Dave Meredith points out that Virgin has improved its rolling stock, and praises the "laptop and mobile phone power points, onboard radio stations, and clean, comfy seating".
Some NFC readers can generate enough power in your phone to power up the security chip, which may be at least enough to get you home.
Just by sitting on your phone, Power Felt could provide relief during power outages or accidents.
That would let you literally use your phone to power your PC.
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The earthquake Saturday morning triggered landslides that cut off roads and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county, in Sichuan's Ya'an city area, which is further south on the same fault line where a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region five years ago.
But a larger phone might snag power users who want to be able to do more tablet-style work on their iPhones.
Katrina knocked out phone lines, power and water in Jackson and some people in the surrounding areas are still living without.
It takes about 4 hours to fully charge Google's flagship phone using wireless power -- check out the gallery above for some action shots.
The Nexus 4 smartphones built by LG Mobile Communications and SlimPort accessories seamlessly connect to any HDTV, monitor and projector as well as provide simultaneous connectivity to the phone's power source.
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Wysips says its 0.5 millimeter-thick screen can be plugged directly to the phone's power inlet to provide an extra four minutes of battery life for every 10 minutes it is exposed to direct sunlight.
"It's quite incredible that we're at this point when the power of the phone is crossing over that with baseline processing power of basic laptops, " Mr Shuttleworth told the BBC.
And Brin reportedly has a solar-paneled rucksack to power his phone and MP3 player.
He had no human contact, just a cell phone charged by solar power.
Other home networking technologies, including a few that use home phone lines and even power lines, are also gaining market attention.
For it leads to the conclusion that the market is not fully competitive as it is: that the phone companies have pricing power.
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By knowing that the hybrid-style processor will power the phone ahead of time, they can write their software code to handle different levels of CPU activities, or swap between the two.
Every phone is actually being commanded by the nearest cell site, and the overhead data is constantly being transmitted, and this data telle the phone how much transmitter power to utilize as it polls the handset(RSSI).
Nokero's SunRay Pro Power solar charger is perfect for keeping a cell phone charged, and for every Emergency Power Kit Voltaic sells it is donating a kit to an individual in need.
Phone lines were down and power supplies were cut in the Garfagnana area, Italian news agency Ansa reports.
Connecting at that speed and altitude also takes lots of power from the phone, yielding stronger emissions that could interfere with instruments.
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In the United States alone, four companies have been created to develop and commercialise HTSC wires and tapes for electric power and mobile phone applications.
We demoed them all on an iPhone 5 using a USB to Lightning cable plugged in below the armrest, providing data to the car and power to the phone.
Taking to Crowd Supply for funding, Gridcase's Reactor features an internal 400mAh battery and a crank-powered 500mAh generator that allows users to manually distribute power to their phone's fading cell.
The bill will grant an independent regulatory body the power to force phone and TV providers to sell assets if they control more than 50% of the national market share.
In order to make this a profitable business, Anand and his team have figured out to dramatically reduce the cost of making their systems and are leveraging cell phone and solar technology to power, maintain and service the units in the field.
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Based on the Snapdragon S4 from Qualcomm, the phone sports a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and an Adreno 225 GPU. We'll discuss performance details a bit later, but quite simply, the phone offers a lot of power in a little package and feels every bit as snappy as the dual-core One X and Galaxy S III.
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For example, a telephony API gives you the power of the phone network without the need to purchase expensive hardware, a mapping API makes it possible for you to build customized, dynamic maps without signing contracts with data providers, and a payments API lets you accept payments without having to worry about complying with complex financial regulations, etc.
All the computing power is in the phone, but you can use it like a laptop.
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His big idea: constant, renewable power can charge a phone and change the world.
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