Cell Phone Tips & Tricks

Making phone calls? Is that all?? There's so much more your cell phone can do. Let's begin by agreeing that a cell phone is not just a phone without wires. It's a whole different ball game.

Before you do anything else, make sure you've protected yourself before your phone gets stolen. Now is the time to do something about it, not after the proverbial horse has been stolen.

MobileActive

A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide. The time is right for mobile activism; there are 3 billion cell phones worldwide. Mobile phones have been used to mobilize hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators in countries across the world with text messages and brilliant political ringtones.

How to Become an Eco Bounty Hunter

It seems so easy: recycle your old cell phones. Them sitting in a drawer somewhere is only slightly better than tossing them in the trash.

Grand Central: One Phone Number For Life

Google is offering us one phone number for life that rings all your phones and more. "How much more?" Read the feature list. Sounds impressive and it's Google! If anyone has the backend to pull of something like this, it's our favorite server farmers.

They're also linked up with the Gizmo5, adding even more to the mix.

MegaPhone: gaming on your cell phone

You like to play games. You like your cell phone. Advertisers want your soul. Get where I'm going? Yep, the signs beckon you to play with your phone. That's MegaPhone's vision.

Spoken Buzz: Free Calls, Click-to-Call for websites, emails, etc.

Spoken Buzz lets you control who calls you, when, and how. Or as they say, "Sell stuff on Craigslist, eBay, classifieds while protecting your phone number." Call them back and they still don't get your real number. Perfect for small businesses, online dating, blogs, or hundreds of other situations.

Trapser: have cell phone, no speeding tickets

With Trapster you'll know where speed traps are and you'll help others avoid them too. Dodging radar meets social networking via mobile phones. The best part is that the more people who use it, the better it gets. Paul Revere meets cell phones.

Vumber: the "spam catcher" for real life

Vumber is a virtual number linked to your home, cell, or work phone. It allows you to "hide" behind a virtual number (vumber, get it?). Sounds like what women having been giving guys they didn't want to hear from for years. You can have more than one and it comes with voice mail.

Amphibian: cell phones + voicemail

Use Amphibian to manage your mobile voicemail like email, turn your voicemail into text, and make mobile calls from any browser or web page.

Jott: cell phones replace scraps of paper

Cell phones. How do we get along before them? In support of your continuing efforts to squeeze as much outta your cellie as you can, read these cell phone tips.

Another new cell phone-based service that tries to solve an analog problem with a digital solution, Jott wants to capture thoughts, create to-dos and set reminders with a simple phone call.

ShoZu: make your world mobile

At first glance ShoZu seems to make your phone do everything: upload photos, download feeds, geotag photos and videos, etc., etc. Almost too good to be true. ShoZu lets you interact with Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Friendster, Picassa, Blogger, LiveJournal, and more. They even let you FTP from your phone. When I have some time to kill I'm going to play with ShoZu!