In the confusing world of cell phones and reception, it's sometimes difficult to find unbiased information.
We'll guide you through each step, from educating you about phones and carriers, to providing you tools we've developed, so that in the end you can make your own choice based on the facts that are on the table.
We've written this guide assuming no prior consumer knowledge. But if we discuss something you already know, skip ahead or around. Overall the sections we will be going through are:
Cell Phone Number Portability
Taking Your Number With You
On November 24, 2003 the FCC authorized the option to allow consumers to keep their phone numbers when switching carriers. However it isn't as simple as it seems. There are a lot of requirements and precautionary steps that need to be taken to make sure the transfer goes smoothly.
1. Existing Service Agreements Still Apply
Make sure you want to switch. In some cases, if your current contract isn't over, early termination fees may apply which could be costly. Added to the cost of new phones, activation charges with the new carrier, and other miscellaneous charges, and the extra costs could offset any benefits.
2. Keep a Copy of Existing Carrier's Phone Bill
It will save you a lot of headaches. Carriers rely on the billing system to port your number. So in order to seamlessly transfer your phone number over, the exact billing information must be used. If you live on 123 Main Street, it's 123 Main Street, not 123 Main or 123 Main St... exact.
3. Contact New Carrier - Don't Cancel Existing Plan
Once you've set your mind on it, it's time to contact your new carrier. They will handle the number change. However, to make this process as painless as possible, make sure you do not terminate service with your existing provider. If you cancel your existing plan without notifying your new carrier, the old number may be recycled and reassigned.
4. Backup, Backup, Backup
When switching carriers you will probably switch phones. Not all phones are compatible with different services, so make sure you have a way of saving your contact information. Your thumbs will thank you
5. Sit Back and Wait
That's it. The changeover shouldn't take more than a few hours. A small $3 - $5 fee may be added to your bill for the porting. But by taking these precautionary steps you'll be able to save a lot of headaches.
From: www.soundasia.com
Website:http://www.soundasia.com
2008年12月30日星期二
Cell Phone Buying Guides From SoundAsia.com (2)
In the confusing world of cell phones and reception, it's sometimes difficult to find unbiased information.
We'll guide you through each step, from educating you about phones and carriers, to providing you tools we've developed, so that in the end you can make your own choice based on the facts that are on the table.
We've written this guide assuming no prior consumer knowledge. But if we discuss something you already know, skip ahead or around. Overall the sections we will be going through are:
Finding Cell Phone Service
1.What's Really Important?
With all the carriers attempting to entice potential consumers with "Roll-Over Minutes," "Fair and Flexible", etc., it is tempting to choose a carrier based on incentives.
However, reception reliability should be considered first and foremost to save headaches later on. Even at a few dollars more a month, being able to send and receive calls in the neighborhood is justified.
2.The Reception Problem
An ongoing problem with finding a good carrier is that reception is so spotty. We've all experience great reception in the neighbors yard, but it suddenly drops to nothing when you try to talk in the kitchen. So what's one to do to find the carrier with the best reception?
Finding a good phone depends on finding a great carrier. Aside from the time consuming effort of signing up with a carrier, trying it out, canceling if its bad, and trying with another carrier until the best one is found, word of mouth was the only other way. There was nothing consumers could do... until now.
3.Find The Best Plan To Suit Your Needs
After narrowing it down to one or a few providers, now is the time to consider incentives and rates. Nowadays, things are much more simplified. With the biggest concern usually lies in choosing National or Regional plans. But choices must be made to your specific needs.
Choosing The Right Cell Phone
Narrowing Down The List
After deciding a provider and plan, finding the best phone to fit your lifestyle is next. While all consumers are unique, it is safe to say that most likely you'll fall into one of three categories: those who don't know where to begin, those who know what they want in their phone, and those that already have in mind a few models they are considering.
For all of these categories we have developed tools to help narrow down the broad list of available phone. While using these tools, we try to supply you with facts and information and allow you to make your own decisions. So that in the end, you come up with a phone that's fits your needs.
From: www.soundasia.com
Website:http://www.soundasia.com
We'll guide you through each step, from educating you about phones and carriers, to providing you tools we've developed, so that in the end you can make your own choice based on the facts that are on the table.
We've written this guide assuming no prior consumer knowledge. But if we discuss something you already know, skip ahead or around. Overall the sections we will be going through are:
Finding Cell Phone Service
1.What's Really Important?
With all the carriers attempting to entice potential consumers with "Roll-Over Minutes," "Fair and Flexible", etc., it is tempting to choose a carrier based on incentives.
