Cell Phones and Coasters

I also see no need for anybody to have a cell phone in a theme/amusement park at all.

Your Sprint phone can also be replaced if you bought it at costco.

I feel sorry for you if you paid $500 for a Kyocera 6035-they run about $99 nowadays. :) Having a phone at the park is a great convenience, especially if you're with a large group, or if you get separated from your friends.
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Thats the only reason I use one at a Park.

Great for meeting up with people in your group. ANd the games on some cell phones provide a nice diversion while in line.

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Da Poodle

Coming in 2003-The Spawn Of Magnum!

Mark W. Baruth said:
I feel sorry for you if you paid $500 for a Kyocera 6035-they run about $99 nowadays. :) Having a phone at the park is a great convenience, especially if you're with a large group, or if you get separated from your friends.

Not to mention those Kyocera phones are damn ugly...

Well, the phone made it through th day. I just left it in the bins most of the time since they were only running one train, so no one would really have a chance at taking it.

Just an FYI, Busch Gardens Tampa instituted a no cell phone policy on all of their rides. If they see you using one in the queue they will take it from you until your ride is complete. I was using one of those 2 way radios in line for Gwazi and put it in my fanny pack and when the lady came to check my seat belt she demanded that I get out the radio and give it to her and that I would get it back after the ride. She said they were doing it for cell phones as well. They must have gotten sued for a flying cell phone during a ride.

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Bob Hansen

Operation Wicked Twister
Goal: Lose enough weight (50lbs) to ride Wicked Twister in 2K3
Progress: 25 pounds since 1-1-2003

Mark W. Baruth said:
I feel sorry for you if you paid $500 for a Kyocera 6035-they run about $99 nowadays. :)

Yeah. I got it just after it first came out.

The follow up, QPC-7135 is about to come out.
Check it out here: http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/7100_phone/7100_phone_series.htm

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Yep...people have been asking me for the 7135 for about 6 months now (in case I haven't mentioned it before, I am a partner in a Verizon Wireless agency). I'd be cautious before buying one...they've had many many many issues in the labs testing them.

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I'm a Samsung flipphone guy myself -- current phone is an N400. It's alright, but in some ways I liked the previous N200 more (the N400 sometimes loses track of the carrier and goes into active searching mode until it kills off the battery. Why the designers don't put in a power-safe seek is beyond me. Search for a tower. Don't see one? Sleep a minute. Search. Don't see one? Sleep 2 minutes. Repeat with increasing intervals until the interval is like 10 minutes or so. You'd get MUCH better battery life, while still finding the signal if one becomes available. If they already do that and it STILL kills battery life, well, then that just sucks. ;) Anyway...)

Between the diabetes (mine and several relatives), the cats I leave at home when I'm on the road, the elderly grandmother...no, I won't go without the phone. Odds are while I'm at the park I'll just be able to enjoy myself anyway, but I hate being out of contact just in case. The week I was in the UK last summer, my sister ended up in the hospital, and I had no clue until I got home. I'd have LOVED to have been informed.

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--Greg, aka Oat Boy
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*** This post was edited by GregLeg 3/17/2003 11:41:33 AM ***

I wish I could leave my cell phone at home/in the car, but being the only engineer for a website means if I'm not available 24 hours a day for them, I could get fired. My personal favorite is when our network went dead and I got called about 10 feet from the top of Goliath's lift hill.

Didn't answer that time :)

Still, I always just throw mine in a front pocket on my jeans. It's never budged at all, even on X. 'Course, it's just one of the Nokia 3360's, so big deal if it gets lost...

I turn the phone towards me and hook it on my belt inside my pants, its still in front of you and you can hardly see it. It is really secured especially if its inside your pants and hooked between your belt and pants, while your **** is over it. Its a helpful technique that usually works when sneaking it into school.

I turn the phone towards me and hook it on my belt inside my pants, its still in front of you and you can hardly see it. It is really secured especially if its inside your pants and hooked between your belt and pants, while your **** is over it. Its a helpful technique that usually works when everyonesneak it into school.

