Is that why the company is rumored to be getting into the phone business?
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Before, developers were limited to working with the Web browser built into the phone.
The companies got too ambitious and packed umpteen new component types into the phone.
PLC, went looking for partners to help it respond to Apple's entry into the phone market.
With Apple making the phone thinner, longer and packing more into the phone, the Cupertino, Calif.
In a way, you crawl into the phone and you're by yourself, playing the game.
It's more like Samsung is throwing a bunch of technologies into the phone to see what sticks.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has a problem: He's taken Apple into the phone business with the iPhone.
Does that power only arise over something as emotional as hacking into the phone of a young female murder victim?
But chip giant Qualcomm snapped up a lot of high-profile assignments and newcomers like Nvidia started nosing into the phone market.
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"All of my friends are saying Forbes is calling around to dig up dirt on me, " he barks into the phone.
With emails, phone calls and text messages all coming into the phone, it is also where many affairs are carried out.
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He was yelling into the phone: "Well, I'm the Sheriff and if you don't like it you can come and arrest me!"
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In the demo, a Microsoft manager spoke the word movies into the phone, and it immediately popped up show times nearby in Las Vegas.
He wondered if the call was long-distance, if he should yell out to stop reading Scripture into the phone at twelve cents a minute.
"I was screaming into the phone at that point, " Sankey testified.
The Ascend Mate also integrates a new navigation service into the phone using augmented reality, but Huawei did not go into detail about the service.
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Users can also turn off an auto-correction feature that had annoyed some users by suggesting substitutes for words they were attempting to type into the phone.
Through its partnership with Absolute Software, makers of LoJack for Laptops, Samsung will soon embed a theft recovery system right into the the phone's firmware.
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The investigation is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the Met's inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.
That latter component takes the place of the RAZR's battery cover (as pictured after the break), with a tiny arm that plugs into the phone's mini USB port.
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Scotland Yard launched the probe after learning that the News of the World had hacked into the phone of a slain teenager in that newspaper's quest for scoops.
She had hired private investigators who may have used pretexting and other means to manipulate their way into the phone records and garbage bins of board members, employees and journalists.
Underneath the removable cover, there's a 2, 000mAh battery and a slot for microSD storage expansion, though the official listing doesn't tell us how much storage is built into the phone.
The most radical design feature: an antenna that wrapped around the edge of the phone, allowing Apple to pack a bigger battery into the phone and make it thinner than previous models.
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The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.
Both the Facebook and Twitter applications for Windows Phone (as opposed to the integration into the Windows Phone People hub) are lacking many features of the web services, and lag significantly behind the official Android and iOS clients when new features are announced.
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To keep Qualcomm ahead, he puts his faith in innovation, packing ever more lifestyle features into the cell phone of the future.
To buy text for the SoftBook, you plug the unit into the nearest phone line, and it then dials into the proprietary SoftBook download server.
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