However, reception reliability should be considered first and foremost to save headaches later on. Even at a few dollars more a month, being able to send and receive calls in the neighborhood is justified.
2.The Reception Problem
An ongoing problem with finding a good carrier is that reception is so spotty. We've all experience great reception in the neighbors yard, but it suddenly drops to nothing when you try to talk in the kitchen. So what's one to do to find the carrier with the best reception?
Finding a good phone depends on finding a great carrier. Aside from the time consuming effort of signing up with a carrier, trying it out, canceling if its bad, and trying with another carrier until the best one is found, word of mouth was the only other way. There was nothing consumers could do... until now.
3.Find The Best Plan To Suit Your Needs
After narrowing it down to one or a few providers, now is the time to consider incentives and rates. Nowadays, things are much more simplified. With the biggest concern usually lies in choosing National or Regional plans. But choices must be made to your specific needs.
Choosing The Right Cell Phone
Narrowing Down The List
After deciding a provider and plan, finding the best phone to fit your lifestyle is next. While all consumers are unique, it is safe to say that most likely you'll fall into one of three categories: those who don't know where to begin, those who know what they want in their phone, and those that already have in mind a few models they are considering.
For all of these categories we have developed tools to help narrow down the broad list of available phone. While using these tools, we try to supply you with facts and information and allow you to make your own decisions. So that in the end, you come up with a phone that's fits your needs.
From: www.soundasia.com
Website:http://www.soundasia.com
2008年12月24日星期三
Cell Phone Buying Guides From SoundAsia.com (1)
Cell Phone Buying Guides From SoundAsia.com (1)
In the confusing world of cell phones and reception, it's sometimes difficult to find unbiased information.
We'll guide you through each step, from educating you about phones and carriers, to providing you tools we've developed, so that in the end you can make your own choice based on the facts that are on the table.
We've written this guide assuming no prior consumer knowledge. But if we discuss something you already know, skip ahead or around. Overall the sections we will be going through are:
Explaining Cell Phone Reception
1.What Did You Say?
Ever wonder why you don't get reception? For a simple answer, typically user load and tower placement are the reasons reception quality diminishes. Other factors may be terrain, modulation technology, weather, or the phone itself. However, call quality depends more upon network than anything else.
To clear up the mystery, some basic information on how cell phones work is useful.
2.How Cell Phones Work
Cell phones are essentially "radios." They communicate to the world by transmitting and receiving voice through cell towers setup throughout the area. And a carrier's coverage is a network of cell sites, each with a tower and base station controller for a range of about 10 square miles.
From a carrier's standpoint, great coverage comes at various technological expenses and certain restrictions that are out of their control. For instance, each provider is limited by the FCC to a number of frequencies it can use in any given city.
Given a limited number of frequencies available in the spectrum, in order to sustain the capacity needed for urban coverage, frequency reuse is required.
To put it into an extreme example, if there was only one tower covering all of New York City, only a limited amount of simultaneous users could use that tower at once due to FCC regulations, say 100 frequency slots. Thus, 100 users at once could use it.
Conversely, if each house had its own tower, 100 users would be able to talk on their cell phones simultaneously in each house. Since each tower now only has a few feet to cover, power consumption is greatly lowered. Once a guest walks to a neighbor's apartment, the current tower would hand off the user to the next tower, freeing up a spot of another person.
3.Where's the Reception?
Coverage gaps arise when there is minimal or no overlap between cell sites. Ideally, hexagonal cell sites in a grid would cover 100% of the city. However, cell sites are circular in range. Thus small gaps occur when cell sites are next to each other. When user load increases, more towers need to be built to sustain the volume.
Also as mentioned earlier, by using a network of cell sites, transmission power can be lowered. To maintain efficiency, cells ideally provide reception up to the edge of the next cell site. However, signal strength fades the farther a user strays from the tower. And if the user strays too far from the fringe of two adjacent sites, coverage can get dropped.
4.Other Reasons for Poor Reception
If coverage is great outdoors but vanishes once inside, a problem could be the transmission power. Since more users requires more towers to be placed, it requires less power to cover a smaller area. The weaker signals will not be able to penetrate buildings deeper.
Additionally, at the expense of power consumption, cell phones use low-power transmitters. Base station transmits at low power to keep within the cell range (mentioned above). So to provide long lasting phones, manufacturers end up trading off power for transmission and reception strength. Together these are all possible reasons for bad reception.
