>> THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO.
>> There are a few things that can be done in times of
>> 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.

True

>> 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....

BS.
Car remote control is usually either radio or infrared....neither of which
will be picked up by the cell phone on the 'transmiting end'
and moreso ... transmitted by your phone to the car.


>> THIRD: 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.
BS
*3370# switches on EFR - i.e. better speach encoding but
.... this makes you battery power get consumed even faster
by about 5%
on the other hand
#3370# (i.e. hash at the beginning) switches of EFR, therefore
if you have tis feature enabled by default, yes it can make you
save battery power but only around 1/10 of what this suggestion
claims.

>> FOURTH: How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
>> To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in
>> the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # . 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 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.
>> And, Finally....

This is somewhat also BS nowadays
when they steal your phone, it will probably will be locked and the simplest
way of getting rid of all the restrictions, phone numbers stored in memory
etc. is for them to 'flash' the entire memory of the phone, but that usually
also means rewriting the IMEI with a new value, making the phone
virtually 'virgin'

>> FIFTH: Free 411
no idea we don't have any 411 services in our country

p.s.
if you want some great info related to cell phones I can recommend some of
the articles
at our site http://www.telefoniaplay.com/cellphones/

take care
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