Tuesday, July 15, 2008

How to choose a cell phone that suitable for you

What I want to talk here is, How choose a cell phone with the best value comparing to the price. In this articel I won't show your type of cell phone that people search most or people want most. I just want to guide you how to get a cell phone, that you need it most, event you never think it before.

Here is three step to choose a cell phone that suitable your you :

1. The very basic step. List your primary need for your cell phone.

People usually always look at the features of the cell phones, the size, and other. That is not wrong at all, but the problem is Usually people love to buy a very high sophisticated cell phone, with bunches of features, that they might never use that features.

For example, some people bought an HSDPA cellphone, but they never connect internet trough that cellphone. So it means they spend more money for the features that they do not use.

Another example, I have a friend that he intend to buy PDA phone, he choose HTC Tytn II which cost more than $500. Poor him, soon he sold his cell phone, and said "the phone doesn't have keypad". how fool he is :D

So the very simple step to choose a cell phone that suitable for you is list your primary features that you need. and then the additional feature that you might will use it.


I give you another ilustration, a man love simplicity, his purpose to use a cellphone is only for sms, call, and a loud speaker phone. So he list the cell phone requirements :
1. Can make or receive a call and sms
2. Have a speaker phone
3. slim and light


2. List Additional features

If you don't have much money, you can ignore this step. Now we talk about additional feature on your cell phone that you might need it. it is not mandatory
for example :
1. feel comfortable in your hand
2. HSDPA function
3. games (to kill your time when you wait for something, I assume you don't like reading)


3. Price
After you know your need, that is 80% step to choose your cell phone.Now Let's start search you phone, comparing price browsing the internet. Remember you have your requirements, keep it while you search you phone.


Hope you enjoy it

Monday, July 7, 2008

Tips how to make your cell phone batteries live longer

Mobile phones have come a long way in terms of features and styling, but the question of battery life, or have enough of it, remains strong. Yes, you can keep your battery Juiced up all the day when you do not talk on the phone, but what's the use that? And sure, you can admit your portable charger to work with you, but try to use for a night on the city - it is simply not practicable. Fortunately, all hope is not lost - with a fast adjustments here and there, you can extend the life of the battery of the phone hours and sometimes days.

Here is some failure indicators for your cell phone batteries
  1. The uptime after recharging is shortened.
  2. The battery is getting hot abnormally during recharging.
  3. The battery becomes abnormally warm when you use your phone.
  4. The battery case is often inflated. You can detected by the touching the battery. So when the battery is placed on a flat, smooth surface, it will maintain a movement of spin. The case of a healthy battery is flat and you can not spin it.
  5. The battery develops a hard spot. This is detectable inside phone on the side of the surface of the battery pinch gently on the surface between the fingers.


But the fastest way to check the cell phone batteries is by activating ringtones, vibration, and make a phone call to that phones. It will force a cell phone to use a lot of power consumptions. When you saw the battery status indicator in your cell phone suddenly low/drop, then I can assure you that it's time to replace your battery.

The key is : how is your habit using your cell phones

Here is ten tips from Thilaga how to keep your cell phone battery live longer.

  1. Turn off everything, all the sounds useless (keytones, alerts). One of my biggest pet Peeves is how most phones these days come with keytones. People really listen to their phone beep, Strum a note of music, or chime whenever they press a button? You would like, but ask your neighbour. Moreover, these turn out will save you a good dose of juice battery. Think of all the treatment, he must take charge of these lunch (or what they are) when you touch a key role - in addition, they are boring.

  2. Avoid using vibrate or Use either a ring or vibrate, but not both. Because the phone need more power consumption to spin the vibrator inside your cell phones. I understand if you're in a concert or a strong party you want to increase your chances of actually achieve your phone rings, but other than that to choose one or the other. It is not necessary to have your ringer all the way to the point where it has both the sound and active alerts vibrate, so I recommend against it. Personally, I have on my phone vibrates at any time, regardless of where I am. If you're worried not hear your phone when it is on vibrate, put it on a table and I promise you hear. Or better yet, put it in a dish filled with coins!

  3. Decrease your screen's brightness to 50%. Go to the settings menu on your phone and change brightness of the LCD. In a first step, the screen is dark, but once your eyes have adapted to it, you'll forget. The LCD screen on your phone is one of the biggest (if not the greatest) power consumer on your phone. So turn it down, and you're on your way to a longer battery life.

  4. Put your backlight setting lower. Most phones these days you can adjust the amount of your time backlight stays once you stop touching buttons. The default on most phones is probably around 15-30 seconds, but there are parameters that are much lower. I suggest that turning down to 3-5 seconds to increase the live of your battery. If it starts makes you uncomfortable, then set it back. Note: My phone backlight is set to go off after 5 seconds and it does not bother me at all.

  5. Turn off Bluetooth when you're not using it. This may be an easy to forget if you are often changing between using a Bluetooth headset and ear piece. Turn Bluetooth off when not in use to save your phone. If you use infrared turn off when you're not using it as well.

  6. Close applications while your're not using it. This only affects those of us who have smartphones. Why do you need to keep this game on pause when you do not need it? Or Pocket Excel open? Simply save and close them and you can save your batteries.

  7. Keep your phone in a cool climate. I know that most of the time you will not have a choice where to keep your phone - because it goes with you at all times. But when you have a choice - for example, when you are at home - do not put your phone on the hot stove, or on your super hot MacBook Pro or something like that. Also, do not keep your phone in a car. If you have extra batteries for your phone, go ahead and store the data in the fridge - but make sure you do not freeze. BatteryUniversity recomments store to a 40% for best results.

  8. Cool When you're phone is fully charged, unplug the charger! There is a myth that you can over-charge your battery if you leave it plugged. According BatteryUniversity, "When the battery is fully charged, no other charge is applied." So, if no other charge is applied, then why do you need to unplug your phone? You want to protect your battery from heat, that's why. When the phone is running off the AC long, extended heat May damage the battery.

  9. Do not let your battery discharge. If you leave your battery often die, you put additional strain on the battery. Avoid this by plugging the phone before he dies all courses.

  10. Do not do anything fun on your phone. I mentioned this above, but I'm serious here. If you have fun on your phone, your battery life dramatically decrease. Access to the Internet, play games, navigation by GPS and capture photos or video are avoided to do when you're in the middle of nowhere without a charger.