Comments on: in case of emergency?

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:20:56 +0000

I don’t have an option on the PIN. It’s a GPO from my corporate exchange server, and as that’s where my calendar is mastered and sync’d to all PDAs I have to have the PIN or no calendar :-(

In a previous life I just had a regular keylock, like the rest of the world. Mind you, if someone got hold of my mobile I’d not be so worried about them making calls as writing stuff on my FB page ;-)

By: John Girvin

John Girvin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:53:42 +0000

Throwing a bottle from a car? Wow, that’s so hilarious I can hardly contain myself.

I do a fair bit of riding on my own so it’s good to have my ICE numbers set up … just in case.

By: KingsMoss CC

KingsMoss CC — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:38:33 +0000

One of our guys was knocked off his bike in January when some eejit threw a full beer bottle at the bunch from an on-coming car. He was knocked off bike on to the ground. Okay, the guys were their to support him and get him to hospital BUT WHAT IF HE HAD BEEN ON HIS OWN AND KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS? I think the ICE no. on his phone would have been a great help. One of our support members is a paramedic and he says he has used ICE half a dozen times in last six months. Yeah, the PIN argument is fair but it is still a great option…

By: John Girvin

John Girvin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:23:38 +0000

Ah of course. My PIN is only required if the phone is switched off or the SIM changed, so I didn’t consider that.

Are you more likely to be involved in a bad accident or lose your phone? If you’re in trouble, wouldn’t you like the emergency services to be able to search your contacts? Is it a big problem if you lose your phone and it’s not PIN protected? It’s a trade-off between security and safety that you’ll have to decide for yourself.

Perhaps it would be a better idea to just write/stick your ICE contact numbers on the back of your phone? Now there’s a product idea!

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:26:55 +0000

There’d not be much point in my having an ICE contact – the emergency services wouldn’t have the PIN to unlock either of my mobiles …