FUN FACTS : Your Mobile Phone Knows Morse Code!

How many of you have worked out for yourselves that your mobile phone actually knows Morse Code?

You remember Morse Code!
It's the code made up of a series of dots and dashes which represent short and long sounds when used in conjunction with letters and numbers etc.

Samuel Morse's invented it for the purposes of the electric telegraph in the mid-1830s. It was mostly used with radio frequencies to pass messages, but with the technology of today is largely obsolete, save for things like emergency signals like the good old S.O.S. or Save Our Souls.

In fact it was S.O.S. that 'helped' me realise that my mobile phone knew morse code. (Sorry, I know I'm stretching the pun there.)

S.O.S. in morse code is a sequence of 3 short dots or sounds,representing the letter 'S', followed by 3 long dots or sounds,representing the letter 'O', followed again by 3 short dots or sounds, again representing the letter 'S'.


So S.O.S = . . . -- -- -- . . .

After a while I realised my mobile was also trying to tell me something.

No it wasn't S.O.S., I'm not an abusive phone owner, although I do like to lock my phone up in a dark and dingy locker sometims, or even worse, confine it to the mess of other items in my musty smelling handbag, but that's not so bad now since the ipod and the mobile have decided to be friends now afterall.....

No, it was a bit more obvious than that as it had been repeatedly telling me over the years.

I just finally figured out a few months ago that when I get a text message or an S.M.S. (are you starting to follow me now....?) The phone beeps with a . . . -- -- . . . or in other words, the morse code for S.M.S!

All these years the little bugger's been beeping at me, it seems it really was trying to tell me something! ; )