What is ICE?
ICE stands for “In Case of Emergency”. The idea is that you store the work “I C E” in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted “In Case of Emergency”. In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It’s so simple that everyone can do it!
ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. The intention is that you mark one of your contacts in your cell phones phonebook by adding “ICE” to one of your contacts, who would be the person you want notified if something happens to you. At some point, if emergency personnel haven’t notified a next-of-kin by other means, they would hopefully look in your phonebook, see the ICE contact, and call that person. For example, if you have a phonebook entry named “Mom and Dad” that you want to use for this purpose, you could rename it something like “ICE – Mom and Dad”. Downsides 1) The phone must be easily indentifiable as “yours”. If your phone allows you to alter the screen tag (where it says “US Cellular” or “roaming”), you could put your name instead. Recent Motorola’s and all LG’s since the VX4400 allow this. Not sure about other brands. You could also keep it on a belt clip. 2) The phone must be able to power on, for obvious reasons. 3) The phone’s screen must be readable, again, for obvious r
