subject: How To Add Much More Features To Your Mobile Phone. [print this page] Modern mobile phones are not just phones, a mobile phone is in fact a pocket computer which can do quite a lot. One can listen to the music, watch videos, surf the Web, check e-mail and do many more things. Of course, not every phone has all the features available for mobile devices. Some phones do not have WiFi, mostly mobile phones do not have GPS, some may not even have Bluetooth. There are also some specific features that are available in very few models. But there is, in fact, a possibility to add many of those features to mobile phones that do not have them. There are third party manufacturers that produce such extension accessories, which can be connected to the phone using one of the interfaces available in it. The most common way to connect such accessories is through the mini or micro SD slot.
SD (Secure Digital) is the most common standard used for the data storage, now its smaller modifications - mini or micro SD are used in mobile phones. But there are also other accessories, apart from the data storage, that can be connected to the mini (micro) SD slot of the phone. The leader on this market is SPECTEC. SPECTEC offers the following cards and extensions:
* WiFi cards - adds WiFi to PDA
* GPS cards - adds GPS Receiver to PDA
* Bluetooth cards - adds Bluetooth to PDA
* Video-Out - enables PDA to display screen over projector or external monitor
As one can see above, one can add WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and even video output to a PDA. Suppose, you are going to a business meeting. You can make a strong impression on your colleagues or your boss by making a presentation right from your phone. There are also extension cards for real time health condition monitoring, for home automation via PDA and even more. So, if you need one of those functions, just insert the respective card and here you go!
Even if your phone does not use SD standard, still you may use some accessories that connect to phone via Bluetooth. For example, SPECTEC offers a Bluetooth GPS receiver. Using Bluetooth may be preferable even if the phone supports SD cards because in that case SD slot will remain available for data storage.
Some WiFi cards can also store data. So, one can add WiFi to PDA while still having up to 2 GB of data storage in the card. The only drawback with such cards is that they have non-standard size, so that the card protrudes out of the SD slot. Because of that one cannot keep the card permanently in the phone, however one can easily insert it when WiFi connection is needed.
SPECTEC do not sell their products online, however, one can easily find many online resellers on the Web. There are also other manufacturers of such cards. A good place to search for them is at Amazon.com. So, if you have an older device that does not support all of the new features or, if you have some very special idea in mind, just search the Web for the appropriate extension card to empower your phone the way you want.
