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GE's upcoming Cell Fusion series of phones uses Bluetooth technology to pair your cellphone to your home phone so that you don't spend minutes looking for you tiny clamshell or slider while its ringing. GE has dubbed the first phone in the Cell Fusion series, the "No Jack" phone, and is geared toward "cord cutters," or those who no longer have a landline. The No Jack phone features a Bluetooth receiver that can pair with up to two cell phones so that you can make and receive calls on a standard sized cordless phone. The No Jack phone will be released in April 2008 in two models, 28127FE1, which just has one handset and costs $80, and the 28127FE2, which ships with a pair of handsets for $100. more
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In addition to the broad adoption of Bluetooth in mobile phones, many notebook computers ... feature Bluetooth technology. For those desktop and notebook computers that do not have Bluetooth built-in, external USB Bluetooth adapters used in conjunction with BLINK software provide a convenient way to connect a PC to a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. Many leading dongle manufacturers are including the new BLINK software with their products and feature the BLINK logo on their packaging to alert consumers to the software's ease of use benefits.
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The FCC reconsidered its position in 1968, stating "if the technology to build a better mobile service works, we will increase the frequencies allocation, freeing the airwaves for more mobile phones." AT&T and Bell Labs proposed a cellular system to the FCC of many small, low-powered, broadcast towers, each covering a 'cell' a few miles in radius and collectively covering a larger area. Each tower would use only a few of the total frequencies allocated to the system. As the phones traveled across the area, calls would be passed from tower to tower.
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Pre-paid cell phones sound like a good way to stay contract-free in the harsh world of cell phone use, but can a pre-paid account be just as frustrating as a regular phone? Apparently. Reader Sarah writes to share the email she sent to Virgin Mobile. All Sarah wants to do is cancel her account so she can give her phone to someone else. That's it. Easy right?:
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Cell phones work by using radio frequency bands to send the waves. The frequency is measured in Hz. Low frequencies offer good connection. Higher frequencies can sent the signal further. For GSM, are usually used four main frequencies around the world: 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz. Europe uses 900 and 1800 MHz and North America uses 850 and 1900 MHz.
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Cellphones' genocide of pay phones just leveled up: AT&T will be totally out of the pay phone business by the end of next year. It's a hard blow to a long languishing subset of communication hardware that was eulogized way back in '03 by schmucky Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth. There are about a million pay phones left, down from a peak 2.6 million in 1998. more
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