Rather than look for physical ridges, the scientists' method sweeps through AC frequencies to find the exact electrical impedances of fingertips in contact with the screen.
With the driver's seat adjusted to accommodate my 6-foot-1-inch frame, I struggled to make contact with the screen buttons, which are incidentally quite small and a little fussy.
The on screen GUI also provides access to your phone's contact list and allows you to place calls directly from the unit.
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The app allows a wayward phone to be tracked with GPS, sent contact and reward information that will display on the screen for anyone who finds it, or backed up, locked, and wiped of any data.
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Harten said he lost radio contact with Flight 1549 and the plane disappeared from his radar screen as it dropped below New York's skyscrapers.
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Contacts can be given additional prioritization by specifying them as favorites (by tapping the "heart" icon in the contact's tile), which also adds them to the favorites screen that can be accessed by swiping your finger.
Pre-screen the candidates, and bring the most promising ones in for an exhaustive, full-contact workout.
Nevertheless, for those who aren't out to garner new friends with their wrist attire, the revamped W700 does smooth a few of the awkward lines found in the original rendition, and aside from syncing with your Bluetooth handset, it offers up on-screen caller ID, an OLED display, a vibration feature to alert you of an incoming call, lockable contact list, and a privacy feature to set your outgoing information to unavailable.
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Apple also called to the stand Ravin Balakrishnan, a computer scientist and professor, to discuss Apple's "bounce-back" patent, which covers when a contact list, photo or Web page bounces back into position after being dragged past their edge on the screen.
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