So this is our challenge to you telephobes: Use your phone three times this next week.
The bottom line is this: what infectious potential does your phone actually represent as a vector to spread the flu?
Pressing the WhatsApp key took a second or two for the app to open, and generally navigating with the buttons (no touchscreen here) will test your patience unless this is the most premium phone you've ever had -- something that might actually be the case for much of its market.
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By focusing your attention over and over on that phone, you are unwittingly teaching your brain that this action is a priority.
Still, it's worth discussing in case this is a crucial factor for you when choosing your next phone.
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One novel twist in all of this is that T-Mobile will offer to purchase back your phone if you don't want to keep it.
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This is why setting up push notifications for e-mail on your phone can be very beneficial.
Clearly, this is not a realistic approach since you do need to check your phone for messages throughout the day, just not every 5 minutes.
This is an app that lets you use a PC to configure your phone more quickly, since you can type out your credentials on a full-sized keyboard.
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This is, in other words, the fabled process of waving your mobile phone in front of a scanner at the till to pay for your groceries.
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TuneIn now will suggest related stations and Glympse, a location sharing app, will automatically pull your destination from the car's GPS. Overall the data that powers the apps is still pulled down by the phone, so watch those data caps, but without a doubt this is a far safer way of using apps than actually picking up your phone.
Traffic data is included here for free, though the phone warns you that you may wind up seeing a few ads mixed in from time to time to cover it. (We didn't see any during the course of this review.) If traffic is noticed anywhere along or near your route the phone will throw up an indicator to warn you.
This vision is a play on convenience through miniaturization, like a Bluetooth headset freeing your hands from the phone.
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This tiny Bluetooth 2.1 controller is actually a jack of all trades device as it will control your phone, tablet or PC for gaming, multimedia control, remote camera trigger and even help find your keys -- via a free app -- if you lose them.
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So if you are sitting at your desk talking on the phone and your desk is covered with tons of reports, newspapers, graphs and books, this means that a lot of that stuff will come out of your mouth during the course of an interview.
It looks like Microvision tends to favor the diminutive kind, however, as the company is looking to showcase its "ultrathin, miniature full-color projection display" at next week's CES. Hoping to cram this bad boy into your next mobile phone, PDA, or other handheld gizmo, the firm is touting its incredibly small form factor as the next coming of mobile displays.
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And, well, we have to mention this -- make sure you hold the phone in your left hand and check to see if reception is affected.
This is still a commercial product, though Microsoft still sees a future tabletop version for things like shipping photos from your phone, or organizing all your online information in one place.
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