Keeping Your Cell Phone Charged After Sandy Hits

Forbes provides tips on how to keep your cell phone charged for longer periods of time, if Sandy knocks out power at your home:

Text messages can be quicker and take up less energy than calls but if you’re keeping your phone on, turn off notifications (like the notices that pop up when you get email) and any unnecessary apps as well as WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth to preserve energy.
If you have a smartphone, dim the screen to its lowest possible level.  And, as tempting as it may be to surf the web or access Facebook and Twitter, turn off data unless you need it because that, too, uses lots of energy.  Also turn off vibrate mode — that too uses extra energy. If you must leave data on, use the slowest (and most energy efficient) network possible. 3G is more efficient than 4G and 2G or Edge uses less power than 3G.

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