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Comment by arprocter | Hacker News Reader

This was just a time thing. That and it was so cold my phone actually shut down before the 2nd Uber finally arrived.

I guess next time I could hedge my bets by ordering Uber and waiting in the taxi line at the same time.

Does anyone know if cancelling a supposedly en-route Uber could earns me a black mark? I probably would've cancelled the first ride after 15 minutes if I knew it wouldn't flag me

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>it was so cold my phone actually shut down

how does that work? I've never heard of electronics shutting down due to cold. Well, at least not due to cold temperatures that a human can resist.

How do you know it was due to the cold? could it be that some water condensed inside the phone or something?

I'm genuinely curious since I've never heard this statement before.

Generally it's due to the battery.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/is-the-cold-weather...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cold+phone+shutdown

It was showing battery percentage in the 40s but then the screen suddenly went black. If I tried powering it back on it would only show me a diagram telling me to plug into USB.

Once I got out of the cold it came back to life, still showing 40 something percent battery.

Uhmm, very interesting. I'll need to read up on this.

Thanks for the other commenter for links as well.

Edit:

Btw... that must have been really cold whether!

I mentioned it to my friend and he said the same thing happened to him when snowboarding in CO over the weekend - could there be a market for heated phone cases?!

These were both iPhones, btw

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