, a camera that keeps photographing the inside of my pocket, unintuitive call-waiting, &c., &c., &c.

The old phone? Snake II (i.e. Snake with bonus features), and, as I just discovered, an honest-to-goodness flashlight.

Great Ghu! A cell phone with a flashlight!

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cellphone display glow for ultramarathon navigation

[zhurnaly.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Eric Clifton, a legendary ultrarunner, was lost in the dark during the Vermont 100 some years ago and had to try to use the glow of his cellphone to make out the directional arrows on course markers (usually they're paper plates stapled to trees) ... but I presume yours is more directional than that? - ^z

Re: cellphone display glow for ultramarathon navigation

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Indeed – hold the * key, and a LED behind the power button turns on. It's not very directional (the beam probably two steradians wide), but significantly better for illumination than the backlight, and you can hold it to aim much like a flashlight.