The iPhone, along with some competitors like the BlackBerry, are really hand-held computers that happen to make voice calls.
More than 600 million people use Skype to make voice and video calls and send text and audio messages.
Even though the Galaxy Player isn't a cellphone, it can make voice and video calls, and send text messages over the Internet when you're in Wi-Fi range.
If nothing else, the presence of an 8-inch tablet that can make voice calls makes a 5.5-inch phone that can do the same seem a lot more reasonable.
Voice-over-Internet apps like Skype allow users to make voice calls over the Internet while instant-message apps from WhatsApp to Kik let people exchange text and photos without being charged for a text message.
And if you've ever wanted to seriously used a Wi-Fi network to make voice telephone calls using Voice Over Internet Protocol technology (VOIP), your network will need a feature called QOS or Quality Of Service.
The device won't let you make voice calls or surf the Web, but it does offer a host of safety features: It can map a bread-crumb trail of your coordinates so that people back home can track your whereabouts from any Web browser.
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As the world's first operator to launch HD voice in Moldova in 2009, Orange is pursuing a strategy to make HD voice mobile generally accessible, for it to become the communication standard of tomorrow.
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You could be the one who inspires someone to make their voice heard next November.
On Monday night, I asked you to make your voice heard in this debate.
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Now, on Monday night, I asked the American people to make their voice heard in this debate, and the response was overwhelming.
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And that website, you can get everything -- all the information you need to figure out how to make your voice count.
Aggressively make your voice known, in public forums and on the web.
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If you agree with me, you can visit SaveMyFlexPlan.org for more information on how you can make your voice heard on this issue.
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There are enough leaders in this team that once you are on the pitch they know their jobs and they make their voice known.
But at a time when the unions are in decline and the economy still seems robust, can labour still make its voice heard politically?
It's pretty easy to get cynical about Congress, but if you don't make your voice heard then you have no right to bitch about this later.
By the way, if you want to make your voice heard on pet medications, email your views and concerns to the FTC by Nov. 1.
It has a permanent United Nations Security Council seat and a robust defence capability, as well as ties to Africa and the Arab world that make its voice count.
Since 1989, their international influence has been greatly reduced and they have decided that Africa must be united if it is to make its voice heard in the global economy.
Verizon has said it plans to implement the technology in 2014 and Sprint has said it plans to make HD Voice an option on the Sprint-exclusive HTC Evo 4G LTE.
That means whenever you make a voice call while the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network, your Republic phone places it over Wi-Fi rather than using a costlier cellular phone network.
The small business community now needs to make its voice heard about changes to the tax code that will help them continue to be the engine of jobs and growth for this country.
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Mr Davies, now a Plaid Cymru councillor, said Wales will need to make its voice heard at a UK level and the Wales Office has a role in that but "whether it needs to continue in its existing structure is up for grabs".
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Cardinal Brady said in his Christmas message that he hoped "that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator".
Picking up the pieces in the Middle East, trying to make its voice heard in the war on terror, under pressure to do much more to sort out the problems of regions that were seen, in the past, as mere targets of trade opportunity all these demands are forcing Europeans to think how they might better orchestrate their dealings with the outside world.
"HD Voice, " also known as wideband audio, is a technology designed to make a caller's voice, and other noises, sound on phone calls as close as possible to how they do in person.
But what if your phone could alter your voice to make you seem more attractive and persuasive?
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