This is a touchey subject with some carriers. The FCC regulate what information can be released to the public, and there are the laws that protect infromation of people to be released to the general public.

Now, there are exceptions, some carriers go through these regulations in order to better save the customer and have the ability to seacurely release the information.

Most carriers don’t even bother with this due to system changes and special regulations. It is a matter of what the carrier chooses to do. In some cases, the carrier chooses not to mess with it and just to send you your outgoing calls.

It is easier and less costly, and they instruct there employees to blame the FCC or “Privacy laws”.

The downside to this is there is nothing you can do to retriver this information nor change the way that they operate.

In the UK and to my knowledge all the cell phones that are sold here have a caller ID function of some sort or other, without it I don’t think mobiles would be as convenient as they are due to the fact that when you store contacts in your phone their number would not show when they call and you would always be in the dark with respects to who is calling you.On most phones you do have the option to hide you number from being displayed on the recipients phone.

However, the phone would still register the call but it would say it is from a “Private Number” in which case there is no way of discovering the number. Your associate’s voice mail service may or may not store the number of callers who leave messages but it is not a given!

You may like to check to see if your number appears when you call others, just to make sure that you are not withholding your number inadvertently?
Unfortunately there is no way of saying whether you associate is telling the truth or not.

Unfortunately you can’t find out what number called you if the caller is hiding his ID. It depends on your phone model, but go to Settings, Security, Call Barring.

If you find ‘incoming calls except from contacts list’, this will make you receive only calls from your contacts, but I think all phones only have the option ‘incoming calls’ which make you receive no calls at all.

Anyway, if someone is annoying - threatening you, call your network straight away.

In looking at maps for Verizon and Cingular it looks like most areas are covered well by both providers. There are pockets that have lesser coverage, but the majority of the area looks good. You are going to find the prices for their rate plans are pretty similar and both providers will have low cost devices.

If you are interested in the “Push-to-Talk” feature (which you referred to as “Walkie-Talkie”, Cingular has this feature for their users. The cost is $9.99 per user for unlimited push to talk. It is an add-on to their voice plans. Keep in mind that you must have a voice plan in order to have the PTT add-on.

Both Cingular and Verizon have Family rate plans which allow you to pool your minutes (for all your employees) which would save on costs. Also, with either provider, calls between your employees will not count towards your minutes because they are considered “mobile-to-mobile” and the majority of the rate plans include free, unlimited mobile to mobile calls.

Regarding customer service, Verizon was rated number 1 and Cingular was rated number 2. These types of surveys are typically conducted by companys hired by the providers, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in these. I would base my decision about customer service and reputation more on word of mouth, i.e., people you know who have had good (or bad) experiences. This is a much better indicator.

The good news is that you can try each of the providers’ service and if you are not happy with the coverage, you can cancel your service without penalty - with Verizon, you have 15 days, with Cingular you have 30 days. If you are not satisfied with the service, you can return the device and cancel your service without penalty. You only pay for the minutes you used, i.e., pro-rated portion of the rate plan that you signed up for. No termination fees.

So, if I were you, I would pick either Verizon or Cingular and get one or two devices and try them for the trial period. If you are happy with the service, then I would get the rest of the devices. If you are unhappy, then I would try the other provider. Or better yet, get two devices from Verizon and two from Cingular (and perhaps even two from Sprint - they have a 14 day return policy) and see which ones work best for your employees. This way, you can see for yourself what works best for you and your employees and you won’t have to guess or trust what the providers tell you.

One more FYI, all the providers will claim “least dropped calls, most reliable network, largest network”, etc., but keep in mind that your location and the phone device also has a lot to do with your experience. Dropped calls typically relate more to the phone devices themselves.

One last thing. Verizon uses CDMA technology for their voice users and Cingular uses GSM (Sprint uses CDMA and T-Mobile uses GSM). GSM is the “global” standard, so people who travel overseas and want to use their phones, would want a GSM provider.

If you have absolutely no signal at your house and have to travel a distance before you pick up a signal the prospects are grim. If you have some kind of signal outside of house then an external antenna should help you. The external antenna is the nature os signle used in cellular phones.

Televisions operate in a different frequency range than cellular phones, so hooking up to the television because you think it will improve or signal, will not improve your signal at all. Stick antennas, are of little help as well. But most of the cellular phone stores do sell regulare antennas for cellular phones.

In addition to an external antenna, an inline amplifier would strengthen your signal even more. External mount cell phone antennas can give you better strengthen indoors as well. To stay up to date with your antenna signal, you should update your cellular phone, to the most recent tower listing at least once a mouth.

