Is this a wind up?!

[pete_w]

Nokia Speed Trap Detector
The settings for radar speed traps detector. Your Nokia cell phone can be programmed to pick up radar speed traps, when programmed your cell phone picks up the radar and alerts you on the message alert tone. ( Doesn't work with Nokia 7110! )

1. Enter your menu
2. Select settings
3. Select security settings
4. Select closed user group
5. Select on
6. Enter 00000
7. Press ok
8. Clear back to normal, within a few seconds your phone will display a radar sign with five zero's next to it. It is now activated.

Unfortunately only Nokia phones have this function. Cell info display needs to be de-activated. Settings -> Phone Settings -> Cell Info display
Each time you turn off your phone, or even each time you loose contact with your carrier, you'll have to activate it again... It is done by steps 1 through 5, but the number (00000) will be already on the field as default.

[jmorgan]

I would say a wind up? Closed user group in my manual list a different function. Also I would have thought the aerial is incompataple?

[manek]

An old hoax. Ignore.

[pete_w]

hmmm -didn't work with my Nokia, but it is quite a recent model. All the menu commands are in the right place thou'

[pbrettle]

Depending on the supplier and contract that you have on the phone you might just be setting ON the closed user group dialing option. In most cases this will do nothing - most people dont use this - but in the rare case that you have either restricted / locked your phone, or make use of preferential rates to co-workers, you could just enable that and stuff your phone...

But, yes, its a hoax and technically impossible in the UK. Our basestation technology isnt good enough to support triangulation for location specific information - but it will be....!!! Worried, you should be.

Cheers,

Paul

[madcop]

Just done it with my Nokia and got the radar sign up with the 00000 as stated in the instructions above.
I wonder if it will work!

[markda]

Instead of cameras and colour screens, maybe nokia should think of inrgrating such technology into there new phones, think we'd all buy one!

Right, stand up who works at nokia... Put the reccomendation in

[craigw]

as Manek said, old hoax. shame though.