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THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU CELLPHONE COULD

Book Abstract by: sreenuchowdary    

Original Author: Sreenivas
* THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONECOULD* .. There are a few thingsthat can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your
mobile phone canactually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check outthe things that you can do with it: - **EMERGENCY** **I** *TheEmergency Number worldwide for**Mobile** is 112.* If you find yourselfout of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency,dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establishthe emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can bedialed even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.** **II* ***Subject:*Have you locked your keys inthe car? Does you car have remote keys?*This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If youlock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call Someoneat home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phoneabout a foot from yourcar door and have the person at your home pressthe unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Yourcar 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 youcan reach someone who has the other remote for your car, you can unlockthe doors (or the trunk). Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried itout and it unlocked our car over a cell phone! * **III* **Subject:*Hidden Batterypower Imagine your cell Battery is very low, you areexpecting an important call and you don't have a charger. Nokiainstrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, press the keys*3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument willshow a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when youcharge your cell next time. *AND* **IV** How to disable a STOLEN mobilephone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number,key in the followingdigits on your phone: * * # 0 6 #* A 15 digit code will appear on thescreen.This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep itsomewhere safe. when your phone get stolen, you can phone your serviceprovider and give them this code. They will then be able to block yourhandset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will betotally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, butat leastyou know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybodydoes this, there would be nopoint in people stealing mobile phones.Processing data, please wait ...
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Published: October 26, 2006
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