Top 9 Cell Phone Tips

If you're a normal student, you probably love your cell phone. It provides a connection to all the important people in your life. But did you know that the cell phone can actually be a handy device for aiding in homework and studies, and it can be a great safety feature, as well?

1. Cell Phones and Time Management

Reminders and alarms are some of the most useful tools on a cell phone, but they are also the least appreciated.

Most cell phones come with a scheduler to allow you to set an alarm at a certain time of day or on a certain date. You can set alarms to remind you of an established daily homework time to keep you from chatting right through your work time. For instance, you can set up a beeper that goes off every night at 7.

You could also use calendar reminders to notify you when projects and assignments are due. These reminders can be set up weeks and months ahead of time.

2. Group Communication

If you find yourself working on a group project or needing the advice of a few friends as you do your history homework, try using the three-way calling feature. It’s available on most cell phones.

You may not even be aware that this feature is available on your phone, so you may want to experiement a little. First call one friend and establish a clear connection. Then enter the number of a second friend on the keypad and press send. If your phone has the three-way feature, then the second call will go through and the first friend will be on hold. Simply press send again to re-connect with the first friend.

3. Cell Phone as Audio Tool

Some cell phones come equipped with a voice recorder. This tool can be priceless if you tend to forget things. You can use the recorder to remember homework assignments, to memorize terms, to practice foreign language pronunciation, and dozens of other tasks. It’s a great feature for auditory learners.

If your phone doesn’t have the voice recording feature, you can accomplish many of the same tasks by sending yourself a voice message.

4. Pictures and Illustrations

More and more phones come equipped with picture-sharing features. This is important because pictures can be used as illustrations in reports and presentations. If you’re in the library or out and about and you see an image that would work for a project, simply capture the image on your phone.

The are several ways you may be able to save and transfer the picture. Depending on the cell phone, you may be able to use a memory card, Bluetooth technology, or a USB cable that connects your cell phone with your computer. You may have to do a little detective work to find the best method for your phone.

5. Podcasts

Right now it’s pretty expensive and cumbersome to access a podcast from most cell phones, since many cell phones require the middle step of downloading a podcast to a computer. But technology is barreling along pretty quickly. With the advent of cell phone/MP3 player combos, the prospect of widespread podcast sharing is growing ever more likely. Look for teachers/professors sending podcasts and students accessing them more and more.

6. Cell Phones and Ebooks

If your phone has a built-in Internet browser, you have a whole library at your fingertips! Basically, if you can access the Internet through your phone, you can read ebooks from a variety of great sites.

One good source for ebooks comes from text2ph.com, a site that allows you to access books stored on its server. You just download a few pages at a time. There are hundreds of ebooks available on the site. You don’t even have to download any software to use this service.

Cell Phone Tips for Safety

7. Sending Money

There may be times when you need to travel to conduct research or to visit prospective colleges. Parents may be interested to know that your cell phone can provide some security while you’re on the road.

PayPal Mobile works with an existing PayPal account to send and receive money. If you find yourself stranded on the road, your parents can send money to you and you can send money to others (like a towing service) via text messaging.

This feature takes some effort and time to set up, so you may want to consider checking it out now, before you actually need it.

8. Getting Directions

Afraid of getting lost on the road? Google Maps may provide the answer. The Google Mobile Web site provides many services, including step-by-step directions to and from locations, complete with satellite photos and maps. This is another free feature that you should check out and practice ahead of time!

9. Remote Keys

Finally, no student should get stuck on the road with car keys locked inside the car. There may be a solution to this potential disaster. Some cell phones can transmit your remote key signal. It works like this:

Using your cell phone, call someone who has access to your spare remote keys—but you must call them on another cell phone. Ask that person to hold your press “unlock” into their phone. At the same time, you hold your phone within a foot of your car door. The signal can unlock your door! This doesn’t work with all keys and all phones, but it’s worth a try. See if it works!

Facts about Cell Phones

There is no question about it. The cell phone has completely changed the way that the world lives. From America to Africa, there isn’t a continent that hasn’t been affected by this technology. The sweeping popularity of the cell phone is unprecedented in World History.

