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hey guys it's Joe with another Android quick tip all right so this is a t-mobile g2 it is running CyanogenMod 7 which is an open source Android ROM but you don't have to have all of that in fact this may work on some other devices even those powered by iOS or Windows Phone 7 you'll have to experiment and let me know in the comments below but what you will need to have is a web browser in this case I'm using the browser browser which is based on Chrome you're also gonna need to have an internet connection and you can see down here I'm connected to a Wi-Fi why is this on the bottom you'll have to come back for my next video to find out so subscribe to the video channel if you haven't already done that and last you're gonna need to have GPS turned on now you'll see why in just a minute you're familiar with Google Places right we're gonna team that up with a little something so here's the scenario you are out and about you are on the road you're in a another city maybe even another state and you need to report something to the police it's not an emergency so you don't want to call 9-1-1 but you still need to report it how do you do that well you could look up in a phonebook the local phone number you could bother 911 or you could fire up your web browser go to google and search for police now that's gonna give you a list of police related results we're just going to search that and you can see you know we've got law enforcement and all kinds of stuff right well here's the fun thing you go over to places or local you do that and now all of a sudden you have a list of local police related places near you for example I'm in Syracuse City and right over here I have the phone number - Syracuse City police well clear field is the city right mixed by and Sunset and Roy are next to that so not only do I have a map and a directions button where I can use Google Maps Navigation to take me right there I can touch that button and I'm not going to for obvious reasons and that will then open up the dialer and ask me if I want to dial that phone number and connect me really fast so are you gonna use this frequently well first of all I hope not but the reason I bring this up and the reason I thought it was worthwhile is Verizon has recently had some problems connecting 9-1-1 so when people are in desperate need of calling for help they can't because 9-1-1 for some reason doesn't work and that's because 911 isn't really a phone number but a concept it goes to your local carrier and from there your carrier routes it to the closest emergency response handling dispatch center so if something goes wrong in that chain help isn't going to come using this tip as long as you have again a web browser an internet connection and GPS turned on you can find the phone number the real phone number to dial to get help just in case 911 isn't working again I hope you never have to use it but it's there now if you didn't know about Places or Google local search let's go ahead and do something a little bit less emergency related let's search for pizza just to end kind of on a light note and right there you can see I have all the pizza places near me and I can very quickly and easily do the pizza factory tap to dial there you go one more button and I can call and order pizza so really kind of cool if you like seeing quick tips I'm in need of hearing some of yours so please leave those in the comments down below that would be fabulous what do you do with your Android that's quick and easy but something that you couldn't have done otherwise if you like seeing this kind of stuff give it a thumbs up of course head on over to pocketnow.com so you can read other articles and subscribe to the video channel so you can see other Android quick tips for pocket now I'm Joel Ely