For the first time ever, Kyocera has implemented its proprietary voice-activated command feature into the DIGNO S, allowing the user to speak to the phone to activate e-mail, phone and other commonly used applications - a function accessible by simply tapping an icon on the lock screen.
Buttons set into the elegant metal casing allow you to adjust the volume, select music titles, take phone calls and activate voice control or personal assistant features.
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This can be used not only to adjust the volume and select tracks, but also to take phone calls and activate the voice control or personal assistant features.
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Finally, you sit and wait--sometimes for hours--while a salesman calls headquarters to activate your phone.
At its site, customers can choose a plan, buy and activate a phone and have it delivered.
To take advantage of Traffic, Directions and Information, customers simply have to pair their Bluetooth-enabled phone with SYNC and activate the service via www.syncmyride.com.
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Without looking away, she then punches a button to activate a satellite phone and calls in the whale's coordinates to a worker on the ground.
Same for when you activate a credit card over the phone, or call a 900 number.
After a simple setup, parents can activate a specialized place on the phone for kids to play - complete with their own customizable Start screens - where they can access only the apps, games, music and videos picked by parents.
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"While the suite of in-flight communication hardware that we plan to launch this year will include the ability to place and receive phone calls, whether or not we actually activate voice calling depends on passenger feedback, " said airline spokesperson James Boyd.
Because it may be too much trouble to actually take out your smart phone, or heaven forbid open it up and activate the required app, by wearing your wallet on your sleeve, so to speak, you are wrist ready at all times.
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In another example of help from technology, a teenager can activate an app on his or her cellular phone and then put it in their vehicle's cupholder, where it will score the driver's abilities based on acceleration, cornering and braking, she said.
Before departure, he said, find out whether your phone will work at your destination, and if so, whether you can activate the international roaming access function that would allow you to receive and make calls.
MotionTools also has built in gesture recognition that allows users to gently swipe their phone in the air to launch applications, skip through songs in a playlist, activate presentation effects, navigate the web, and much, much more.
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The carriers say they want to encrypt and store the credentials in the phone's SIM card, the small chips placed in the back of phones to activate access to mobile networks.
Only those that have purchased a phone between November 26th, 2010 and January 10th, 2011 will be eligible, though, and you won't exactly get that cash right away -- you'll first have to first buy and activate your iPhone 4 at the full retail price, send in your trade-in phone within 30 days of activation, and then wait four to six weeks to receive the debit card.
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