After all, consumers make most of their purchases close to home or, if they have a mobile device, close to their current location.
Homes were evacuated in Montgomery Close after the device was found around 22:30 BST on Thursday.
In addition to features available for the Advanced Series, it features a five-inch multi-touch glass screen in a brushed-metal housing as well as a powered magnetic mount that automatically snaps in once the user holds the device close.
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Users who are shopping on the couch while watching TV, the device most close at hand is probably going to be that.
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After seeing the device up close and spending a few minutes handling it, our main gripe remains the lack of a Lightning connection.
And now, here at IFA 2012, we got a chance to spend some time with the device up close at the company's booth.
The team has created an energy scavenging device that is attached close to the insects' wings.
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Examine the device's backplate close-up and you'll notice a much more subdued implementation of the cross-hatching we first saw on the Galaxy S 4.
For instance, holding down the on-off button or removing and replacing the battery typically causes an Android device to reboot and close all apps, including MDM.
So, there may never be a Windows 7 Phone tablet, but that device above looks pretty darn close to what one may have looked like.
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The device could have been placed too close to a nerve in Strasburg's right arm, leading to discomfort for the right-hander in Monday night's start against the Braves.
Other people close to Apple, however, say the device will be more like an iPod Touch with a bigger screen that will make it easier to watch movies, play videogames, read electronic books and surf the Internet.
"The end of the rainbow is some automated device that will be able to come close to normalizing glucose, " says Francine Kaufman, chief medical officer in the Medtronic diabetes division.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq, dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin, and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
He is enthusiastic about the promise of Kensey's device but cautions that no one yet knows how close the link is between viscosity and heart disease.
While Facebook was the home of close friends and family, Twitter was the real-time broadcasting device for the rest of the world.
But thanks to Grindr, there are over three million gay men in 192 countries who have replaced that guesswork with a wireless device that lets them find others that may be as close as the next table in a restaurant, according to my November 21st interview with CEO, Joel Simkhai.
The device was also quick to launch apps, as well as close out of them abruptly if ever we changed our mind and hit the Start button.
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We continue to be confident in our 4 year outlook on mobile device share, which assumes that iOS and Android further dominate the smartphone market with likely close to 85% share combined by 2015.
Footie fans can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to the state-of-the-art trolley which comes complete with tilting iPad holder and speakers, a front bumper complete with a sensor which lets off a warning beep if you get too close to other shoppers and an onboard battery with self-charging solar panel to ensure the viewing device never runs on empty.
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Every iPhone launch goes through three phases: the warm glow of initial adoption, followed by close attention to flaws and, eventually, acceptance of what it's like to live with the device day to day.
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Let me tell ya, very little, certainly not even close to even a quarter of a billion dollar, especially if all test will require a new FDA510K medical device approval.
The device, which is clipped to a reader's glasses, buzzes when a book is brought too close to the face.
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