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Phone Survives Spectacular Fall And A Year Outdoors
IPhone owner Haukur Snorrason was surprised to have his device returned this week after he accidentally dropped it from a plane about a year ago. The phone had withstood both the spectacular fall and a year in the wilderness in Icelandic weather…
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Phone Scam Hits Iceland, Public Warned Not To Call Back Unknown International Numbers
Numerous Icelanders have reported getting phone calls from international numbers that they do not recognise. This is a scam, and one should never call the numbers back. Over the past week or so, many Icelanders have been called from unknown numbers beginning…
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Phone-Driving On The Rise
The percentage of Icelanders who never use the phone while driving has stayed the same, while the percentage of Icelanders who use their phones to call, text or browse online while driving has increased. According to a new poll from Market and…
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Middle-Aged High Income Men Most Likely To Phone-Drive
It is unclear just how much damage those who text or talk on the phone while driving do, but we do know a number of things about the people most likely to engage in this dangerous practice. Vísir reports that neither the…
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New Campaign Warns Against Phone Driving
Numerous Icelandic organisations have joined forces for a campaign encouraging people to stop phone driving. Nútíminn has posted another video of Icelandic drivers texting and talking on the phone while driving. As can be seen, in some cases these drivers were aware…
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Fines For “Phone Driving” Expected To Increase Soon
The real data behind accidents caused by phone driving is still largely unknown, but a legislative response is expected soon. Capital area police, in response to an inquiry from Vísir, report that police know of six traffic accidents since the beginning of…
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Many Icelanders Text While Driving
Almost all Icelanders believe texting while driving is wrong, but about a third of them do it anyway. RÚV reports that, according to a new Gallup poll conducted for the Icelandic Transport Authority, 77% of drivers between the ages of 25 and…
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Local Patriot Answers Prime Minister’s Calls
An accommodating local patriot from Breiðholt answered the phone on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office after calls were accidentally forwarded to her phone, reports RÚV. “It was no bother,” said Ingibjörg Sigurvinsdóttir. “Actually it really made my day… I am a…
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Show Up Naked On Monday And You’ll Get A Free Phone
As a great number of Icelanders camped out in front of Reykjavík’s Dunkin’ Donuts hoping to be one of the first 50 ever patrons and thus receive year’s worth of donuts, we should perhaps pay tribute to a curious event that took…
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Hold On To Retro Phones, Advises Civil Protection
Whereas the eruption around Bárðarbunga has so far been an effusive one, an explosive eruption remains possible. In case such an eruption takes place beneath the glacier itself, the greatest immediate threat would be potential floods. The Civil Protection authority, a department…
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New Wave Of “Microsoft” Fraudsters Hit Iceland
Fraudsters pretending to be employees of Microsoft are contacting Icelanders by both letter and telephone. MBL reports that one of the most common tactics these fraudsters will use will be to call people on their home phones, purporting to be employees of…