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iPhone 4 saved my life!

Aug 1, 2010, 11:40 PM #6


MultiMediaWill
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Join Date: Aug 2010

I plan to get my iphone 4 on sunday or monday in a week from now. Do you think I will be able to get one that still has 4.0.1?



^^^Wow, you got one quicker than you thought...:rolleyes:
 
MultiMediaWill said:
I want to personally thank Apple for the Iphone 4 but i couldn't find a place to send them a direct email. This past sunday me and my friends were boating at Lake Lanier in Georgia. We got stuck in the middle of the lake in a severe thunderstorm, with strong winds, hail and hard pouring rain. The waves were crashing and boat almost capcsized. We were soaking wet, scared and thought we were going to die. I was still able to get a signal, in the storm while we were wet, the phone was getting wet and I was still able to call 911 and stay on the phone with them for 30 minutes when my battery was at 18%. Also second note...911 was only able to locate us because the Iphone's GPS signal. THANKKK YOU APPLE!!! It (the phone) literally along with prayer saved our lives and so I want to say thank you. I will forever be a loyal Apple/iphone customer.
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Glad you are all ok.
Good thing you don't have a proximity sensor problem or else you would have hung up on 911.....
 
Before I opened this I predicted the story to be like "my iPhone 4 was in my shirt pocket when someone shot at me and my iPhone blocked it and saved my life." Hahaha I watch too many movies.

Anyways that's cool but yeah almost any phone could've done that.
 
1 Cor. 15:26 said:
Lake Lanier? Seriously dude. Lake Lanier. You got stuck in a storm...on Lake Lanier.

Seeing as the drought weve been having in GA for the past few years with sporadic showers, the water levels of Lake Lanier have fallen drastically. And you got stuck...in a torrential storm, where GPS was the only thing that saved you...on Lake Lanier.
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Lake Lanier is full now.
 
AFAIK, AT&T still does not read the phone's GPS for emergency calls.

AT&T chose the less exact and less expensive E911 option, and uses only towers to locate a phone. No special soft/hardware is needed on the phone that way.

From the current AT&T Developer's Program LBS FAQ:

TDOA is the location determination method that AT&T uses to locate a caller when they dial 911 from their mobile phone. TDOA calculates the location of a mobile phone by using the difference in the time of arrival of signals at different cell sites.
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(Apparently somebody inserted a line on Wikipedia, claiming that AT&T is now using GPS for E911. They're probably confusing it with phone app-based LBS.)

CDMA carriers like Verizon and Sprint do locate emergency calls by the A-GPS that they have included on virtually every phone since 2002. They can query a phone for this information over a control channel. (If GPS isn't working on the phone, they fall back on tower trilateration.)
 
DanggxAmanda said:
Before I opened this I predicted the story to be like "my iPhone 4 was in my shirt pocket when someone shot at me and my iPhone blocked it and saved my life." Hahaha I watch too many movies.

Anyways that's cool but yeah almost any phone could've done that.
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ME AND YOU BOTHHHH!!!!!

I was sure the OP was informing us he was still in the hospital recovering from this tragedy.

And Lastly this thread made me cry from laugher. You guys are all (Some) mean and I think it's hilarious but rude. Spread alittle love to our new people :D
 
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