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How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes
adamengst writes "We seldom think about how our mobile phones actually work, but in this TidBITS article, Rich Mogull pulls back the covers and peels away the jargon to explain why text messages work when voice calls are dropped, why your battery lasts longer in some places than in others, why you're not allowed to use phones on airplanes, why you can be notified of a voicemail message when your phone never rang, and more."
It's the magic smoke inside the cell phones that do it, it's ionized such that it can it maintains polarity with the magic cell towers. That's why if you break one, letting the magic smoke out, it won't work anymore.
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New tag system apparently. Mouse over the various tags and you'll see there are three tag types--Top, System, and Type. I'm presuming that since there are more stories submitted than anything, the Story tag will be on almost every entry.
damn you slashdot. look what you're doing to these poor web pages. they may never be able to recover from this kind of shock. and i really wanted to know how cell phones work! (although i probably wouldn't have if i hadn't read it on here first)
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as they work in front of the scenes I should imagine.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.