5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Can Do

[ukrkoz]

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5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do !!

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5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do
For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.)

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave
emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST
Emergency: The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked
our car over a cell phone!'

THIRD
Hidden Battery Power: Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell phone next time.

FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone is stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.


And Finally....
FIFTH
Free Directory Service for Cells: Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.

[FrankB43015]

I hate to out you in public, but I've read all of these before and whenever I receive something like this I go to the best source to verify the facts -www.snopes.com.
On there I found that only #5 listed on your post to be totally true, but I suggest using 1-800-goo-g411 which is a better service and no ad to listen to.
#4 is partially true - if your phone is equipped with a SIM card.

The rest are simply not true at all.

[ukrkoz]

Originally Posted by FrankB43015

I hate to out you in public, but I've read all of these before and whenever I receive something like this I go to the best source to verify the facts -www.snopes.com.
On there I found that only #5 listed on your post to be totally true, but I suggest using 1-800-goo-g411 which is a better service and no ad to listen to.
#4 is partially true - if your phone is equipped with a SIM card.

The rest are simply not true at all.

little correction.
1. you are not outing me , but one who wrote the article.
2. that free 411 thing does work and yes, you have to listen to paul from mcdonald. so you have a btter one? hoorray, thanks for sharing, and i mean it. i have it on my phone from now on.
3. one about getting code for your phone does work either. so wouldn't say all of them don't work.
4. we just tried the remote thing. and it does NOT work. at least, on my phone, which is cingular 8125 pda. but it was fun to do, as i had my son driving down the road about .25 mile to "bust the myth".
5. and i have just tried goog-411, and it does work. see, we all have learned something. oh, and it's 800-466-4411

[silicon212]

There is no way possible that #2 could work. The car's remote key fob uses radio to communicate with the car - and while you can modulate an audio signal (AF) onto a radio signal (RF), you cannot modulate RF onto an AF signal and that's what #2 purports to do.