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How To Save Cellphone Battery Power

3 months ago

in How To, Phones, Techies

Are you wondering why your cellphone battery power drains fast? Well, there are several things that are causing it. It maybe the applications that are running in the background, playing music/videos and the most taken-for-granted one, Network Mode.

So there are several things you can do to save battery power.

Install a Software to Close Background Apps That are Not in Use

There are softwares out there that are compatible to your phones that can manage your background apps and close them when not in use. For Symbian s60v5, I am using Ramblow. On Ramblow, you can select apps that you can protect, which means it’ll not be closed when Ram flushing is done.

Lower the Music Volume

This is something I’ve noticed, the lower the volume is, the longer your battery life will be. Or just get a separate music player, don’t use your phone as a music player.

Turn Your Network Mode to GSM Only

If you aren’t using the mobile internet (3G), turn it off or on Symbian phones, set your phones to GSM only mode. I don’t know how to set it on other phones but I have two examples to give you.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Just follow these steps). This would be similar to any other versions of Nokia phones except Windows Mobile phones that Nokia is releasing now:

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Nokia + Microsoft = Nokia Windows Phone

1 year ago

in Phones, Techies

I’ve been using Nokia for a long time since Nokia 5110 and I’ve watched them innovate and improve up to their Symbian phones. But now, they are going to adopt Windows Phone to be integrated on their expertise on hardware design, language support and etc.

From CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s open letter, their partnership will combine their respective strengths and will increase their scale and the benefit will be on the consumers, developers, mobile operators and businesses (more…)

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HowTo: Have Your own US Phone Number on Your PC for FREE!

1 year ago

in How To, Internet, Phones, Techies

*Note: This one is for inbound calls only. You cannot make outgoing calls to the US.

Have you ever wished you could have your own US phone number so your family, friends, boyfriend/girlfriend or even your clients (if you’re working online) can call you using their cellphones? I did! And I have found a way to do that for free! I know some techy guys out there already know how to do this. If you are one of them, this post is not for you. This is for those who really need a US number and don’t have enough money to buy/subscribe on online services to meet your needs.

What we need: