Last night before going to bed, I went to turn off my cellphone, and I noticed when I picked it up that it was in “Sleep Mode.”
This means the phone is “asleep” — display dimmed, waiting for a call — but it’s certainly a phone-specific reference. Why doesn’t the phone have a mode for when I’m asleep? I could set it to activate automatically from, say, 10pm to 8am. Failing technology from the phone company to determine which calls were “emergency” and which weren’t, it could be set so that two calls from the same number within a minute would be considered “urgent” and the phone would ring — otherwise it would just send the call to voicemail. And I wouldn’t have to remember to turn the phone on and off all the time.
And of course it would be too much to ask, for voice commands — pick up the phone and say “phone, sleep” and “phone, wake.”
By the way, I never tried Sprint’s voice dialing because it always cost extra — though I did have a friend who programmed his phone to call different friends depending upon how he said “dude”; but then he forgot which one was “Duuuuude” and which one was “Dude?” but of course not which was “dudedudeDUDE.”