Don’t you have a smartphone? Are you been jealous of your friends having 1 or 2 of them? Don’t worry, you can do nearly all the mobile tricks they can if you know how to use your ordinary phone. However, the day-to-day routine becomes increasingly more inconvenient for those who can’t download an app at the snap (or touch) of their fingertips.
If you think you’re behind because you don’t own a smartphone, you should know there aren’t as many smartphone users as you’d think. There are plenty of ways to utilize your phone for more than just texting and calling. Even if you have a smartphone, sometimes you run into an area without service, so it’s good to know how to get back to basics.
So, here are few things you get a costly smartphone to do for, but these thing can be done by your ordinary phones! Check out how.
You need to register your phone and then activate it for text messaging. If you don’t want your friends to see your phone number, make sure you uncheck the box on the right side of the page.
After verification of your phone, simply text yout message (which will be posted on your wall) to 92facebook (9232232665 for Indian users). The message will be posted on your wall.
You can also receive status updates, messages and wall posts from friends via SMS. I advise against this if you have a large volume of friends on Facebook. It will get old quickly.
Uploading to Twitter is similar to Facebook. Sending tweets via SMS is easy as sending a text. First you need register your mobile number to your twitter account. After linking your phone number, simply texting your 140-character update to 53000 is all you have to do. If you have a camera phone, you can send pictures by registering through other services, such as TwitPic.
You can also receive select updates from followers of your choice. On each profile, next to the follow button, there is a small button with a cellphone on it. Clicking that will automatically send their status updates to you via SMS.
Whether you need to find an address or check your Gmail, these are all capable features through Google SMS applications.
When you need an address, or perhaps restaurant suggestions in the area, simply text GOOGL (46645) with whatever information you have, for example “pizza” (without the quotes), and then the Zip code or city and state. Within minutes, you’ll receive a listing of places.
Need to be reminded of an important event? Register your phone to Google Calendar SMS and then text GVENT (48368) to request your next scheduled event, or all of your events within the next two days.
FourSquare
Don’t think that you can’t check-in usinf FourSquare just because you don’t have a GPS-enabled smartphone. First you have to sign up, then compose a new message to the phone number DOTCOM (368266), and send the word foursquare in the body of the message.
After that, you’ll receive a menu of options, such as tips nearby, your to-do list and check-ins, which are based on your last location. So, say you last checked into a multiplex, it would assume you were still in multiplex. To change cities, simply select the number 3, plus the new place.
RSS
You can go anywhere with your favorite blogs and news sites to read with SMSmyRSS.
After creating a free account, just enter RSS web content you want forwarded to your phone. You can enter keywords to flag any important stories. Like with Twitter, take incoming content sparingly. Otherwise, your inbox is going to become full very quickly. Here, TechnoTricks also has official Google SMS Channel to deliver rss feeds of our blog directly to your phone.
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