The app has hundreds of millions of users, with more than 100 million downloads on Google's Android phone alone.
The concept Simeonov shows here would be the high-end version with full LTE connectivity that could operate as a stand-alone phone replacement with a suitable Bluetooth headset.
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Those who are part of the phone losing demographic are not alone: every 3.5 seconds a phone is lost.
They get about 12, 000 phone calls on Thanksgiving Day alone from customers in a jam that need quick advice and emergency cooking tips.
Interested parties best be on their toes -- the phone won't be offered alone, and SDK packages will be available in strictly limited quantities.
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This fact alone makes its tablet and phone offerings different, not just other options.
This year alone the percentage of cell phone handsets outsourced will surge from 10% to as much as 18%, he predicts.
If Android is not free, Apple, Google and Microsoft will dominate the smart phone OS. The mobile OS licenses alone could create another Microsoft!
Fireball (or are we intimate enough for me to call him Daring?) points out further that Apple has never had even a majority of the smartphone market: let alone of the total mobile phone market.
These pitches generate thousands of return phone calls: in the case of 3Com alone, up to 60, 000 of them a month.
In 2011, India alone added 142 million new mobile phone subscriptions -- twice as many as in the whole of Africa, and more than in Europe, the Middle East and the former Soviet republics combined, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in a June 2012 report.
Spiffy hardware alone is no longer enough to sell a smart phone.
Best Buy has greatly expanded the mobile phone side of their business and has opened up new stand alone Best Buy Mobile shops.
AudioTron will compete with a growing number of devices like Kerbango, a stand-alone Internet radio appliance that plugs into a standard phone line and streams audio content.
On Emirates Airlines alone, passengers have made 650, 000 in-flight phone conversations since 2008.
It's rare to see such protection on a phone that's not being marketed as a rugged device, let alone a company's new flagship.
The review of his cell phone records, though, indicate that he had taken 47 days of vacation in 2011 alone.
Everyone alone at a table at Ritual was either typing on a laptop or thumbing a smart phone.
With increasing handset size, the possibility of one-handed use and the line between what defines a tablet or a phone (or even a phablet) becomes narrower, making it harder for manufacturers to stand out on hardware alone in an already crowded marketplace.
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