<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There are lots of sources for power that can charge a cellular phone other than a wall socket.<div><br></div><div>Worst case, you can actually do it with 4 D-Cells, a resistor and a little connector ingenuity on cell phones that use USB-based chargers.</div><div><br></div><div>Car adapters, solar chargers, laptop USB ports, etc. all work as well.</div><div><br></div><div>A Laptop battery can deliver many 8-hour-worth charges to a cell phone, while it cannot run the laptop for anywhere near that long.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not saying that smartphones are a panacea. There is no panacea. However, when the other conventional communications channels have failed, this at least provides some additional alternatives and shows how the transport/platform/technology agnostic nature of the internet makes it a more robust way to deliver communications into affected areas.</div><div><br></div><div>If you can make ANYTHING work, you can probably get that thing onto the internet somehow. (At least for greater values of probability than virtually any other communications mechanism).</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Oct 30, 2012, at 07:39 , Lyle Giese <<a href="mailto:lyle@lcrcomputer.net">lyle@lcrcomputer.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">And how long does the battery last in
your smart phone? My wife can not go 8 hours without a
charger.(that's one reason I don't have a 'smart' phone) <br>
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Plus in really big events like Sandy or the big ice storm that
went through Kentucky a couple of years ago, how long will the
cell towers survive without power? Not all of them have on sight
gensets. Plus network outages<br>
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Way to vulnerable to 'depend' on the Internet in events like this.<br>
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On 10/30/12 08:20, Owen DeLong wrote:<br>
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Seems to me that cellular phones with browsers and other
internet-enabled applications are the obvious answer.
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<div>On Oct 30, 2012, at 04:34 , Jared Mauch <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jared@puck.nether.net">jared@puck.nether.net</a>>
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<div>Was reading and came across this. The Internet is now
the primary means of government communication replacing
the emergency alert system it seems...</div>
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W.H. send victims to Internet</a></h1>
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Americans under siege from Hurricane Sandy to
stay inside and keep watch on <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ready.gov/">ready.gov</a> for the
latest, he left out something pretty important -
where to turn if the electricity goes out.
Despite the heightened expectation o…</p>
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