How much do you know about your cell phone? I learned a thing or two today about the many advantages to having a cell phone after receiving an email from a co-worker outlining 5 things any cell phone owner may find useful. I couldn't resist sharing this list. We are still testing #2 on
the list. Please let us know if you get any results!
#1 Emergency Phone Number
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.
#2 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. This will save 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).
#3 Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys: *3370# Your
cell 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 next time.
#4 How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your
phone: *#06# (or on a Treo or Smartphone, while at the Dial Pad, press the Menu
Button and the letter "I"). A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This
number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When
your phone gets 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.
#5 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-FREE-411 (800- 373-3411)
without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
(Yellow Pages is also FREE 800-935-5697).
Last year we asked our friend, Gary Demercurio, for some pictures of the dog he rescued - Hiroko - a very young and very adorable Akita. Hiroko (generous child in Japanese) and Gary lived for a few months together in their North End apartment seeing the sites and selectively marking their own territories. Then Gary took a job in Connecticut at Sikorski, the helicopter manufacturer. Now they have plenty of room to lounge about suburbia. It only took about a few hundred days to get Gary to send us some photos of Hiroko but we've finally got them to share. Hopefully he'll keep us updated with more photos before the next leap year returns.
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