But location-based services that use the mobile phone's ability to signal its exact whereabouts (within about 50 metres) will proliferate.

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The interface with large text and icons is user-friendly, but achieving this means an absence of features you might find with popular router firmware dd-wrt, such as the ability to change signal strength or bridge together multiple networks for wider coverage.

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But in this case the police were able to track the phones to an apartment complex nearby, thanks to the ability of the phones to signal their whereabouts.

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One of them is the ability to pair a concept with a signal, or a meaning with a sound.

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When an app wants access to data or functions on your phone, such as your contacts list or the ability to send text messages, it can signal potential security or malware risks.

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Nextel ( S) made use of external antennas on their phones and some of them still have external antennas all of this is to give the customer the ability to receive and send wireless information when in lower signal areas.

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