On 27/02/2015 09:59, Martin Brown wrote:
On 26/02/2015 22:29, Roger Mills wrote:
On 26/02/2015 22:16, wrote:
On Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:07:02 UTC, JimK wrote:
/Also worth having ICE numbers set up in your mobile phone./q

In Car Entertainment ?

I thought the acronym was now widely known. We had an initiative round
here where teenagers went around programming them into grannies phones.

In Case of Emergency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_case_of_emergency

Owain


Indeed. Not sure how that would work with a password-protected phone
though. When my phone goes to sleep, it can receive incoming calls or
make emergency calls - but that's all. Everything else needs a PIN to be
input to wake it up. I doubt whether the network operators would regard
ringing a number marked "ICE" as an emergency call.

That is an interesting point if the owner is out of it.

I wonder if smart phone makers could be persuaded to add an optional
single ICE call button to the unlock screen so that someone other than
the presumably incapacitated owner can make an emergency call!


My phone (Android 4.4.4, Sony Xperia Z1) shows an ICE button on the lock
screen, that opens the ICE contact, showing photo of ICE contact, and
telephone number, email and address details. It will also allow the
calling of the ICE contact from a locked handset.