Mobile Phone Sending My Laptop to Sleep

[The Stig]

Hi there,

I thought I would report this rather strange phenomenon which I just noticed. I was playing round with my mobile phone while sitting at my computer and momentarily put the phone down on top of my laptop on the bottom left hand corner, above the PCMCIA slot. The moment the phone touched the computer, the screen went blank. I thought it had just happened to crash at that particular moment, but it turned out that the computer had simply gone to sleep mode. I tested doing the same again a few time. Putting the phone in that particular spot just sends it to sleep. Heh, it is like a Vulcan never pinch for a laptop. :p This isn't a problem as such, but I was just wondering if something like this has ever happened to anyone else, or better still some wise sole might even know what is going on.

Cheers

[Nebula]

There is a little magnet switch where you put the phone... that's how your laptop knows when the screen is closed and to go to sleep.

[The Stig]

Ah of course, it is so obvious. Feel like a right idiot now.

[CyAn1d3]

There is a little magnet switch where you put the phone... that's how your laptop knows when the screen is closed and to go to sleep.

yea, actually any MINOR fridge magnet would have triggered that. 
for some reason the newer ones use mag connects... i miss the days of physical switches....