Originally Posted by
jsloan
None of what you wrote is true.
You still need to put devices in airplane mode for the same reason you always have -- because the cellular radio signal can cause interference as it boosts its gain to try to connect to the ground stations that are all (a) overlapping and (b) moving at 600 mph.
Airplane mode does not disable Bluetooth -- it never has, as Bluetooth was specifically developed as a low-power, short-range, non-interfering system. And while turning on airplane mode does disable WiFi, you can turn WifI back on without disabling airplane mode. You'll see that you are in airplane mode -- cellular radio disabled -- and WiFi is enabled.
This has been allowed since in-flight WiFi became certified.
Yes, what I wrote is true and documented. Most of what your wrote is factually true, but completely irrelevant.
Your statement above about airplane mode is simply wrong. Turning on Airplane mode on a laptop disables wifi and Bluetooth.
While you can turn individual items on and off in wifi mode, they are, by default turned off. As I stated.
Here is a
link to help you.
And here is the
link from Google where they state (as I did):
When you first turn on your Android phone’s Airplane mode, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are turned off.
Now Apple handles it a little differently initially, but if you turn off Bluetooth it operates the way Google does.
Turning on Airplane Mode, turns off all radios except for Bluetooth. If you turn off Bluetooth while you're in Airplane Mode, your device will remember that and will turn off Bluetooth the next time that you turn on AirPlane Mode.
Hope this helps clear it up for you.