How to add much more features to your mobile phone. - By: Leonid Sinichkin

New mobile phones use many different communication techniques. They can connect to the Internet via WiFi access points, many have a built-in GPS receiver, they can communicate with each other via Bluetooth. But not every phone has all those features. However, these and many more features can be added to a phone using a special mini (micro) SD card or an adaptor.

Mini or micro SD (SD stands for "Secure Digital") is the most common standard used for data storage 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 there is no SD slot in your phone, you can use some extensions that connect to the phone via Bluetooth. For example, SPECTEC offers a Bluetooth GPS receiver. This has also the advantage that the SD slot remains available for the storage card.

Some WiFi cards can also store data. Those cards can store up to 2 GB of data and work at the same time as a WiFi receiver. The only drawback with such cards is that they have non-standard size, so that the card protrudes out of the SD slot. That makes it impractical to keep the card inside the phone, however one can insert the card whenever one needs to use WiFi connection.

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.

About the Author

Leonid Sinichkin is an IT specialist and programmer in the field of system and process automation. He is also an expert user of smartphones an PDAs. More detailed information on the SD extension cards, including the product links, can be found at http://www.skypemobile.info (see http://www.skype-mobile.ru for the Russian version).

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