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Er, no…, no you can’t…. the IHT has done a rather humorous (funny to a geek, anyway) about cellphone myths…

Link: Cellphone myths, and little-known facts – International Herald Tribune

What if you could tap a special code into your cellphone to unlock a reserve of battery power for those desperate moments when you need to make just one more call before your phone dies?
“Total nonsense,” said Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura in London, who specializes in cellphones and cellphone equipment.
“Pure science fiction,” said Marcus Dacombe, Nokia’s head of product marketing and sales for Europe.

And that rumour about typing hash-hash-0010-hash-hash-7-hash is wrong. It doesn’t give you unlimited data…. heh….

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