He pulled his phone out again after the plane remained at the gate, he said.
Nokia and Microsoft should bring their first phone out some time next year.
The handset isn't going to weigh pockets down at 127 grams, but it's not the most slender phone out there, either.
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The upside is that some are already suggesting the Lumia 800 is the best Windows Phone out there so far.
If you want every other app on your phone out of the way of your Facebook experience, Home accomplishes that with style.
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At these moments, I pull my phone out of my pocket faster than a gunfighter pulls his weapon out of its holster.
So, using Skinput, someone could send text messages by tapping his or her arm in certain places -- without pulling the phone out of a pocket or purse.
This allows riders to gain comprehensive, accurate ride data from a dedicated device, while keeping their phone out of the elements and saving its battery incase of an emergency.
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Such support may be unlikely from Nokia, which considered adopting Android as its smartphone platform but selected Windows Phone out of a desire to keep the mobile market competitive.
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After a brief period of adjusting to having some weight on my wrist after a long absence, I remembered how convenient it was not to have to drag my phone out of its holster simply to check the time.
Insoo doesn't even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to slide it open, which buttons to push how many times to reach the "Send SMS" menu option, compose the entire text message, and hit the send button -- all without even looking at the phone.
However, unlike with WP8 and its NT kernel, other apps have no access to the lockscreen, so all you'll get at a glance will be calendar appointments or sparse notification icons for email, calls or SMS. Any missed tweets or Facebook interaction, for instance, will remain just that if you pull your phone out of a pocket and glance at it.
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Nokia is among the few phone makers out there to have brought out a vivid range of devices with a single-color polycarbonate body, meaning scratching the phone leads to blue or pink all the way through.
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The devil could be in the details when the phone comes out on Wednesday.
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Many business travellers carry a fully-charged spare for the moment their phone runs out of juice.
Second, data convergence and the smartphone came along and put cell phone manufacturers out of their misery.
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If you can't live without your phone, hold out for a smart phone.
An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months and a year before reaching to the ABS block mockup stage.
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"But when Fiona on the phone screamed out 10 million at the top of her voice, I thought: 'This is exciting!'"
Days passed, and not one of those unknown phone numbers lighting up his phone turned out to be a team offering a lifeline.
Apple announced on Monday that pre-orders of the phone topped 2 million in just 24 hours and that its initial supply batch for the phone sold out in just an hour.
"Victims now are far less likely to be a bashed-up pensioner and more likely to be a young professional who has had a phone grabbed out of their hand or pocket, " he said.
During their earnings call, the social network reported 618 million daily users accessing Facebook on their mobile phone, out of a total 1.1 billion daily users (I suspect some nice rounding errors there), but how people use Facebook on their mobiles is different to the desk-bound usage, and reduces their value to advertisers.
"Nokia has been focused on getting its new range of Windows Phone handsets out, and they may now want to send a message that they have some strong intellectual property - particularly as they have been in the business so long - and they are willing to assert it, " said Andrew Alton from Urquhart-Dykes and Lord.
Almost 1 out of 3 Kenyans is connected to Internet, 75% have a mobile phone and 1 out of every 2 uses his or her mobile phone to make mobile payments.
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They sought a warrant from Judge Gauvey in order to contact the phone company to find out where the phone (and likely its owner) could be found so they could arrest him.
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The next phone to be rolled out is the Q10, a keyboard-equipped phone that RIM says is on track for an April launch in some markets and is winding its way through the carrier testing process in 20 countries.
The ultimate in street cool, this wristwatch phone is straight out of James Bond.
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