Mobile Phone Tips For All

Mobile Phone Tips For All

By:




As any computer (and most modern mobile phones are actually computers, even those that are not called a smartphone or a PDA) a mobile phone has virtually unlimited functionality. However, what one can really do with it depends on the software installed on the phone and on the accessories used. Here I am going to describe some very useful things that can be easily done with almost any mobile phone.

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 you phone to external speakers and use it as a music player. 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. If you have a Windows Mobile phone, you can print faxes, e-mails, SMS messages and other documents using PocketWhere application. 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. To find more details and more tips visit Skype Mobile site (the same tips in Russian).



Article Originally Published On: http://www.articlesnatch.com


Tags: , , , , , , ,

|

Loading...
Related....
Videos...

Recent Computers-and-Technology Articles

Comments

Still can't find what you are looking for? Search for it!

Loading

Site Navigation:

Copyright 2005-2011 ArticleSnatch, LLC - All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service.