Ambitious topic I know, but my aim is to offer the average cell phone user tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your cell phoneÂ… especially in an emergency. These are secrets guarded and coveted by every urban warrior who wages battle against having too little time.

My cell phone provider is Verizon, in the past itÂ’s been Sprint, and let me tell you what a world of difference there is between these 2 carriers. With Verizon there has never been a dropped call, unless IÂ’m in a spotty coverage area FOR ALL providers. True their service is expensive, but I believe itÂ’s worth it.

Now, if youÂ’re like me and sometimes youÂ’re traveling and you need the tel. number for a store, or direction on how to get there, or you have your laptop and need to know where the nearest local WIFI Hotspot is, [yes folks, you're very own Hotspot finder (I can almost hear Harvey thinking of a quip on that one)], or maybe youÂ’re not sure what a Local WIFI Hotspot is and want to learnÂ… well then, look no further than Yahoo Mobile Tools.

In all fairness, Google has itÂ’s own limited set of tools that are worth looking into, however, they are not as extensive nor as feature rich as YahooÂ’s Tool set for Mobile users.

One neat feature which Google has developed is the Google Mobile Gateway. In essense it's a protal-like gateway that enables you to convert any page on the internet (provided the page is not too graphic heavy) for viewing on your cell or PDA. Thanks go to Eric of Grumbles for sharing this with me!!! Now I can visit all my blog family from wherever I happen to be and don't have to wait to have time to log on to my home pc to visit them all.

If you have a web-enable phone, all you do is bookmark the google portal address and then copy and paste the url of the site you want to see at the end. Here's an example with my address tagged on:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://lettersfeomnyc.mu.nu/

Tr it out on your phone and let me know if it works for you.

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