Oh, you should try a little experiment. Maybe, as fitting for the day, you should go off and download yourself a Psyco'ish scream-tone and set yourself an alarm. Then, shutdown. I mean Power Down, Off, Dead, Completely. Then, go do something sinful with your significant other (if you haven't noticed, it's always the sinners that get it in the slasher flicks). Then, just at the worst possible moment - well, exactly when you asked - the little N810 will pull a Freddie Kruger and flicker back to life. Well, not a real life, just some flashes and burbs, then up into some weird un-dead zombie-like state where it blasts off your scream-tone, louder and louder, until you have no choice but to hit the dang thing. About then, you'd be ready to drive a wooden stake through its tiny electronic heart.

You know, I can respect the significant amounts of engineering that went into this ability, to wake from the dead, but I have to wonder... Why? I mean, I suppose if there was some kind of nuclear war or something and the power went out, I could turn the N810 off and have it wake me up once per day. I expect it would last a few weeks at that rate. But, even the Nokia docs say this thing is intended to be left on all the time. The only time I can thing of when I'd actually like to turn it off is when I want it to STAY off. For every situation where I could imagine a use for powering up from an off state for an alarm, I could imagine a thousand times where I'd specifically not want this. I mean, what if I wanted to go to the opera? Okay, me going to the opera is slightly less likely than a nuclear war; my personal opera-clock has never even been close to midnight. But, there really are times when I'd like to just turn the N810 off and forget about it. The engineering that makes it turn itself back on just seems so... counter-productive, worse than useless. Does anyone actually use this feature? Most of us don't even know it exists, at least until we get a rude surprise.

Anyway, it's not a huge deal. I guess I'm just in a silly mood.

Maybe I should go into that Brainstorm forum and propose an App that just makes backups and then deletes all the set alarms. Then, when running it again, it just puts all the saved alarms back. Having to do it just seems funny is all. It's such an obvious deficiency in such a wonderful device. Maybe that "airplane mode" does disable alarms too. I guess I'll download that scream-tone myself and try another test.

David...