Dave Meredith points out that Virgin has improved its rolling stock, and praises the "laptop and mobile phone power points, onboard radio stations, and clean, comfy seating".

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In the United States alone, four companies have been created to develop and commercialise HTSC wires and tapes for electric power and mobile phone applications.

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Snapdragon is an application processor, which is an integral part of a smartphone and is used for giving the computing power for handling mobile phone software and applications.

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It takes at least 20 milliwatts to keep a mobile phone operating in standby mode, but Nokia hopes that power scavenging might eventually deliver 50 milliwatts, enough to trickle-charge a phone.

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The storm knocked out 25% of mobile phone towers across 10 states, forcing them to move to generator power.

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Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Wireless Traditional Mobile Phone Satisfaction StudySM--Volume 1, both released today.

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Nokia's cheapest mobile handsets come equipped with flashlights (because of frequent power cuts), multiple phone books (because they often have several different users), rubberised key pads and menus in several different languages.

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MTN, the largest mobile-phone company in the region, had to build its own microwave transmission backbone and power supplies.

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Three high-performance MIPS computing cores--or brains--can be crammed into the same space within a phone or mobile device as a single Intel Atom mobile processor core without increasing the device's power draw.

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