Rogers has had an unlocking policy in place for awhile, but it isn't what most would call reasonable: an unlock isn't even an option until the contract is over, which could involve a 3-year wait and obsolete hardware that isn't worth the effort.

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When an incoming call or message arrives, it can be received via voice command without even touching the phone.

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Sometimes the software mistakenly identifies an answer machine or voicemail, and terminates the call, even though it has been answered by a human being.

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"It was an easy decision (to join Reading), even after I got that call to try and change my decision to come here, " he said.

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"It's been an absolute honour and a privilege to play with him and even more so to call him a mate, " said McGrath.

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This is not the Tuscany of Renaissance masterpieces and grand classical architecture--it's not even an extension of the cosmopolitan, Anglo- infiltrated countryside the English like to call Chiantishire--but perhaps a few days' diversion from all that, a place kept true to its roots partly by being overlooked.

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