Cell phone signal extender
Do you know what can be just as frustrating as your cell phone’s battery dying at the most important moment (a solution for this can be found here)? I’ll tell you - suddenly loosing the connectivity with the carriers’ towers.
Let me start by telling a short story. It’s probably the most recent one that is significant (read: frustrating) enough to remember.
This was on June 29 (yes, this summer’s June 29). It was my friend’s birthday. All I wanted was to send him an e-mail with my wishes. Seems easy enough, right? Well, unfortunately, due to freak thunderstorms occurring every few days since the end of May, my connection was down (it was like that for the bigger part of June). And a bigger part of Internet cafes were suffering the same problem + a horde a students on vacation. So, I chose something that seemed most logical - using my cellphone.
It just so happens that I had to spend in a place with a poor connectivity, but still, somehow I managed to open a java application for Gmail and somehow typed a very creative letter (note to self - that application doesn’t have line breaks and messes up your formatting). And that wasn’t easy either - usually I prefer to make a call for anything that’s over 5 words.
And in the end, the plan failed, because I lost all connectivity, and I was only able to do that 4 days later. This sucks.
If you have these situations oftenly, you could certainly use the cellphone signal extender. Basically, it just strenghtens the signal from the towers (meaning it’s useless if there’s absolutely no signal). There are three models - 1st one works with carriers in 824 - 894 MHz diapason, 2nd works for 1850-1990 MHz diapason and the third can operate in both.
The prices are $249.99 for the single band models and $359.99 for the dual-band one. Found at thinkgeek.