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Old May 21, 2013 | 10:04 am
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Originally Posted by WillCAD

Completely false.

Airplane mode deactivates ALL signal sending and receiving capabilities on a smartphone - wi-fi, bluetooth, GPS, and of course the 1g/2g/3g/4g (how many bloody Gs are there?!) phone/data connection.
Wrong.

On a recent trip to Australia and Thailand, I put my iPhone in Airplane mode to avoid any overseas roaming / data charges. I was still able to turn on Wi-Fi, and use GPS. So you can't say Airplane mode deactivates ALL communications.
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