Jun 11, 2023 – SIG-Computing: Cell Phone Basics; SIG-Linux: No topic this month

Sharan Kalwani, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.

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When: Sunday, Jun 11, 2023, at 1:15 P.M.
Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice.

Sig Computing Topic: Cell Phone Basics

Presented by Francis Chao

Your iPhone or Android mobile phone is actually 6 separate radio
transmitter-receivers in a very compact device. If you get a working understanding of the details of these 6 transmitter-receivers, you can make better use of your mobile phone and save money:
o  6 transmitter-receivers in an iPhone or Android cell phone:
    Cellular transceiver,
    Wi-Fi transceiver, Global navigation
    Satellite System (GNSS) receiver = GPS, etc.),
    Bluetooth transceiver,
    Near-field Communication (NFC)
    and
    FM radio receiver
o  Not having a data plan so that Wi-Fi is the cell phone’s only Internet connection
o  Having a data plan but using mainly Wi-Fi for the cell phone’s Internet access
o  Various apps use different combinations of the 6 transmitter-receivers
o  Use the “MyGPSCoordinates” and/or “GPS Status” apps to get your
    latitude/longitude location from the GNSS receiver
o  “Cellular 911”
o  3G shutdown
o  Cell phone tracking

Francis Chao is a volunteer for the APCUG organization. He has been presenting for them for the past 13 years. He is currently a member of the Tucson Computer Society where he maintains an online presence via Zoom since he now lives in California. Francis is an avid user of Windows.., macOS, and Linux computers. His current list of presentations is available at http://aztcs.apcug.org/fc.pdf

Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation.

When: Sunday, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:30 P.M.

Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice. Click on link shown above.

SIG-Linux Topic: No topic this month

Presented by Sharan Kalwani

No topic this month

Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation.

Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice. Click on link shown above.

When: Sunday, Jun 11, 2023, at 3:00 P.M.

1 thought on “Jun 11, 2023 – SIG-Computing: Cell Phone Basics; SIG-Linux: No topic this month”

  1. The June 2023 SEMCO Meetings (except SIG-Programming) were recorded. Below are links to the video recordings:

    Board Meeting mp4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nf_jJTqOMODJaQ9YbYCtElPoq8mXP0-r/view?usp=sharing

    General and SIG-Computing Meetings—Cell Phone Basics mp4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qB3zNcq3n8nwjIzSOJc-z268HIbftFX0/view?usp=sharing

    SIG-Linux Meeting: No Meeting

    Supporting files were used in the meetings. Below are links to the files:

    SIG-Computing Meeting—Cell Phone Basics PDF: http://aztcs.apcug.org/meeting_notes/winhardsig/cell-phones/1-cell-phone-overview.pdf

    There are meeting notes from many other Tucson Computer Society presentations here: https://aztcs.apcug.org/meeting_notes/meeting_notes.htm

    SIG-Computing Meeting—Cell Phone Basics Chat txt: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18X3YbczsRI0xKOTLjpeRX3COsqOVtUli/view?usp=sharing

    SIG-Linux Meeting: No Meeting

    Sorry about being so late getting this up.

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