iPhone Provides a Light

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:04 AM, David Weintraub wrote:

>> My officemate Jeff Carlson confessed to me the other day that he
>> uses his iPhone like a flashlight.
>
> Heck, that's nothing. My Motorola RIZR actually has a built in light.
> I think it's suppose to be a flash for the camera, but unlike a real
> flash, you turn it on and off manually.
>
> I've also used my iPod like a flashlight since the latest models give
> off plenty of light. The only problem (and I assume it's the same
> problem with the iPhone) is that the "light" goes off every 20 seconds
> or so if you don't touch the scroll wheel.

Back in the mid 90s, I was working for a client in one of the high
rises in Boston. The building in which they were in had all the
lights on a timer to shut off at a certain point at night. All the
lights on a given floor was controlled by one central light switch,
and to get the lights back you had to find it and cycle it. Hard to
believe now, but the only thing back then that had a backlight was my
PowerBook (and a rather dim one at that). I felt a little goofy
swinging that thing around---more like a torch than a flashlight---but
it worked well enough.

Tn