News from the future: Rebooting your car
This bit of news from the future is actually here already: Jan Chipchase recently spent 3 hours trying to "security reset" his rental car - part of which procedure involved sitting inside the car in a hot parking lot, with windows shut, touching nothing for a full 20 minutes with no results.
(via Blackbeltjones, who as user experience manager for the Nokia N-series has done a phenomenal job assuring that my N80 reboots at random)
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Hi Nikolaj - Although it's far-from-entirely down to me, your N80 certainly shouldn't be rebooting at random. Of course, your first stop rather than the O'Reilly Radar blog could be the store that sold you that particular device - but if that doesn't suit you, why don't you email me and we can figure out the solution. /matt
Matt, you're right -- that was a cheap shot and not entirely fair even though it was tounge-in-cheek.
Apart from the random crashes (probably caused by the S60 browser) and poor battery life (due to 3G and wi-fi) it's a wonderful little tool.
/n
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Ted Shelton [10.02.06 09:22 AM]
Here's another approach to the security reset - which I used to have to do on my Audi (back when I willingly purchased Audi products) -- disconnect the car battery... much better than 20 minutes motionless in a hot car. But really, can't the car companies do better?