Sorry Mom. You can keep the Fanta though.
For the first time in history, I have received an e-mail I thought worthy of forwarding. My mother sent me this e-mail, so she gets the congratulatory vintage bottle of Fanta Orange.However, since I have a blog, I shall repost the four exceptionally helpful/interesting things you can do with your cell phone here. I'm sure hundreds of my readers have received this e-mail already themselves (which is why I never personally send them out), but this one is particularly good.
1. The emergency number worldwide for cell phones is 112. If you find yourself out of 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.Good information... all of it!
2. Unlock your car with your mobile phone. If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their phone from your mobile phone. Hold your mobile phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the 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).
3. Mobile phone hidden battery power. Imagine your phone's battery is very low, and you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instruments come with a reserve battery. To activate it, press the keys *3370# Your phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your phone next time.
4. Disabling a stolen mobile phone. To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: *#06# 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 gets stolen, you can phone 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.
(By the way, to everybody who sends me e-mails with jokes, links, notables, or just miscellany that you think I might find entertaining... I enjoy them very much, and keep them and refer back to those e-mails when I need to smile. Keep sending them. The only reason I don't forward entertaining e-mails is the same reason I never tell jokes at parties: It's simply not my thing.)
UPDATE:
I initially doubted this e-mail, because I'm a natural skeptic. So I went to snopes.com, where all fakery is debunked, and found this entry regarding the *#06# thing for helping your phone company disable your stolen phone. So far so good.
I then did a google search for *3370# and saw a couple of references to Nokia batteries. (Also, I remember hearing something similar to this before.) Thought that was enough confirmation.
At that point I stopped fact checking. Oops.
My appreciation goes out to an anonymous commenter who provided the link. Not only does this mark the first time I've "forwarded an e-mail", but it also marks the first time I've been duped into believing an urban legend. (And if you think about it for a minute... unlock a car door? Does your keychain make a noise when you press on it? If you can't hear it, what makes you think your phone can?)
Oh well... I'm having the eggs on my face for lunch along with some bacon.
3 comments:
For your very first email you have chosen to forward on I think you may have chosen a dud!
Have a look here: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cell%20phones.htm
I know that it is a fact that cell phones can open car doors.
JWW
According to this link at Snopes.com, a lot of people are tricked into thinking that such a thing is indeed a possibility, because they try it while parked in their own driveway... or some other place that is actually within the range of the "keyless remote" being pushed "through the other phone."
According to Snopes, such key rings can have a range of more than 300 feet. If you tested this theory with the key chain closer than 300 feet to your car, you now know why it worked.
If you accomplished this task over a distance of several miles, then write back and let me know.
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