It's the sort of magic that HTC's been using for a while, but it does help the new phone to stand out from Samsung's existing phones that are starting to blur together.
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If an Android phone wanted to stand out, it had to offer what the iPhone couldn't on the hardware side.
Finally we asked Valerie, the park's 7, 400-pound African elephant, to stand on the phone and toss it to the pavement.
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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To protect your Impulse Controller while it is tethered to your keychain it comes wrapped in a very clever plastic housing that doubles as a stand for your phone while playing a game in either portrait or landscape mode.
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If I'm on a key phone call, I like to stand up and pace while talking.
In a city that sees 48.8 million visitors each year, the best way to claim a corner of one's own may be to hide it behind a secret phone booth, underneath a pizza stand, beyond the kitchen, on the other side of the wine cellar or in a train car.
It also features several Nokia-only functions designed to make it stand out from other Windows Phone 8 devices.
The optimism for tech stocks is generally reserved for the global players that stand to benefit from smart phone rollout and Internet infrastructure work overseas.
Best Buy has greatly expanded the mobile phone side of their business and has opened up new stand alone Best Buy Mobile shops.
Sony is looking to succeed in mobile and, with just a week away from the world's premier phone tradeshow, has the company created something that can stand up against current Android champions and win?
The 4S had to be dual-core to keep up with the high end of the phone market, and to make the rest of the stand-out benefits on show - the new, embedded Siri and gaming - possible.
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He said he carried her body to a stand of trees, walked to a pay phone near the pool of the hotel and, instead of using his cell phone, called a friend who owned a boat that was tied up at a nearby dock.
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And if you're willing to stand with me and work with me and make phone calls with me and knock on some doors with me, then we can finish what we started in 2008. (Applause.) We can make this middle class strong again.
Lewis Dunk later took the witness stand and told the court he had been on the phone to a girl for 35 minutes and saw nothing of what went on.
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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.
Each icon panel gets a light shade to make them stand out individually, and every time you turn on the phone, they all animate very briefly by lightly popping in and out.
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For two years now, that basic, terrestrial formula was enough to make Angry Birds the de facto king of mobile gaming, and a stand-in for a casual gaming revolution that was gripping phone users and proving a full-fledged commercial phenomenon.
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We look forward to continuing to work with Congress, the wireless and mobile phone industries, and most importantly you -- the everyday consumers who stand to benefit from this greater flexibility -- to ensure our laws keep pace with changing technology, protect the economic competitiveness that has led to such innovation in this space, and offer consumers the flexibility and freedoms they deserve.
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You've got to stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends.
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.
If you get your boarding pass on your phone, some airlines can update it if your seat or flight changes so you don't have to stand in line at a kiosk or counter.
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