However, the RAIB investigation found that the phone had not been used since August 17 that year, and had not been used by Mrs Hudson on the day she died.

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Cold-calling seniors, swindlers have found, is an effective way to reach them because they answer the phone and will not immediately hang up on them.

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The pricey little gizmos have all sorts of built-in features but there's one thing the phone does not come packaged with, a user's manual, as NPR's Alex Cohen found out.

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However, most apps can be found on the android, and many, but not all, on the Windows 8 phone.

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Folks increasingly found they needed a personal mobile phone as well as the corporate phone, because they did not want to use the Blackberry for personal use.

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While the Lumia 900's processor is single-core, not the common dual-core found on other high-end phones, I found the phone worked smoothly and quickly, and played videos fine.

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So while the phone may have GSM network access on shore (because no CDMA signal is found), that is not the case when you are on a ship because ships provide both GSM and CDMA cell sites.

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Both found, as one put it, "the data do not support the hypothesis that mobile phone use is related to an increased risk" of brain tumors.

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