• It is estimated that 250-300 million cell phones are currently being used in the U.S.
• There is one cell phone for every two people in the world, which is a grand total of about 3.3 billion cell phones that are actively in use.
• There are more than 30 African nations that have more cell phones than land mines.
• More than 1,000 cell phones are activated each minute.
• The average American cell phone owner has 3 outdated, unused cell phones in his possession.
• Most Americans only use their cell phone for 12 to 18 months before replacing it with a new model.
• According to recent information from the FDA cell phones do not pose a health hazard. They do emit low levels of radiofrequency (RF) energy, but there has been no proof that the level of RF produced, causes any health issues. One can reduce any perceived risk by using a hands free device, which significantly reduces the small amount of RF energy that a cell phone user is exposed to.
• A study by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research showed that 83% of people believe that cell phones make their lives easier. The cell phone even beat out the Internet in this survey.
• Technology has come a long way in just a few short decades. Evidence of this can be seen in the fact that an iPhone has more processing power than the North American Air Defense Command did in 1965.
• Cell phones can help authorities find an owner’s location if he is ever lost or injured. Of course, calling 911 is always best, if possible, but if one is unable to send out a call, his location can be tracked based on the towers that his cell phone is pinging. A cell phone does have to be turned on in order to ping towers, so if one is trying to conserve battery, one should make sure that it is turned on now and then so that there will be a record of the towers that his cell phone has been pinging. It does not give an exact location, but if a person is missing, searchers will have a basic area to cover based on that person’s cell phone’s signals. This is why, if one is able to call 911 and give a specific location, that is the best way to get help. But cell phones are important to have nearby in case of any emergency.
• Cell phones can be recycled. There are many great non-profit groups who are willing to take old cell phones and refurbish them for needy people such as military men and women who are stationed overseas. Not only is this a great way to be eco-friendly, but it also provides the heroes of this country with a way to stay in touch with their family while overseas. Unfortunately, only 2.3% of Americans recycle their old cell phones and 7% throw them away. This is because over 70% of Americans are not aware that cell phones can be recycled.

No matter how you look at it, the cell phone is one of the greatest inventions of all time. There is no question about it, the cell phone is no longer a novelty, but is now a necessity for today’s fast-paced life.

Be careful to use mobile phone

When you try to call someone through mobile phone, don’t put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers, Because directly after dialing, the mobile phone would use it’s maximum signaling power, which is: 2watts = 33dbi. Be Careful its harmful.

Also Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it may affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team

FACTS & PROBLEM FOR CELL PHONE

Most of the new digital cell phones have some sort of entertainment programing on them, ranging from simple dice-throwing games to memory and logic puzzles.
About 22% of American teenagers (more girls than boys) own a cell phone and it is now possible to locate a person using a cellular phone down to a range of a few meters anywhere in the world!
The GSM standard for digital cell phones was established in Europe in the mid-1980's; long before digital cell phones became common place in America. Cell phones are more popular in Europe than they in the United States with more than 60 percent of Europeans owning a cell phone; compared to about 40 percent of Americans owning a cell phone.

Facts for Cell Phone:
One of the most interesting features of a cell phone is it is really a radio -- a very sophisticated radio, but a radio nonetheless. Wireless communications can trace its roots to the invention of a radio by Nikolai Tesla in the 1880's. Alexander Bell - Meets Tesla and it was only a matter of time before these two technologies would merge.
In the days before cell phones, people who needed mobile-communication ability installed radio telephones in their cars. In the radio-telephone system, there was one central antenna tower per city, and perhaps 25 channels available on that tower. This central antenna meant that the phone in your car needed a very powerful transmitter; one big enough to transmit 40 or 50 miles (about 70 km). It also meant that not many people could use them as there just were just not enough channels to go around. (Rem,mber the ol' *party line*?)

The genius of the cell system is the division of a city into small cells (ergo the name) that allows extensive frequency reuse across a city so that millions of people can use cell phones at the same time. In the typical analog cell phone system of the USA, the cell phone carrier receives about 800 frequencies to use across a city. The carrier chops up the city into cells. Each cell is typically sized at about 10 square miles (26 square kilometers).

A single cell in an analog system uses one-seventh of the available duplex voice channels. That is, each cell (of the seven on a hexagonal grid) is using one-seventh of the available channels so it has a unique set of frequencies and there are no collisions: In other words, in any cell, many people can all be talking on their cell phone at the same time. With digital transmission methods, the number of available channels increases. Some digital systems can carry three times as many calls as an analog system can, so each cell has about 168 channels available at one time.

If you take a cell phone apart, you find that it contains just a few individual parts: A circuit board (which contains the "brains" of the phone) An antenna A liquid crystal display or more commonly called a (LCD) A keyboard A microphone A speaker A battery

Problem with Cell Phones:

Generally, non-repairable internal corrosion of parts results if you get the phone wet or use wet hands to push the buttons. If the phone does get wet, be sure it is totally dry before you switch it on so you can try to avoid damaging internal parts. (Use a hair-dryer or bathroom hand dryer.) Extreme heat in a car can damage the battery or the cellphones electronics. Extreme cold may cause a momentary loss of the screen display. Analog cell phones suffer from a problem known as "cloning." A phone is "cloned" when someone steals its ID numbers and is then able to make fraudulent calls on the owner's account.

Here is how cloning occurs: When your phone makes a call, it transmits the ESN and MIN to the network at the beginning of the call. The MIN/ESN pair is a unique tag for your phone -- this is how the phone company knows who to bill for the call. When your phone transmits its MIN/ESN pair, it is possible for nefarious sorts to listen (with a scanner ) and capture the pair. With the right equipment, it is fairly easy to modify another phone so that it contains your MIN/ESN pair, which allows the nefarious sort to make calls on your account