Stupid question, but it’s been bugging me all day.
My work just issued me a fancy new pager for me to lose, and I discovered it gives me AP news updates (China not giving airplane back, George Harrison has a growth on this lung, blah, blah…). Does this thing update *itself[/] once in awhile, or am I expected to do somthing?
It’s a Motorola --one of those fancy new ones where folk’s can e-mail me messages via the Weblink site.
Yeah, yeah. I looked at the booklet and the webpage. Both are in greek.
Unless it’s got more brains than I’m giving it credit for, it’s just receiving a packet of information that’s being broadcast to it periodically the same way your other pages are broadcast to it.
Or is there something in your question I’m missing?
I think I have the same model of pager. It’s cool, because you get sports news, too. You don’t have to do a thing but read the news, and only if you want to.
BTW–does yours actually vibrate and/or beep when it receives the news bulletins? If so, there is a way you can set it so it will activate (buzz/beep) when you get a real page, but not when you get a news bulletin. (I only ask because we had a problem with that in my organization. I, being the only one who read the FING MANUEL*, spent two days teaching people how to work the damned thing.)
I agree with you that the instructions are strange. Ya just gots to experiment.
I have a Moto pager and I get the news updates from Verizon (the paging service). They are brodcast overy so often by the pager service and your pager can be set to display them or not. I have just a simple one way pager but I am sure yours gets its news the same way mine does.
Inky, the pager services my company (Arch Wireless) offers include both basic national news/sports broadcasts (for all of the one-way and two-way alphanumeric pagers) and customizable broadcasts (for the high-end 2-way units). Yours is probably the former-it’ll run forever without any interaction needed.