{"id":375722,"date":"2010-02-28T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/28\/new-smartphone-app-automatically-cuts-usage-when-driving\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T17:46:00","slug":"new-smartphone-app-automatically-cuts-usage-when-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375722","title":{"rendered":"New smartphone app automatically cuts usage when driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/safety\/\" rel=\"tag\">Safety<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellcease.com\/Default.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/cellcease.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re truly worried about your teenager and what he or she might get into &#8211; or plow into &#8211; using a cellphone while driving, then perhaps you might find Cell Cease of interest. If your teen&#8217;s phone runs on Windows Mobile and has GPS, Cell Cease will block the ability to make and receive most phone calls if it detects the phone is moving more than 5 miles per hour. Only 911 calls and an allowed numbers list will be able to get through otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, Cell Cease makes changes to the software with with a PIN code. While safety is the intended benefit, there are not-insignificant downsides. Running Cell Cease can reduce your usable battery time by up to 20 percent, for one. Even more importantly,  Cell Cease can&#8217;t tell <em>how<\/em> you&#8217;re moving faster than 5 mph. If you&#8217;re a passenger in a car, riding on a bus or train, cruising in a sailboat, or even just walking pretty quickly, it doesn&#8217;t matter: your phone is rendered nearly useless. On another note, is there a teen in the world that actually <em>uses<\/em> a WinMo phone?<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellcease.com\/Default.aspx\">Cell Cease<\/a> | Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ryanh\/3055876591\/\">Ryan Harvey<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC.2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/28\/new-smartphone-app-automatically-cuts-usage-when-driving\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>New smartphone app automatically cuts usage when driving<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/28\/new-smartphone-app-automatically-cuts-usage-when-driving\/\">New smartphone app automatically cuts usage when driving<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:46:00 EST.  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If your teen&#8217;s phone runs on Windows Mobile and has GPS, Cell Cease will block the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}