I just did this with Contenenal Airlines with a layover each way Seattle-Austin on my T-Mobile G1. I also got the "oh, one of these" but mostly it confused the living holy heck out of TSA. Going through the metal detector:
"Please have your boarding passes out!"

"Mine's on my phone!"

"uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... here, pass it over the top of this plexiglass.. ok, now let me go get the scanning gun"

(people behind me grumble as he fools with it)

None of them know you had to scan the whole 2d barcode, I had to show them they couldn't just hold it still. And then when they tried to hold it still, they just showed me the screen that said it couldn't be read and shrugged, "Sorry!" until I just started showing them how to use it before they even asked. Theirs had like a green scanner, and I was able to keep the backlight on. I also left it in the upper corner of the screen without zooming in.

I was suprised the gate agents didn't know it had to be moved across the green scanner either. I did it for them.

I won't be doing this again until after enough rolled-eying TSAs and audible-sighing passengers test it out for me.

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