[cosimo]

Recently a friend sent us an E-Mail describing a unique use for your cell phone. For those who have remote locks (keyless)on their cars and lock their keys in the car. This could be a real time saver.

#1 Call someone at home with a spare set of keys on your cell phone.

#2 Hold you cell phone about a foot from your car door.

#3 Have the person at your home press the unlock button on their end.

#4 Your car will unlock.

Distance is no object, you could miles away.

The person that sent tried this and it definetly works. Try it.

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[flash]

lol - i will definitely try that - makes sense though if the bandwidth of the phone transmitter allows it

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[banditsc]

That's one of those old emails rumors, it's not true. Keyless systems and cell phones use different kinds of signals and transmit them at different frequencies.

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[flash]

that was exactly my thought - i didn't think the cell phone transmitted a broad enough band of frequencies to include those, but you never know - carrier wave? harmonic?

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[rhudeboye]

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A buddy of mine told me about this last year. I'm not a gambling man but I told him Id give him a 20 if it worked. He tested and no go. complete myth

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[gryphon]

My friends and I had a beer and mythbuster night a while back. None of our five vehicles responded to this experiment. BUSTED.

Tom

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[cosimo]

Wel, the person's husband didn't believe it either (tech type). They tried it and it worked. I will have to try it myself. What can I say.

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