Archive for July, 2007

Top 10 Tips For Using Your Cell Phone While Drunk

Have you ever wondered what wacky or outrageous antics you can possibly get away with when using your cell phone while drunk?  The next time you are inebriated, feel free to perform what we feel are the top ten tips and tricks that you can do with your cell phone just when you are roaring drunk.

1.    Ring up a random friend on your cell phone’s address book and have a chat with him /her in a very loud voice.  Scream at him/her if you want to.  If he/she hangs up on you without saying goodbye, call your friend back and tell him/her that he/she is being rude.

2.    While talking with your friend, yell at him/her about your messy signal and rattle off every single complaint you have about your cell phone service provider.  Encourage him/her to commiserate with you if the two of you have the same provider.

3.    If your friend is still on the line, get into the longest long-winded story you could think of and regale your friend’s ears with it.  Stretch your call for as long as you can make it; the longer it is, the better.  Congratulate yourself if you manage to extend the call for more than 30 minutes.

4.    Make your phone call to your friend in a really public or crowded space.  Yell at your friend on the other line for as loud as you can and make sure that there are lots and lots of people watching you hold your drunken conversation on your phone.

5.    After a couple of drinks, play with the settings of your cell phone and choose the loudest and most annoying ringtone that you have.  Download a really noisy and irritating track if your phone is WAP-capable.  The catchier the ringtone is, the more attention you will get.

6.    Show up at the theater, at a concert or at a public performance well into your cups and deliberately forget that you have your cell phone’s ringer on.  Better yet, set it to maximum volume.  Let your ringtone compete with what the orchestra is playing on stage.

7.    Boast about how cool your phone is with your drinking buddies.  Recite every feature your phone has, in alphabetical order if you can muster it.  Make a demonstration of the wonders of your cell phone if your friends won’t believe a thing you are saying.

8.    If they still won’t believe you, slam your cell phone on top of the table.  If you feel up to it, throw it across the room to show how durable your phone is.  Better yet, dunk it in your drink.  If that still won’t convince them, nothing will.

9.    Drive around drunk with your cell phone still in hand.  Continue making random calls and sending random text messages while driving.  Just make sure there aren’t any cops in sight.

10.    Have a flight to catch?  Show up at the airport and board your plane reeking with drinks, and then conveniently leave your cell phone on.  After all, no one has really proven conclusively that cell phone signals jam the plane’s navigation system, right?  Surely the plane won’t crash because of a mere cell phone.

Just make sure that you’re really drunk when you do all these, okay?

The Worst Cell Phone Buying Guide Ever

Yeah, you got it right.  This piece you are reading right now is something we have humbly titled “The Worst Cell Phone Buying Guide Ever.”  Why, you ask?  Simply because it is not the best!  But even if this piece is certainly not the best, it will still give you the lowdown on how you could get yourself the best cell phone that will perfectly suit your needs.  Buying a cell phone, after all, can be a really confusing business, but it does not have to be complicated.

There are two major factors that you have to take a look at when buying a cellphone.  They are the service plans the network provider has to offer and the cell phone unit itself.  Let’s parse these two one at a time.

Service Plan.  A service plan can be defined as your subscription contract with a cell phone network company.  Cell phone network companies each have their own array of service plan that their customers can choose from.  Each service plan has its own features, benefits and limitations.  Also, cell phone network companies offer a certain range of cell phone units for each service plan; one plan may carry a specific phone unit that is not available with other plans.

The best way to pick a service plan that is just right for you is to determine exactly how you will be making use of your cell phone.  Will you be using your cell phone more for texting or for making phone calls?  There are service plans that offer unlimited texting or more minutes per month.

Will your phone calls involve only local calls or long distance calls?  There are national plans that offer free roaming and long distance calls, and there are regional plans that let you call as much as you want as long as these calls are made within the boundary of your service plan.  In which case, you will be charged roaming and long distance fees if ever you cross that boundary.

Do you need to stay connected to the Internet even if you are on the go?  Then you will need a data plan that will include access to wireless Internet from your cell phone.  Choose a plan that will fit your needs to a tee.

Phone Unit.  Once you’ve got what service plan you need figured out, the next step is to choose the cell phone unit that you want that is offered with the service plan that you’ve picked for yourself.  Again, you should make your choice of what cell phone to buy depending on your needs and your lifestyle.

If a basic phone that allows you to make calls and send texts is all that you need, then there is no need for you to buy a high-end cell phone unit that is chock full of features you will rarely even use.  But if you want a camera phone, go for a unit that takes pictures with great resolution.  If you want a music phone, you will want to go for a unit that has crisp and clear sounds.

You will also want to get a phone that is handy, meaning it fits comfortably in your hand.  The keypad should be easy to work with, and the display should be wide enough and with fonts large enough so as not to hurt your eyes.  Also, pick a phone that has a long battery life to dispense of the need to charge batteries often.

Top 10 Cell Phone Games

Cell phones, as we all know, are not just for making calls and sending text messages.  Now, more than ever, the cell phone is becoming a tool for entertaining ourselves.  The cell phone can now function as a camera, as a music player, and most of all, as a gaming console.

Ever wondered what are the ten most popular cell phone games ever?  Read this list and find out.

1.    Sudoku.  Sudoku, the world’s most popular numbers game continues to take the world by storm through its cell phone version.  Use your keypad to figure out which numbers go to which part of the grid to solve the puzzle.

2.    Bejeweled.  The game that first started out as a match-three Flash diversion for the computer developed by PopCap now counts as one of the most beloved cell phone games out there.  Matching as many sets of three jewels to complete a level now captivates cell phone users.

3.    Solitaire.  Lovers of Solitaire, also known as Patience, the classic single-player card game and computer time waster, can also enjoy their favorite game on their mobile phones.  Be delighted as you successfully form all four decks on your mobile; be frustrated when you don’t.

4.    Minesweeper.  You can almost imagine your computer screaming “Kablooey!” every time you fatally hit a mine in the Minesweeper minefield.  This one is another classic computer game that has made its crossover to the mobile phone for its fans to enjoy.

5.    Tetris.  Falling blocks, anyone?  The game that captured the world’s attention in the 1990s and got it playing on various platforms until now also has a version for the cell phone.  So if you want to indulge yourself with fitting falling blocks at impossible speeds, feel free to do so with your cell phone.

6.    Pac Man.  Pellets and their power-up variants, cherries, ghosts that can kill, and the yellow head that snaps them all up – we all know this as none other than Pac Man.  The game that is long considered to be the benchmark in video gaming in the 1980s can also be enjoyed by avid players through the cell phone.

7.    Snake.  Who can ever forget Snake, the computer game that gained widespread popularity after it was introduced as a game for the mobile phone?  It is a great old school classic, something that every cell phone owner should have on his cell phone unit.

8.    Text Twist.  Word addicts who love to figure out as many words as they can using a single set of six letters in a twisting game of Text Twist will have a grand time whiling away their time doing so with their cell phone.

9.    Doom RPG.  Do you love sneaking around strongholds, shooting at bad men and monsters?  Then you’d be happy to know that the well-loved first-person shooting game Doom is now available on mobile, with a storyline to boot.

10.    Tiger Woods PGA Tour.  Fans of Tiger Woods can get to emulate him and try to duplicate his winning shots across the green through the Tiger Woods PGA Tour, cell phone version.

So there you have it, the top ten cell phone games ever.  Buy them, download them, play them on your cell phone.