Mobile phone 1 Army head 0
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in smartphone on
A couple of the broadsheets have picked up on an amusing incident on live TV on Sunday, where Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the British army, was defeated by a mobile phone.
This was during an interview with Stephanie Flanders, the BBC’s economics editor, who was forced to tell him to, “turn that phone off”.
Sir Mike’s first mistake was to go live on air with a mobile phone in his pocket. His second mistake was to not have it on silent. His third mistake was to not know how to reject a call when it did ring.
As you can see in the short clip below though -he did show a cool head in analysing the situation and realising that when he couldn’t turn it off, hurling it away like a ticking grenade would be the best, and luckily for us, most entertaining option.
We can sympathise at least. It’s not the first time I’ve been tempted to deal with technology through the immediate application of physics and our esteemed Editor Maggie, very nearly did the same thing when reviewing the no less than infuriating Toshiba TG01.
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