The advantage is that they work whether or not you have cell phone connection.
Through satellite phone connection you can connect any Wi-Fi appliance, smartphone or computer directly to Internet.
Over a crackly satellite phone connection today, Prof Siegert managed a laugh at the timing.
She was talking a mile a minute on a lousy cell phone connection.
Usually, a GPS tracker transmits its position using a radio or mobile-phone connection.
The Indian government has made Aadhaar sufficient proof for opening a bank account as well as getting a mobile-phone connection.
And just like the payphone (sorry, Superman), the baseball dugout-bullpen phone connection will soon be irrelevant, thanks to new technology.
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Using a Bluetooth phone connection, the user can answer phone calls and end a conversation with the push of a button.
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Our phone connection was spotty, but eventually my husband go through to some well-known lodging chains on his iPhone and asked if they had openings.
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"I hope it's just the cell phone connection, " Prabandari told CNN.
The mobile grabs data off the Web about three times as fast as a regular dial-up phone connection, plenty of speed for e-mail and sending photographs or videoclips.
It gives you access to about 15 million tracks of music, on demand, where and when and on what device you want them, as long as you have an Internet or cell phone connection, and you can download tracks too.
"There could be a million distractions around him -- he could be on a bad phone connection, in an airport, running for a plane, and he'd immediately grasp a complex story as five of us shouted it into a speaker phone, and he'd have the fix, " she said.
Sitting with a laptop, a phone and a decent internet connection in a comfy seat on a train is, these days, almost as productive as being in a nice office in a comfy chair with a computer, phone and decent internet connection.
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The update is also full of smaller touches, however, such as the ability to download podcasts to the phone over a wireless connection, rather than synching the phone to a PC or Mac running Apple's iTunes software.
Which operates as a phone and a connection to the web and internet when mobile.
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More than 80 homes have been left without phone and internet connection in a North Lincolnshire village after thieves stole 1, 400m of copper cable.
But my phone had chronic connection issues, and with a large family group to manage, I was generally too distracted or otherwise engaged to check online.
"By 4 o'clock, I have to charge it, " said Ms. Goldman, who typically keeps her phone's 4G connection switched off.
At least five people have been arrested in connection with phone hacking investigations this year since a new investigation, Operation Weeting, was launched in January.
Finally, a personal note: if anyone does this to me you can assume this is the last friendly phone call or other connection we will share.
Iridium, which allows subscribers to make a phone call and data connection anywhere in the world, began operating in 1998 but soon ran into financial difficulties.
Users can quickly, safely and easily place a hands-free call directly from their SmartGPS when the device is paired with a compatible phone with a Bluetooth connection.
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They observed that residents of the compound burned their trash, instead of putting it out for collection, and concluded that the compound lacked a phone or an Internet connection.
Thursday's arrests came a day after the Crown Prosecution Service said London police had asked its prosecutors to file charges against at least eight people in connection with phone hacking by journalists.
One more handy feature: the unit is expected to take advantage of the TomTom plus traffic service via your phone's GPRS connection, providing real time traffic information as well as weather, news, and additional features.
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All the HomePortal needs is a connection to a phone jack and the computer.
Using an iPhone also lets the app register GPS coordinates and transmit all the data through the phone's mobile Internet connection.
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The signal takes less than a minute to reach viewers, who can stream it via a basic 3G connection on their phone.
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The update now gives you the ability to access your phone with a cellular data connection, whereas WiFi was the only option previously.
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