But be careful to get one that works with digital phones. The old style phones that worked on analong will not work with digital phones.

There are antenna’s that you can mount on the roof of your house. This, of course, would require you to be connected to the antenna. Cellular Compnaies have booster or temp sites that they use to boost the signal for events.

However, to get one of these antennas would be very expensive and I’m not too sure where you would be able to even get one.

Your best change for gaining a signal in your house will be with a Yagi antenna on the roof with a cellular amplifier in the antenna line to boost the signal.

The Yagi antenna is a directional antenna that you aim at the tower. There are two Yagi antennae for cellular. One is for the 800 MHz band and the other is for the 1900 MHz band.

In order to find out which one of this bands are in your location, you will need to contact your cell phone company. So that they can determine which one is in that location.

The Cell Zone wireless cell phone signal booster is a revolutionary, patent pending new product that greatly improves indoor cell phone coverage. There are no monthly fees, no programs to install, and no calls to the carrier to set up service. Simply put the signal antenna outdoors where there is signal, run the cable to the base unit, plug it in and instantly you have created a new cell zone! The signal booster captures the wireless signal outside, brings it inside to the antenna amplifier and enhances, or boosts, the cell phone signal in your home or office where you need it the most. The signal booster not only reduces/eliminates static and dropped calls, but it also improves battery life of your wireless phone since your cell phone uses less power when the signal is stronger. And unlike other lesser quality cell phone signal boosters out in the market, the Cell Zone works wirelessly so you do not need to plug your cell phone into the booster!

If a particular carrier uses both frequencies in your area, the website will list that carrier several times in order of the most cell sites of a particular frequency within your zip code.

You can visit a mobile service centre and they should be able to reset the lock code for a small fee. Alternatively you could try entering the lock code incorrectly 3 times or until it asks for your PUK code. Once it asks for your PUK code, you can enter it and your lock code should be reseted to default settings (maybe 12345). This is the case with alot of Nokia phones, but it could erase your contacts. To be safe, you might be better off going using my first suggestion.

The wireless providers use either the SIM card number from GSM providers (Cingular and T-Mobile) or the ESN number on a device (Verizon and Sprint) to associate your wireless number. These numbers should never be given out to anyone except your provider (or authorized reseller). I can’t imagine why a game company needs your IMEI number, except because they may put that into a database to associate you with the “license” he is providing to you. There is no way that he can track your IMEI since it is not sent through anything wirelessly. Personally, I would not send your actual IMEI. I would take a look at your IMEI on your device and then change the last three or four digits and send that to him. He won’t know the difference, believe me. It’s the first 5-7 digits or so that identify the type of device, so if you tell him you have a Motorola Razr, for example, and he knows anything about IMEI’s, he will know that the Razr’s IMEI starts with 3571234, for example (not real, just an example).

In this case, sending the IMEI number should be fine. The person needs it to prevent software piracy. Each phone has a unique number to identify it, so once the person has your IMEI number, the passcode will only work for your phone. Its just a safeguard to prevent you from passing the game onto someone else.
An IMEI number is also used to disable a phone, so for example your phone was stolen, if you were to contact your network provider quoting your IMEI number, they’ll be able to disable the phone, so whoever has it wont be able to use it, even if they were to place their own sim card into it. Of course, I’m sure network providers ask security questions first to make sure you were the owner of the phone.

Your IMEI number is a unique number that identifies your phone. For example, if I had that number I could remotely hack into your phone and empty your credits.

Small-business owners, who work in an office or at home, quickly forget that there is a whole, real world out there. It’s so easy to get caught up in what you’re doing and what is going on in the office that you forget about the real people out there who could use what you’re selling.

Particularly people who have online businesses tend to focus on online marketing methods. The problem with this is that you are really limiting your exposure.

At the same time as you’re competing with another business or consultant in the next city, there are hundreds of people in your very suburb that need you!

Take a trip to your local mall and start thinking about all of the ways that you can market your business to the people around you. Everyone goes to the mall once in a while and it’s the perfect opportunity to get back in touch with what’s real.

Think about the things they are doing that day, the things they’ll be seeing and the things they’ll be buying. Think about the roads they’ll travel on to get to where they’re headed. Keep a note book handy and scribble in your ideas—you’ll have plenty to write down.

Once you’ve gotten back in touch with the real world, make a decision to start a simple marketing campaign that very day. For example go home and print 300 well thought-out pamphlets and get somebody to distribute them to people who might be interested in your product.

If you sell ink jet refills, ask your distributor to target people in suits.

If you sell low-end cellphones, ask your distributor to target casually dressed adults and even teenagers.