GregLeg said:
I'm a Samsung flipphone guy myself -- current phone is an N400. It's alright, but in some ways I liked the previous N200 more (the N400 sometimes loses track of the carrier and goes into active searching mode until it kills off the battery. Why the designers don't put in a power-safe seek is beyond me. Search for a tower. Don't see one? Sleep a minute. Search. Don't see one? Sleep 2 minutes. Repeat with increasing intervals until the interval is like 10 minutes or so. You'd get MUCH better battery life, while still finding the signal if one becomes available. If they already do that and it STILL kills battery life, well, then that just sucks. ;) Anyway...)

hey greg, ive got the same cell phone. used to have the n200, but just recently purchased my n400, even got the nice little camera for it :)

try setting your roaming to just SprintPCS. my phone used to search all the time when it was on automatic, but now that i leave it on SprintPCS it rarely searchs for a signal. it eithier stays on the sprint network or goes into Digital Roam immediately.

another way to save your battery is to turn the location setting off in the phone settings. that seems to take a way from the battery life. i charge my phone every other day, and talk on it anywhere from a half an hour to 2 hours a day, not to mention that i use vision a few times a day and never go below half a battery.

sprint's also got a cool little case for the phone (not the leather one) and it has a strap / clip to attach it to your pants, so thats what i plan on doing this summer (actually april when SFNE opens! :) ) to secure my phone. although ive never had any problems in the past.
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John
Albany Entertainment
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KTS....that one time on Gwazi, and meeting up with GregLeg at IoA are the only two times I've even HAD a cell phone with me at a park....and both times I was thankful to have it...by and large when I'm going to a park, minimalism is the rule to follow...;)
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Hey Gator, I am not disputing you had it, I am just pointing out the nazi tactics they are using at that park now for some reason ;)
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Bob Hansen

Operation Wicked Twister
Goal: Lose enough weight (50lbs) to ride Wicked Twister in 2K3
Progress: 25 pounds since 1-1-2003

I turned off the Location setting AGES ago. Setting it for "Sprint only" is tempting, but for my travel purposes doing so would defeat one of the points of getting the dual-mode (analog fallback) phone -- staying in contact even if I'm roaming. Battery life is decent even if it goes to analog mode, the problem is there seems to be a bug where it can't find ANY signal sometimes.

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--Greg, aka Oat Boy
My page
"I can't believe I just left a nuclear weapon in an elevator." -- Farscape

My phone goes with me to keep in touch with my son and husband, although I tend to turn it off when on coasters. I also wear cargo pants or shorts so I can slip it into a pocket that secures with either a zipper or velcro.

I've started turning the phone off on coasters because in the coarse of a ride, I've managed to bump it just right so that it dials my voice mail and leaves a message.

Of course, hearing the rumbling and screams of other riders while on a coaster is kinda neat too.

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hmm, thats weird. i havent had any probs like that so far. i live in upstate, new york, so when i do travel its eithier to nyc, boston, or jersey. the service rarely goes into roam for me so the sprint pcs setting isnt really a prob for me. have you talked to sprint about it? possibly a defective phone?

CP Lady, you should turn the Key Guard on, on your phone. then you can keep it on and dont have to worry about it accidently making a call. :)

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John
Albany Entertainment
http://albany.n3.net
Great Escape Online Guide Coming Soon!
*** This post was edited by CalvinJ23 3/17/2003 9:56:34 PM ***

yeah zippered cargos are great and putting in a bag is good diea if you;re hitting watter rides. my sony igital camera survived a ride on aplengheist in my pocket so it's all good.

but my pants that usualy wear to BGW has a pocket on the sid eof my leg that phone slips nilcey into. and is held nicley (gott pu**** out form the bottom it fits tighly) and it;s never fallen out throh 50= laps on apollo 6 laps on aplpie 3 on BBW and 7+ on nessie. oh yeah and few gos on a boomerrang in OC.
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