Did you know: you can display your phone's screen over an external monitor or projector

<h1>Did you know: you can display your phone's screen over an external monitor or projector</h1>Author: <a title="Leonid Sinichkin" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/leonid-sinichkin/253646.htm">Leonid Sinichkin</a> 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.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 monitorAs 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. Just load all your documents into your PDA, then connect the Video-Out adaptor and you can impress your partners making a presentation 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. 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 <A href="http://amazon.com/">Amazon.com</A>. 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. Visit <A href="http://www.skypemobile.info/"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.skypemobile.info">http://www.skypemobile.info</a></A> to learn more what you can do with your phone and how to make cheap long-distance calls from mobile phone. (Russian readers can visit <A href="http://www.skype-mobile.ru/"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.skype-mobile.ru">http://www.skype-mobile.ru</a></A>).
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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.

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. Just load all your documents into your PDA, then connect the Video-Out adaptor and you can impress your partners making a presentation 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. 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.

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. Visit http://www.skypemobile.info to learn more what you can do with your phone and how to make cheap long-distance calls from mobile phone. (Russian readers can visit http://www.skype-mobile.ru).

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