[bookport] Re: a weird experience
- From: "Lou Kolb" <loukolb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:17:11 -0400
Missy,
This seems totally plausible to me. Cell phones are really just small 2-way
radios and they often transmit signals to the cell system that users are
unaware of. This is absolutely normal. Since the BP was probably no more
than a few inches away, it's quite conceivable that the energy field
generated by the phone was enough to reset the unit to factory defaults.
The best way to avoid this is to keep them separated when you can. Lou
----- Original Message -----
From: "Missy Hoppe" <melissah@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Book Port" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:29 AM
Subject: [bookport] a weird experience
> Hello, all. I had something really weird happen with my book port this
> weekend, and wanted to write and ask if anyone else has ever experienced
> this phenomena before. I was traveling to my grandparents' house and had
> the bp in my purse as always with the headphones wire sticking out so that
> I could listen. In a separate region of the purse, I had my cell phone
> turned on.
> Twice, within an hour or so, the bp spontaneously restored itself to the
> factory settings and put me back to page 60 in the book I had been trying
> to read. The bp's keypad was locked both times, and I wasn't touching
> anything either time, so something else had to be causing the resets.
> I'm wondering if somehow, the cell phone got a signal of some sort
> thatsomehow transmitted to the bp, causing the resets to happen.
> On the way home that night, I kept the bp more separated from the phone
and
> all was well. Also, all is well if the phone isn't turned on in the first
> place, so is there any documentation that bp's don't function properly
when
> in close proximity to cell phones? Just curious as I've never had trouble
> with my bookport before this incident. Any thoughts would be extremely
> appreciated.
> Missy
>
>
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