News - iPhone suffers New Year alarm glitch

[TheAnimus]

Why uses alarm on the phone? Get a real clock with alarm people...

If you rely on software to wake you up then you are late!

I've got a busy few weekends lined up, so I thought I should drop by my parents because odds are it will be may before i've time to see them next.

I have three days clothes, toothbrush, usb travel plug (folds flat gnarly useful gift from my aunt!) usb to thingie micro standard (phone+kindle use it) vaio P series (takes up less space than an iPad) and my current fav phone an Omnia7.

Thats it. Thats more than enough. Its just my manbag to go through airport security at 6am tomorrow and thats how I like it.

I've relied on various phones as my alarm clock for the last 7 years. I've only ever had problems when I've been far too drunk to wake up.

If my phone didn't function as an alarmclock once, I'd probably loose favour with it, twice, it would be back to them. Like i did with my iPhone 4, because it had yellow splodges and dropped calls. How anyone can defend this is beyond me, but hey, I'm paid a massive amount of money to know my way round .Net rather than java, the same job pays £200 a day more, so maybe I'm biased in expecting my phone to work and liking the NT kernel architecture, because you know I'm paid more than when I worked on java+unix. So maybe take my demands that an alarm clock works as been extreme.

whats your excuse for defending chronic incompetence.

[DDY]

Perhaps Apple should start handing out free alarm clocks with every iphone purchase.

[Fraz]

'real clocks' use software as well.

Clocks with alarms have been around a lot longer than software has! My alarm clock is entirely clockwork, apart from the battery keeping the cogs turning.