Man Calls 911 To Fix Broken iPhone

tekgoblin writes "For some reason Michael Skopec of Illinois thought that calling 911 would get his broken iPhone fixed. It got him arrested instead. From the article: 'After the five calls were made police traced the calls to his home in Illinois where they found him drunk and belligerent. He was arrested because he would not follow the police officers orders. It has yet to be made clear what he was actually trying to accomplish by calling 911 to get help with his iPhone. Although he was arrested he only faces misdemeanor charges and has to be in court next week.'"

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For what it costs, it shouldn't break.

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Kyocera makes a phone that can be run over by a car and still work. Casio makes a phone which can be dropped and submerged for hours and still work. Motorola makes a Android smartphone which is dustproof and water-resistant. Apple makes a phone that breaks if it falls of a table. There's no reason that Apple's products need to be so fragile.

The first generation of rugged phones was based on a rigid frame surrounded by rubber. That adds bulk. The future may be to give the printed circuit board, display, and battery some flexibility and make the case out of Kevlar, with sapphire-over-polycarbonate for the screen. Then the whole phone can flex a bit without damage.

The next step is to get rid of the holes. It's time for connectorless phones. Modern phones have Bluetooth, WiFi, and CDMA/GSM radios. Add inductive charging and you don't need any connectors. Then the whole unit can be watertight. This beats putting in water detectors that invalidate the warranty.

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He's some dirtbag who thinks that freedom should be for everybody - except for pregnant women. Those, he believes the state should force into involuntary servitude.

He's an OBGYN. He won one of his early elections because he had delivered just about every baby in a county:

His successful campaign against Gammage surprised local Democrats, who had expected to retain the seat easily due to the Watergate scandal. Gammage underestimated Paul's popularity among local mothers: "I had real difficulty down in Brazoria County, where he practiced, because he'd delivered half the babies in the county. There were only two obstetricians in the county, and the other one was his partner."