Mobile Phone Features Guide

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In part 4 of our mobile phone guide to ensure the best and suitable most mobile phone deal for our customers, we have a look at some of the extra functions and features available in the market that could help the customers arrive at the right new mobile phone for him/her. In part 5 we continue our goal to watch out for the features available.

Extra phone features:

In part 4 we studied battery life, Bluetooth, call screening, cameras with different capacities and various colour screens, now here are some extra benefits to be considered:

Games - Most of the contemporary handsets come equipped with a standard palate of basic games. Bit a JAVA-enabled phone will give the users a wider gaming options
GPRS - It enables 2G phones to get connected to the internet
Hands-free - Enables the phone users to answer the call without lifting the handset. It is especially useful when the user is driving
MMS - Multimedia messaging is utilised by the camera phones to send pictures and videos
Ringtones - Musical alerts can be downloaded to the phone and connected to specific callers
Roaming - This facility allows the subscriber to use his/her phone even while abroad on other networks
SIM-free - SIM is the shorter form of Subscriber Identity Module. It contains the phone user's identity to have an access to the network and is also used for storing information. While the SIM-free mobile phones do not provide this information to the network
Text messaging - Generally standard for of the facility enables the users to forward brief text-based messages to others
Vibrating alert - The vibrations in contact with the body-or some other surface--let you know if your phone is ringing or not; it is particularly helpful to the deaf and dumb
Voicemail - This facility allows the caller to record a message if the person on the otherv end does not answer the call
WAP - It stands for Wireless Application Protocol. It enables the mobile phones to get connected to internet-like services.

3G is the newest technology for the multimedia content equipping the users for online gaming, TV, video messages and much more on their mobile phone. I-mode provides information to the mobile phones and facilitates exchanging of e-mails from different handsets on the PDC-P network.

In part 6 we'll have a look at the costs and expenses arriving with a mobile phone deal and what the users can do to tackle them.

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