If I am at a meal, and someone starts using a blackberry (or a laptop), I get up and leave. Has nobody got any manners anymore?
Anybody using a laptop or blackberry at breakfast needs to get out more.
As to the notion of phone on planes. god help us all.
Just imagine you settle down on an overnight flight. Ring ring! (or some other even more irritatingly inane ring tone).
If this ever comes to pass, all hell will let loose. If I was having this forced on me, I'd just start singing or whistling very loudly. Any loud-mouthed moron on the phone would soon give up.
Phones on a plane is just asking for in-flight aggro...big time.
Are the managers of airlines really as dumb as they seem??