O2 have a sevice in Dublin city centre whereby you can pay for your parking ticket via your mobile phone. I just read about it on the http://www.o2.ie/ website; haven't tried it. Apparently there's a code on the machine and you type it into the phone and say how much and the machine prints a ticket. Wow! I could only find out about it on O2, checked vodafone and meteor - no mention of it. The http://www.mpark.ie/ website says it's available in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire. But that you need to register beforehand and that it's possible "with any mobile network" - however they only display the vodafone and O2 logos - no mention of meteor. It also says it will "be billed to your credit card or phone provider bill" - does this mean a credit phone (speakeasy, pay-as-you-go) user can't avail of the service? At any rate I think it's amazing and very useful! The demo on the mpark website shoes your NAME displaying on the machine after making the phonecall!!!
Our phones really are more than just phones:
- mp3 player
- camera
- video
- sound recorder
- amusement - games
- diary/ calendar/ reminder/ secretary
- radio
- phonebook/ addressbook
- torch
- crime buster (when the guards use gps to track a suspect's location)
- alarmclock
- watch
- hard cash (as good as! when you're at an mpark machine)
and they're only the uses mine gets put to - what about the raspberries with email and internet access etc.
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