How to find SAR value of Mobile

How to know the SAR of a mobile? It's very easy. Just go to your phone dial pad and dial *#07# and the phone will display the SAR value. If this does not works, then you might want to check with the documentation of your mobile.

What is SAR? SAR stands for Specific absorption rate. It reflects the radiation from a phone. When I dial the above number on my Micromax phone, I get the following.

• 0.424 W/Kg @ 1g(Head)
• 0.453 W/Kg @ 1g(Body)

The value means the amount of energy absorbed by 1 g tissue. The SAR value mentioned is usually the highest SAR value. In case of good reception, mobiles reduce their power and hence results in low SAR value,

Cell phone Battery Discharges Too Fast?

Most of us struggle with cell phones discharging too fast. And we download many battery saving applications to make the cell phone batteries to last longer. However taking care of some of the small things can help your battery to last much much longer for a given charge.There are many many things you can do to micro manage your battery but I will just go over the important one's to save the cell phone battery from discharging faster.

• Display brightness: Put the display brightness to lowest level that is required. A bright display takes a lot of battery horsepower. You can usually tweak the display brightness from the settings menu of your phone. Another things you can do is to set the time outs to let the screen

Buying a Smartphone - Part 2

Operating System

The other important consideration about buying smart phone is about the operating system. In simple terms if you want to buy Apple, Android, Windows or other operating system. Here the world is quite divided fanatically about their choices. I would not try to defend on or other. I have my choices but that's for me. However to choose an OS couple of things you might want to look around

• I think the most important criteria is how tech savvy you are in terms of understanding the feature and intricacies of a particular operating system, then I would let you go with your choice. If you are not one of them and find it a struggle to deal with a new kind of device and do not have the patience to go through the complicated technical documents then stick

Buying a Smartphone - Part 1

Buying anything which has a lot of choices and the details are buried under multiple technical jargon's is a difficult proposition. It becomes more difficult with the number of choices in market. The world is though ruled by couple of big names but there are many small players who either offer very good quality or features packed at attractive prices. And then there are many sites whose sole job is to compare the different features. What we will do here is to demystify the various elements of a smartphone to make sense of them.

Display size

Display size tells about how big or small is the screen. Display size is usually given in inches and there is a single number and not length and breadth as we are used to when we look into an area. The