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10 Useful Tips For Mobile Phone Owners
Mobile phone is a device one has at hand almost all the time. That is why it would be nice to extend its capabilities to make it a kind of all-in-one gear that can be used in our everyday life. There are in fact various accessories and software applications (many of which are freeware) which extend the capabilities of mobile phones much beyond their typical functionality. Here I am going to give some of the most useful examples.
1. Display your phone’s screen over an external monitor or an LCD projector to turn your phone into a portable presentation device or a media player. That can be done using a special adaptor by SPECTEC which can be purchased through many online stores. By the way, some phones, for example some i-Mate models have an AV output, so they can be connected to an external monitor directly without an adaptor.
2. Connect external speakers to your phone to play music at home. That is even easier, appropriate adaptor cables are very cheap and are available at Amazon(dot)com and many other online stores. Most of them convert the phone’s specific output socket to the 3.5 mm standard, which is commonly used in many audio devices.
3. Use your Windows Mobile phone as WiFi hotspot. An application called Mobile Wi-Fi Router lets you use your phone’s Internet connection as a WiFi hotspot, so that you can connect your laptop of PC to the Internet.
4. Control your PC remotely from mobile phone. With LogMeIn software you can control your computer remotely from any computer or mobile phone connected to the Internet.
5. Send and receive faxes on mobile phone. Some phones have a built-in fax feature. For those phones that do not have this feature there are fax applications. Cortado Fax is a fax application available for Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and Blackberry. There is also a similar application, called Simple Internet Fax, for Palm OS and Windows Mobile.
6. Print documents from your Windows Mobile phone. PocketWhere is a Windows Mobile application that prints any document on a mobile device. This program connects to available WiFi networks and can print documents on printers connected to those networks.
7. If you forgot your key inside the car. This trick is reported to work with many mobile phones although not with all. If your key has been accidentally left in the car but you have a spare one at home, try the following trick. Call someone at home and ask them to press the door open button while holding the key close to the phone. You should be holding your mobile phone in about 20 cm from the door lock. The lock will open (hope you will not get into a situation where you will need this trick but you can try it just for fun).
8. Use your mobile device as a remote control. If your mobile device has an IR port, you can use it as a remote control for your TV, DVD player and other home appliances. There are many applications that enable this functionality in mobile phones, for example, NoviiRemote Deluxe for Windows Mobile and Infrared Remote Control for Symbian OS.
9. How to cook an egg using mobile phone. Put two mobile phones on both sides of an egg and a walkman or an iPod with speakers next to them. Call one phone from the other, then play the music to imitate conversation between the two phones. In about one hour your egg will be cooked. This trick is published on many web sites and was verified by some newspaper journalists. Of course, I do not suggest that you use your phone in the kitchen, I just want to remind everyone that it is better to use earphones, especially if one talks a lot.
10. Make cheap international and long distance calls from mobile phone. For that one only needs a phone that can connect to the Internet. There are special applications that allow one to use his or her Skype account from mobile phones to make free calls to other Skype users and very cheap Skype Out calls to regular phones.
About the Author
Leonid Sinichkin is an IT specialist and programmer in the field of system and process automation. He is also an expert PDA user. Visit our tip archive for more mobile phone tips (here is a link for the Russian visitors).
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