Try and make sure that you can track responses to your campaign. For example offer a 10% discount when somebody brings your pamphlet with them or mentions a special code on the pamphlet over the phone.

This will give you an idea of what works and what doesn’t. If you get no response or a bad response then start looking at ways to fix it.

One problem could be with your distributor. Another could be with the way that you wrote your pamphlet.

Research ways to improve your advertising and keep trying until you start getting a response that is worth the money you spend on printing and distributing.

After that, think up other ways that you can market your business to the man in the street because he is going to be there anyway, so he might as well be reading your pamphlet!

There are many different types of cellular phone plans that all sport different features and services for different people. Each of these plans offer different cellular phones to go along with the package and most of the time, they allow people to pay off that phone while they’re paying for their plan. One of the most popular plans that people are choosing above the rest are family plans, which enable every member of your family to have their own phone. Generally this type of plan helps to save a great deal of money. So in this article we are going to go through all the advantages to signing up for a family plan, as well as discussing all the different features that are available with this service.

Why?

Well as communication starts to become more and more important day after day, many parents are finding it hard to keep up with what their children are doing, mainly parents who have teenagers of course! Basically every teenager wants to have their own cellular phone and really can you blame them? Everyone has a one these days and there are of course so many benefits to owning one.

The first being that if an emergency happens and you need to contact someone, having a cell phone will allow you to do this faster compared to having to search for a phone box, which may of course be the difference between life and death! The second is that it’s now becoming increasingly important to communicate with people as fast as possible.

We live in an age where communication runs our lives, where information can be passed within the blink of an eye and if we are not keeping up with technology, then we’re just watching the world pass us by. Anyway enough blabbering on, let’s discuss the reasons why you should get on a family plan, presuming you have a family to share with of course!

Basically the best possible reason why you should sign up for a family plan is because you are going to save a whole lot of money. If you have already decided that you want your kids to have their own phones, then you need to start shopping around. Don’t just sign up for the first plan you hear about. Spend a whole day shopping around.

Firstly try the internet because it’s probably going to be the fastest way to find the plan for you and secondly it means you won’t have to put up with annoying sales people looking to see you anything they can just so they can get a commission. If you do decide to go shopping down at the local mall, make sure you don’t allow anyone to sway your opinion. Ask the questions by all means but don’t let them sell you something you are not sure about.

Find out the call rates on every plan possible and make an educated decision. You could save hundreds of dollars just by making the right decision!

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Nokia originally developed SMS to send short text messages between cell phones. Cell phones also use this technic to receive and send non-text information like graphics and ringtones. An sms ringtone can be sent to the phone via sms.
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On some cell phones like the Nokia 3650, 7650, 9210 and 9290 you can listen to any WAV file. WAV files can be downloaded or copied from PC and can contain anything - voice, music etc.

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People can be wildly predictable creatures at times. Now, this is not to say that all people act in an identical manner, but it does infer that there are certain traits that all people share equally. Probably the most common trait people share is the part of human nature that attracts people to getting a good deal on a product.

Simply put, people love to get things for nothing. There really is no better deal than a deal that offers an item free of charge with no strings attaches and, most importantly, offers a product that is very valuable and appreciated. Now, keep in mind, getting something for “nothing” does not refer to acquiring something without any effort. It refers to getting a good or service without having to pay for it!

There will be those people, however, who prefer to stay away from free items because there is some justifiable aversions towards free products because of the fear that a free product may not be reliable. As such, a person with aversions or fears of this nature will skip out on acquiring the free item and instead will make a paid purchase instead. In a way, the consumer is playing the game of “better safe than sorry.” When it comes to the realm of free ringtones online, however, such aversions and fears are not well founded as many free ringtone companies provide the proper service that they promise to deliver and do so without making the person benefiting from them incur any unnecessary costs.

Free ringtones can be acquired a number of different ways, but the most common means of acquisition is to download the ringtones from a reputable ringtone dealership. While some of the less computer literate consumers may quake in the knees (slightly) when hearing the word “download,” the reality of the matter is that downloading and installing free ringtones is not all that complicated of a procedure.

Furthermore, many free ringtones online service providers also offer wallpaper, text messaging free ringtones, and a host of other fun accessories for the cell phone. This is why it would be a wise idea to glance over a free ringtones online provider and see what else the service offers. There might be something in there that you never thought of before that really catches your eyes!

Now, some of the more cynical people in the world may view adding so many accessories to a cell phone as a bit of overkill. The reality is that nothing is further from the truth as more and more people have been “loading up” their cell phones with a number of accessory attachments that make the ringing of the cell phone turn into a fun, light hearted event as opposed to merely the sound of a phone ringing or buzzing.

