Though rates vary depending on the app and ad format, marketers generally pay more for local mobile ads.

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Orchestra does plan on expanding the app over time, depending on how it's received.

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By contrast, a native app is installed directly onto the smartphone and can work, in most cases, with no Internet connectivity, depending on the nature of the app.

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You can auto-upload (over WiFi and data, though you can opt out of the latter) your multimedia as you capture them, and once it arrives on the web app, it's easily downloadable or shareable, depending on what you want to do.

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So far, Verizon has no safe driving app, most likely depending on independent apps already available on the market.

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Depending upon the app that's built on it, the opposite can, of course, be true, too.

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Verification took a full 25 seconds to timeout (compared to 5-15 seconds to grant access at lower levels, depending on lighting conditions), so using this app requires p-a-t-i-e-n-c-e.

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This nifty Google app automatically switches specific phone settings depending on where you are.

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You may like one more than another depending on how much tweaking you want to do to the app's settings.

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Loyalty program enrollees can download a mobile app that lets them see different offers depending on where they are moving in each store.

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One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.

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The app is designed to provide a portrait or landscape mode interface, depending on the device, for easy visibility and use.

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