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Home --> Inboxer Rebellion --> Household Tips --> Cell Phone Functions

Cell Phone Functions

Claim: E-mail lists five little-known but useful functions associated with cell phones.

Status: Multiple — see below.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, February 2007]

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO !!!

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 Subject: 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 Subject: 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 Subject: 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.

FOURTH Subject: 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. When your phone get 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 Subject:

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, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any
charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.

Origins: The message
reproduced above is (with one exception) a compendium of topics we've
already covered in separate art

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