Archive for September, 2007
Save your cell phone battery while out in the sticks
Your cell phone tries to keep you constantly connected to the grid. When you are off the grid your cell phone will try every few minutes to find a tower. This hunting for towers is a large drain on battery life.
If you know you’ll be away from cell towers for a few hours, pop your battery until you reach civilization again. Otherwise it might be dead when you get there.
If You’re Out of Cellphone Service for a Long Time, Remove Your Battery – Consumerist
If you have a phone you can’t remove the battery from it might keep calling home and stick you with a $4800 bill from ATT
Camera Phone book
This is one of those rare items that has to be filed under bad things. National Geographic put out a camera phone book last month. With great hopes and anticipation I ordered up a copy from Amazon.
What the book really is, is a digital camera how to book, not a cell phone camera book. The tips and techniques are all those you find in standard digital camera books. The list of equipment they recommend misses the whole point of a cell phone camera – ie that it is very portable and you don’t have to spend time setting up shots.
Save your money and skip this book.
