Five Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do

RightBias ^ | May 10, 2008

[nancyvideo]

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: Emergency The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobiles 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: 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 ..

[piytar]

Um, actually the range on a RKE fob with good batteries is about 300 feet. Try it across town. Does not work.

[piytar]

For that car thing to work, the fob must be soun based (OLD tech) and the phones must be high end. If the fob is a modern RKE radio frequency fob, the following would have to happen: the microphone in the sending cell would have to act as an antenna, the amplifier connected to tha mic would have to work on an 800,000,000 signal when it is designed for 100 to 20,000 Hz, the phone would have to encode the 800,000,000 signal on a 300,000,000 Hz carrier (impossible), the entire cell/PCS network between the phones would have to carry the 800,000,000 signal intact, the receiving phone would have to decode it properly, and the 20,000 Hz max speaker on the receiving cell would have to work as an 800,000,000 transmitting antenna. Not gonna happen...

[RFEngineer]

“But, I tried this with my ‘99 Camry, and it didn’t work.”

I think you need to take your ‘99 Camry in to the dealer and ask to have the gullibility checked. You might be a quart low.

[RFEngineer]

“We successfully unlocked my husband’s car this way. I was at the far back of the house - there was no way the signal travelled that far other than through the cell phone.”

I’ll bet it won’t work when he locks his keys in the car at the local tavern. I’ll bet he’d like to give that a try. ;^)

[Luigi Vasellini]

cell phone bump

[Erasmus]

We tried trick no. 2 and it did not work.

That's only because it's impossible.

[reefdiver]

Try it , its a load of bs

[Cruz]

ping

[Gigantor]

useful ping

[nancyvideo]

“Not sure where in the world this article applies to, but in the US the emergency number is 911. Even for a deactivated cell phone 911 will still work on it ... it will search for *any* active carrier in order to connect to the 911 system.”

This works in all areas, especially Europe, except where cell phone signal is blocked

[Hyzenthlay]

Last summer, a friend and I tried that with her new Razr and her 5-6-year-old car, and it worked just fine, and we were a couple hundred yards apart.

[NucSubs]

SECOND: 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!"

Bull Sh--. Tried it twice. Did not work.