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Subj: Re:Things U can do with your mobile
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>From: G4WYW@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
>To : MOBILE@WW
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>THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO
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>
>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: -
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>1 EMERGENCY
>* The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112 .* If you find
>yourself out of 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 dialled even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**
But only for the GSM standard. Not so for CDMA in Australia. For CDMA in
Australia the number is the standard emergency number of 000. FWIW, 000
will also work in Australia on GSM phones but not necessarily for locked
phones or phones without the SIMM card. With GSM phones 112 will work under
all circumstances, providing coverage is available. With 112 calls the phone
will also access other carriers if they happen to be available and your own
isn't.
As an aside, some Australian television viewers are so taken by the
programs they watch that there are recorded instances of the US number of
911 being dialled out here, with tragic consequences.
>2 Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?
>
>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!"*
Ok technical people, think about this one.
Pretty smart phone to be able to act as a transverter from your key's
frequency (probably around 300MHz) to the mobile phone network (operating in a
variety of bands between 850 and 2100MHz, depending on format and
country), and then back again at the car end.
As for the editor's verification, maybe it was the April edition of the
publication.
Cheers ... Ray
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