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All posts filed under “Cell phones”

15 August, 2006

‘Breathalyser phone stops drinkers making embarrassing calls’ – LG LP4100

LG LP4100; looks like, well, a car
Image from kr.mobile.yahoo.com

Except that it doesn’t, by default – as the story in the Times mentions. You need to set it to block certain “numbers in the adddress book, such as former girlfriends or boyfriends, bosses, parents and kebab houses” when the built-in breathalyser detects that you are over the drink-drive limit.
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