When you compare the mobile phone market in Japan with the market in the USA and other regions of the world, it’s easy to see some stark differences. In some places in America, people still use analog and TDMA cellular phones. Just a while ago custom ringtones came into the market, while they have been huge in Europe for many years.

The cellular technology in Japan, however, is on a much higher level than other parts of the world. Cellphones are more common there, too. Mobile phones play an integral role in daily life in Japan, almost everyone has one. The cellphone business in Japan is booming. The latest model can be had for about ¥ 60,000, which is roughly about $300 USD. Older, workable but less desirable cellphone models can be had in Japan for dirt cheap - less than $10 USD.

The Japanese cellphone service market is largely controlled by 3 central providers. Vodafone and ‘J-Phone’, NTT and ‘DoMoCo’, and KDDI and ‘AU’. All phones in Japan operate on a unique frequency, which is a fusion of CDMA as well as other frequencies. Phones coming in from outside of Japan aren’t capatible with the frequency Japan operates on. Because of this, most phones sold inside of Japan don’t work outside of Japan, either. You’ll have to purchase a cellphone if you are traveling in Japan and want to keep in contact.

There’s a wide variety of different cell phone manufacturers that offer mobiles capitable with Japanese service providers. You’re probably familiar with Sony Ericcsoon, Kyocera, Sanyo, and even companies like Casio and Kenwood. Oddly enough, you won’t find cellphones from large cellphone manufacturing companies, like Nokia. Still, you’ll be able to find many other top quality models that will surely meet your satisfaction.

Mobile phones in Japan come with great technology, including built-in cameras, high resolution displays, GPS devices, and more. You can play mobile phone games online on your mobile phone, and for even greater enjoyment you can even purchase joystick attachments to hook up to your phone. Clearly, phones in Japan have come leaps and bounds over cellphones in other areas. Will the rest of the world ever catch up?

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I'm just asking where to find some cool pics I can put on my phone myself.

I'd recommend to be creative and take pictures on your own. Try the sunset, cloud, or even the water flowing on the toilet…(LOL). I currently have my mom's picture on cause she posed a very funny face. It cheers me up when I feel upset/stressed at work, plus it reminds me to call her everyday to say I love her. Why? cus she is the best mom!

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Dependent on the phone you choose, to generalise most camera phones do have the capability to transfer picture to PC. You may have to purchase a cable as an extra or it may come with the phone, it depends.

Depending on how you transfer you picture from phone to phone, e.g sending them as a picture message (you will be charged for this) or via bluetooth (this is free), will determine how much it cost. You do not have to pay for a text service to be able to use the camera, but if you want to send them on then you will.

Once again photo quality and format is very much dependant on the phone, most Nokia phones have reasonable quality cameras and save pictures as .jpg in 640×480. With the quality of Lithium batteries. These days I would not worry about the phone running low due to camera use, most models will last at least 48 hours before dieing! It’s a good habit to charge a phone over night anyway so no problem there.

Most camera phones that take photos in 640×480 can store about 600 pics, if you can use a memory card like i do ,with my Nokia 7710, you can potentially store around 10000, but thats a bit excessive!

Depending on how much you spend on the phone will depend on the quality; if you can I would advise you to go for a Nokia, as they are extremely user friendly.

There are also some Pre-Paid plans that offer an option through the plan to directly download pictures to your computer.

Your best bet would be to determine what phone would allow you to connect it to your computer via USB cable and has PC Suite, for example, and then use for motorola Razr that will allow you to connect it to your computer. You charge it that way and also download the contacts and pictures to you computer.

If your cell phone has bluetooth, you can also purchase a bluetooh USB Adapter that will allow you to use bluetooth to connect to your computer.

To my knowledge, the cell providers do not sell the phones with these cables. You would need to purchase the cable from the cell phone company or a third-party provider.The cell phone providers want you to use their wireless service to send pictures, because they charge you eithera monthly fees for a specific amount of kilobytcs or typically for this service.

The Jabra is a good buy. It’s either the same size or smaller than H500, cheaper, and also in black. It’s only suitable for bluetooth version or higher.

It’s the only one, but its another for you to consider. Downside to the phone is 2 hours less talk time and 2 hours less stand by time then the H500. You could determine how much of your phone you use, and make a decision if the extra amount of money is worth the talk-stand by time.

The thing is that the SIM Card on the phone is already programmed for Post Paid Plans. If you want to use the phone as a Pre-Paid you have to change the SIM Card in the phone to that of a Pre-Paid one.

Another thing is that the phone would be locked onto the verizon you get when you purches the SIM Card for that network Pre-Paid service or it won’t work.