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Did you guys know that the N900 Alarms Goes On When Phone is turned Off? I didn't know that until now, the alarm went on and the phone was turned off. It asked me if i would like to turn the device on or not. lol. Interesting.
 

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Yeah, I use it all the time.

If i'm in bed browsing, and I doubt the battery will last until the morning, and the charger is on the other side of the room, I just turn it off to save power, and the alarm still works. Genius!

I think S60 devices do it too, not sure though.
 
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This is native to most nokia phones and has been for quite some time.
 
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lol, that's pretty cool. I wonder how does the phone know when to turn on the alarm if its off though? I thought once the phone is off it is like fully off, so how does the phone turn on the alarm if its not on? o.O
 
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SE phones do it too, it is quite common behaviour
 
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It's not off, that's why removing battery does something different. And it charges. etc.

And this isn't the coolest, the actual WOW for me was a few years ago (all nice Nokias have it) when my phone auto-offed itself for low battery at 18:00 and at 8 AM it rang. The damned thing rang, it kept some juice in its pockets to wake me up.

Every now it just surprises you.
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My 6230 did that too
 
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A godsend feature in my opinion.

Enables you to turn the phone off whilst asleep, avoiding any message notifications or unwanted 3.am calls!! =)

One of the reasons I have bought Nokia's for last 10 years.
 
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Cool feature. I wonder if it uses something similar to the scheduled power-on many PC BIOSes have? It's possible that it sets itself to wake up on the next alarm event whenever powering down.
 
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could it be possible to use this beahviour to build an app to turn the device on with an sms? it would be a cool feature! it could be used together with other features such as invisible mode and google latitude and maybe front camera as an anti-theft app. yes i like dreaming.
 
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