Mobile Phone Features

Bands (tri-band and quad-band)

• With a tri-band phone, you can access the three prime GSM networks in the Europe namely, 900MHz, 1800MHz and 1900MHz, whereas a quad band phone would let you access the networks of countries operating at 850 MHz like the USA.

• With these two features, you can connect with any of the external devices and that too avoiding all the connection hassles of wires. A mobile phone with an infrared would allow you to exchange information with only those PDAs and PCs that are integrated with an infrared port without involving any wires. However, a bluetooth also enables you to connect with accessories like headsets. The only difference in the two happens to be that infrared has a restricted range of 1m and requires both of the objects to be pointing towards each other, whereas with a bluetooth you can connect with any compatible object within a range 10m.

• Now, you can flaunt your experience of shooting beautiful pictures and video clips utilizing these features and exchanging them across with your pals via the bluetooth, infrared or MMS. Many phones also allow you to use your pictures on an Internet blog or other photo sharing services.

• Many mobile phones come with an option of expandable memory card that enables you to extend the at-present memory of the phone so that all your important music, video files and other applications can be stored easily.

• Now is the era of sophisticated graphics and animations, and this is best done via the Java games on mobile phones. All the recent mobile phones today support Java and hence, you can have a jolly time downloading your favourite games and enjoying them.

• Many countries have advanced their mobile phone networks with TV shows that can be instantly tuned into at any point of time. However, this form of technology is yet to be introduced in the UK.

• These are the basic lines of communication that a mobile phone is equipped with. A Short Message Service (SMS) enables you to send text messages, while a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) allows you to couple images and text together in a message. Predictive text involves the guess work of what you want to write with its different options that it renders. Don't forget that every network has its limited number of text messaging allowed, especially if you are on with a Pay As You Go service.

• The sound alert to indicate your incoming call is called a ringtone. The ancestral mobile phone breeds were equipped with monophonic style of ringtones that played a single sequence of sound. However, modern age handsets today play polyphonic ringtones that are a combination of different sounds playing together. Further, many phones today also support the MP3 ringtones a.k.a. True tones or Real tones.

• This is when you are out for a vacation, your mobile phone is not able to connect with your general network and uses the other one (where you presently are holidaying) instead. Roaming needs to be activated from the back end and does involve extra charges for any incoming or outgoing calls.

• SIM stands for Subscriber Identity Card, that is a small card with an in-built chip that consists of your phone number and serve as your means of identification on the provider's network. You get a SIM card free with your purchase of mobile phone that also stores your contacts and text messages.

• Smart phones can be easily connected to your PC so as to enable you to access the basic calendar and contact information simultaneously on both of these devices. These ones may also include some significant business applications like spreadsheet and word processor which are customizable with an add-on software.

• This basic added functionality in the mobile phone help you to multitask. For instance, you can attend to a call while you are working on a machine, or baby-sitting, or even driving via the speaker phone and with the feature of conference calling, you can chat on more than two calls (number restricted) simultaneously living up a hot gossip session.

• Standby time is the time span for which the phone's battery would last for the time it's not in use but still switched on, while talk-time is the span for which your phone's battery lasts even when it's in use.

• This is another exciting way of communicating with your friends over a 3G connection, using an in-built video camera that films you while you are on the call and does the same at the other end of the call so that you can see what the other person whom you are speaking with is doing.

• Using this, you can make calls with an easy voice command preset on your mobile phone without involving a keypad, making your mobile phone function much more handy and comfortable.

• This feature works just like an answering machine for your mobile phone and let the callers drop a voice message when you ain't available on phone.

• With a WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) browser, you can access the web via 3G or GPRS and view the websites optimised especially for your mobile phone, but not all sites are configured for the display.

• This one happens to be a wireless networking standard that helps you to connect with the web via communicating with all other devices enabled with Wi-Fi. Today, there are special areas called Wi-Fi hotspots, where the signals for Wi-Fi can be picked up instantly.

• This powerful feature is a pie version of the Windows OS, that is integrated upon the hand-held computer and smart phones.