How do you use YOUR cellphone?
August 26, 2008
I’ll admit it. I’m cellphone challenged. I can send and receive calls. I can even store numbers in my contacts. I don’t send text messages (although if I did, I’d have to refer to www.transl8it.com) and my phone doesn’t even have a camera. Kim, on the other hand, is a serial cellphone user. She makes calls. She receives calls. She Tweets via cellphone. She surfs via cellphone. She fully utilizes all the features on her phone….or does she?
This coming Thursday, August 28 (which is also my sweetie’s birthday), we’re having a guest on with us who will help all us cellphone challenged folks, and even serial cellphone users like Kim, to get the most out of our cellphones, no matter what kind they are. His name is Mark Asnes and he’s the COO of Wireless Zone. Founded in 1988 in Weathersfield, CT by Russ Weldon as “The Car Phone Store” and renamed “Wireless Zone” in 1999, this franchise based store now sells all the latest cellular/wireless phones, GPS navigation, wireless accessories, Verizon FIOS High Speed Fiber Optic Network, Wireless Data Devices, pre-paid cellular services and DIGO, which is Wireless Zone’s exclusive VOIP network.
If you’re challenged like me and would like to find out what you’ve been missing with your cellphone, or if you’re cellphone saavy like Kim and want to make sure you’re not missing anything ELSE, join us Thursday at 2:30 CST 3:30 EST on Blog Talk Radio!
Posted in Interviews, Tech Tips, Wireless
content rss
August 26th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
ok, u asked for it! Here’s a scenario from real life:
- Landed in Phoenix airport ready to drive with my husband to Sedona for 25th wedding anniversary. We noticed the rental car had a headphone jack on the front and realized we could listen to podcasts for the 2 hour drive. Hooray! oh wait, we don’t have a headphone to headphone cable with us.
- I jumped on the iPhone as we start to drive, opened Google maps, hit the locate me button (on Edge), hit search, typed in Radio Shack. Rewarded with raining down red pins showing all of those nearby.
- Clicked on one that looked like it was on our way, and the phone number came up. - Clicked the number and the iPhone dialed it for me. Got hold of the sales guy who verified they had the cable - yes!
- Clicked the back button, into maps and then hit the directions button in maps, and it defaulted to “from here to there” where there was the address of the Radio Shack I had chosen
- Up came turn by turn directions, with my location updating as I drove
- Got close, turned out it was a mall, called the guy again and he flew us in, handed us the cable when we walked in.
- Listened to podcasts all the way there and back!
And that’s how I use my cell phone!
Allison Sheridan
NosillaCast at http://podfeet.com
A Technology Geek Podcast with an EVER so Slight Macintosh Bias
August 26th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I love my cell phone… Verizon, XV6700 (Old, I know) smartphone.
I load videos from DVDs onto micro SD cards and watch them on trips, i load MP3s on it and podcasts, I text, I hit up on wifi spots and surf the net, it has bluetooth so i bought a small bluetooth gps reciever (it is about as long as your pinky and as thick as 4 credit cards, loaded microsoft streets and trips and now i have a gps…
oh, wait, oh, thats right, the iPhone just copied everything i have been doing for 2 years before it ever came out…