RENDERMAN

I found this information about cell phones interesting...

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 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: Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activa t e, 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: 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 ph one 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: Free Directory Service for Cells

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.

Matt_in_VA

Sorry, all but the disable are myth.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...l%20phones.htm

jukngene

Once again, Snopes.com is your friend before posting messages such as this. If you check, you'll see that most of the 5 points are not completely true, and a couple are just plain false:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp

jukngene

You beat me to the punch, Matt!

RENDERMAN

I guess that takes care of that!!

Are UFO's real?

DrCloud

Thank you Snopes et al.

But the Disable feature (assuming it's correct) is interesting.

I found another way, accidentally. I decided to activate the email feature on my RAZR phone -- this being essentially software that will call the provider's computer, grab your email from whatever server you use for email, and display it on the phone. The cost (for the software I got) is $2 per month plus, of course, the minutes you use doing this.

With the software, something called "RemoMail" from Remoba, Inc., comes a "Poison Pill" that you can set to do the disable thing, at least for whatever email is in the phone's memory along with your login info and so on. I don't know if it zaps the entire phone or not, though, and I'm not going to try it to find out! HPH

Lainey

The free information is out there. But it's for business numbers only and it's a Google number... I'll have to look it up and post it here.

Morris

There is something you should program into your phone. It's the 911 number for your city. The 911 in Calif. gets you the highway patrol, but if you need the police or fire dept down on the corner, find out your city's 911 number (such as 916-0911) and put that in your speed dial.