Cell Phone Basics

Helen Seaton, Publicity Director

The Computer Booters will meet on Wednesday, March 9, at 1:30 p.m. This will be a hybrid meeting. The face-to-face session will be in the Cottonwood Ceramics Room, but the program will also be available on Zoom. The speaker will be Francis Chao, a member of the Tucson Computer Society. His topic will be Cell Phone Basics.

Cell Phone Basics: Your iPhone or Android mobile phone is actually six separate radio transmitter-receivers in a very compact device. If you get a working understanding of the details for these six transmitter-receivers, you can make better use of your mobile phone and save money:

Six transmitter-receivers in an iPhone or Android cell phone: Cellular transceiver, Wi-Fi transceiver, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver = GPS, etc., Bluetooth transceiver, Near-Field Communication (NFC), and FM radio receiver.

Not having a data plan so that Wi-Fi is the cell phone’s only Internet connection.

Having a data plan but using mainly Wi-Fi for the cell phone’s Internet access.

Various apps use different combinations of the six transmitter-receivers. Use the “MyGPSCoordinates” and/or “GPS Status” apps to get your gps to get your latitude/longitude location from the GNSS receiver.

The Computer Booters Club has many things to offer members, such as free technical assistance, information about new programs, how to use the programs, Microsoft classes, and access to talks and conferences on a variety of topics from APCUG (Association of Personal Computer User Groups). The APCUG classes are free and can be attended using your computer, tablet, or phone with the Zoom.us app. These classes are an exciting benefit for club members. More information and help are available in the newsletter and on our website, computerbooters.org. For more information, contact [email protected] or 480-895-2196.