From: http://www.soundasia.com/
Website:http://www.soundasia.com
In the confusing world of cell phones and reception, it's sometimes difficult to find unbiased information.
We'll guide you through each step, from educating you about phones and carriers, to providing you tools we've developed, so that in the end you can make your own choice based on the facts that are on the table.
We've written this guide assuming no prior consumer knowledge. But if we discuss something you already know, skip ahead or around. Overall the sections we will be going through are:
Explaining Cell Phone Reception
1.What Did You Say?
Ever wonder why you don't get reception? For a simple answer, typically user load and tower placement are the reasons reception quality diminishes. Other factors may be terrain, modulation technology, weather, or the phone itself. However, call quality depends more upon network than anything else.
To clear up the mystery, some basic information on how cell phones work is useful.
2.How Cell Phones Work
Cell phones are essentially "radios." They communicate to the world by transmitting and receiving voice through cell towers setup throughout the area. And a carrier's coverage is a network of cell sites, each with a tower and base station controller for a range of about 10 square miles.
From a carrier's standpoint, great coverage comes at various technological expenses and certain restrictions that are out of their control. For instance, each provider is limited by the FCC to a number of frequencies it can use in any given city.
Given a limited number of frequencies available in the spectrum, in order to sustain the capacity needed for urban coverage, frequency reuse is required.
To put it into an extreme example, if there was only one tower covering all of New York City, only a limited amount of simultaneous users could use that tower at once due to FCC regulations, say 100 frequency slots. Thus, 100 users at once could use it.
Conversely, if each house had its own tower, 100 users would be able to talk on their cell phones simultaneously in each house. Since each tower now only has a few feet to cover, power consumption is greatly lowered. Once a guest walks to a neighbor's apartment, the current tower would hand off the user to the next tower, freeing up a spot of another person.
3.Where's the Reception?
Coverage gaps arise when there is minimal or no overlap between cell sites. Ideally, hexagonal cell sites in a grid would cover 100% of the city. However, cell sites are circular in range. Thus small gaps occur when cell sites are next to each other. When user load increases, more towers need to be built to sustain the volume.
Also as mentioned earlier, by using a network of cell sites, transmission power can be lowered. To maintain efficiency, cells ideally provide reception up to the edge of the next cell site. However, signal strength fades the farther a user strays from the tower. And if the user strays too far from the fringe of two adjacent sites, coverage can get dropped.
4.Other Reasons for Poor Reception
If coverage is great outdoors but vanishes once inside, a problem could be the transmission power. Since more users requires more towers to be placed, it requires less power to cover a smaller area. The weaker signals will not be able to penetrate buildings deeper.
Additionally, at the expense of power consumption, cell phones use low-power transmitters. Base station transmits at low power to keep within the cell range (mentioned above). So to provide long lasting phones, manufacturers end up trading off power for transmission and reception strength. Together these are all possible reasons for bad reception.
From: http://www.soundasia.com/
Website:http://www.soundasia.com
2008年12月11日星期四
CECT N96 Dual SIM One Standby TV Phone
CECT N96 Dual SIM One Standby TV Phone
Product ID：P086177827
Product Brand：CECT
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CECT N95 slide PDA mobile Phone, dual SIM card, MP3/MP4 player
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CECT N95 style, has not only dual sim working at the same time function, but also dual sliding as N95. What's more, its flash point is smaller than N95.
2008年12月10日星期三
CECT 8800 Cell Phone with Camera, MP3/MP4 Player, Bluetooth
CECT 8800 Cell Phone with Camera, MP3/MP4 Player, Bluetooth
Product ID：P0810852480
Product Brand：CECT
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Item Weight：0.65Kg
New, 1 year warranty!
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CECT 8800 is triband GSM900/1800 DCS1900. 12 types languages. Beauty is born,in the magic moment when aesthetics and functionality meet in equilibrium. We believe that moment is now. Bring together a unique blend of emotion and technology, the result is a communication masterpiece that embodies the very essence of personal mobility.
CECT N96 TV Dual Sim Triban TV Phone
CECT N96 TV Dual Sim Triban TV Phone
CECT N96 TV Dual Sim Triban TV Phone
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Item Weight：0.65Kg
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CECT N96 TV has unqiue Analogue TV functions and two GSM SIM cards working together and it supports 8GB external memory card. CECT N96 TV phone is specially suitable for south amercia market and spain italy market because of its triband design, supporting GSM900/1800/1900MHZ.
W910 Dual Sim Phone Review
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