You can use your old Smartphone you are about to throw into a PC.
Steps:
First, however, you need to turn off cellular data. Otherwise, your phone will drain your battery trying to find a signal. On an iPhone, go to Settings>>Cellular. For an iPad, it’s Settings>>Cellular Data. Turn Cellular Data off.
In Android, swipe down from the top of the screen and look for the Mobile Data icon. You also might have a widget on your home screen.
Otherwise, go to Settings and under Wireless and Network, tap More Settings>>Mobile networks and uncheck Mobile data. The steps could vary by manufacturer, so check your manual if this doesn’t work for you.
On a Windows Phone, go to the App list and go to Settings>>Cellular. Turn Data connection to Off. Make sure “For limited Wi-Fi connectivity” is set to “Don’t use cellular data.”
Now it’s time to turn it into something else. The easiest option is a portable media player…
You can use that as a GPS,Alarm Clock,Gaming Unit,Kitchen Recipe Holder and WiFi Phone.
Warning” If you, your kids or grand kids take pics from your phone—WATCH THIS!
This is truly alarming – please take the time to watch. At the end they’ll tell you how to set your phone so you don’t run this risk!
PLEASE PASS THIS INFO TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO TAKES PICTURES WITH THEIR CELL OR SMART PHONE AND POSTS THEM ONLINE.
I want everyone of you to watch this and then be sure to share with all your family and friends.
It’s REALLY important info, about what your posting things on your cell phones can do TO YOU!!!
Too much technology out there these days so beware………..
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS VIDEO, AND TAKE THE RECOMMENDED PRECAUTIONS.
If you have children or grandchildren you NEED to watch this. I had no idea this could happen from taking pictures on the blackberry or cell phone. It’s scary.
This is where they got hooked: what the user actually did by entering his/her number was to subscribe to a ‘premium messaging service.’ In short, they would pay to receive a series of advertisements with costs ranging from $2 to $10 a message. Of course, a percentage of the money collected went to the conman behind ‘WhatsAppSpy’ for ‘referring’ the users to the ‘service.’
Smartphones come with a lot of Applications.
It has become trendy to buy a Smartphone with Applications galore, whether one uses it or not, it has become a Status(?) symbol
Knowing this, a scamster sent in advertising SMS to about 11,000 people and cashed in $50,000 in just two months!
Story:
Scam artist ‘robbed’ more than 11,000 users by sending them over eight million advertising messages – which they paid to receive.
A fictitious smartphone application dubbed ‘WhatsAppSpy’ was too tempting to resist for thousands of people who got stung in one of the latest Internet scams. Thanks to their gullibility, a 23year-old in Murcia, Spain pocketed more than $53,000 in only two months.
According to Spanish language news service EFE, the bait was a fictitious application that purportedly let users view messages that others sent via WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging services around. Once the bait was prepared, the fraudster went fishing for fools on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. He managed to reel in over 11,000 subscribers who wanted to spy on the private messages of friends, co-workers, family, lovers, etc. – all ‘in real time, without any problems’ and ‘absolutely free!’
To begin using the supposed spy app, the suckers who swallowed the bait were told to visit the ‘WhatsAppSpy’ webpage to sign-up. Once they did that, they were redirected to another site which asked for their phone number in order to send them a code to download the application directly onto their device. This is where they got hooked: what the user actually did by entering his/her number was to subscribe to a ‘premium messaging service.’ In short, they would pay to receive a series of advertisements with costs ranging from $2 to $10 a message. Of course, a percentage of the money collected went to the conman behind ‘WhatsAppSpy’ for ‘referring’ the users to the ‘service.’
This was probably an honest mistake—Amazon is a stand-up company. We’ve reached out for comment, but, you know, it’s Christmas Day, so we’re not holding our breath. Ben has already contacted Amazon, and they said to return the thing.
A taxi Service in Mumbai has come out with Aandroid Application to pick up, drop the Customers.
The normal process of calling the Help Line, waiting toget through is eliminated in this service.
The Cab Drivers are provided with Smartphone and all the customer has to do is to click the web,Telebooking platform and they are connected with the cab driver who happens to be nearest gets connected and you get the details like the time needed to reach you and the journey time to your destination.
The organisation Olacabs is planning to extend this service to smaller towns as well shortly.
The concept of vehicle pooling was prevalent in metro cities. I launched the website in Ahmedabad in June last year with aim of reducing people’s fuel costs and promoting environmental cause. Also, it helps people in networking and making new friends. Once the user uploads his route and requirements, we provide him with matching profiles. He can contact them directly and discuss further details,” said Suresh Purohit, an entrepreneur who started http://www.olivetrips.com that offers car pooling service for free.
About 275 Gujaratis are availing benefits of vehicle sharing through his site and the number is increasing every month.
Purohit, an MBA graduate said that trend of vehicle pooling will pick up faster when people know about such website and understand benefits of sharing system.
City-based entrepreneur Ruchira Choudhuri Saikia has gone a step ahead and introduced the concept of socializing through vehicle pooling website.
“We are introducing chat, video and status update facilities on our website (www.greenyatri.com) that will be launched within a month. Those logging onto the website can find partners for vehicle pooling, chat with other users and work out the sharing plans. Also, they can upload videos or pictures related to traffic issues in the city. The experience will be similar to some popular networking sites,” Ruchira told TOI.
Their focus is to reduce environment pollution and congestion on roads.”
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss
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