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Fact: This is wrong for a few reasons (a) There are many electrical devices we use that are used in same way as the week on shabbos such as a fridge, freezer, hot water urn, warming drawers, hot plate, etc. (b) If one uses the phone in a different manner than during the weekday it is not doing the same thing as one does during the week. (c) using the phone on Shabbos to connect with friends and relieves stress as to the whereabouts of kids and elderly parents enhances the Shabbos.
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Fact: (1) A standard smartphone which is not running the Shabbos App would indeed be muktzah as there is no use for it on Shabbos and it is used for prohibited uses. However, with the Shabbos App enabled the phone is now usable on Shabbos on therefore is not muktzah.
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Fact: (2) A smartphone with the Shabbos App enabled is not “muktzah machmas chisaron kis” because a phone is something constantly used and not reserved for a special use.
No, Shabbos App is a very serious project that has been worked on for over a year. The app will be released with all the features on Dec 1, 2014.
Your missing the point, the phone IS muktza- just because there is an illegal use for your smartphone on shabbos didn’t make it mutar to use. You guys are so off its ridiculous, I don’t even know what you people were thinking trying to make an app to use your smartphone. Your logic behind the app is wrong and misunderstood, a person cannot do whatever he wants just because he’s doing it with a shenui, with that logic a person would be able to drive with her left foot on shabbos, or start a fire differently than a person would during the would. Not to mention your point that halacha is not per each individual it’s one torah for all, what about your “heter” of shinui it’s depends on the way of a persons individual life??
For starters, it would behoove you to learn about electricity and why contemporary poskim prohibit it. Electricity can be made from wind, water, solar, etc. So actual electricity is only energy and therefore permissible. It is what you do with it that can become assur, such as causing it to burn a filament inside a bulb. Other uses of electricity are considered a derabanon, through without any real substantive backing.
The conclusion from the article The Use Of Electricity On Shabbat And Yom Tov by Rabbi Michael Broyde & Rabbi Howard Jachter states “The use of electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tov is a relatively new, and exceedingly complex, area of halacha. The variety of positions taken by the decisors is broad, and these differences are extremely relevant to the conduct of observant Jews. It is the near unanimous opinion that the use of incandescent lights on Shabbat is biblically prohibited. Beyond that, there is little agreement. Some authorities maintain that any time a circuit is opened or closed a biblical violation occurs. Other authorities insist that the use of electricity absent lights is only a rabbinic prohibition.
– although even those authorities admit that such conduct is prohibited, absent great need, because of tradition.
……keep going, so how exactly is it permisable to use a phone with OLED display? Keeping it on at 1% won’t help you.
On the OLED display, it is not a problem at all, as each pixel does not generate any heat and therefore is no problem turning it on at all.
If there is no heat being generated, why does your phone get hot sometimes?
The phone gets hot from the battery heating up, the LED backlight, also gives off heat. However, the heat is not from the LED bulb but rather due to the inefficiency of the semiconductor processes that generate light . Additionally, even when an LED bulb does get hot it does not reach a temperature to be considered making a fire.