Cooper advocates simpler, specialized devices--his wife is the creator of the Jitterbug, a hyper-simple phone for the elderly.
"A quick and simple phone call to me right away would have defused the whole thing immediately, " he said.
While taking advantage of some of these repayment rights requires just a simple phone call or email, others, like IBR, take a considerable amount of time and energy.
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The real problem for Apple is that it's tough to build a smart phone that can compete with the ease of use of a simple flip phone equipped with buttons.
Surely, Nokia has staked its claim as the dominant player in the cell phone market, and there is still huge sales potential in emerging markets for a simple cell phone.
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Barclaycard PayTag provides customers with the choice of simple mobile phone payments now, without having to wait to upgrade, and at no additional cost.
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In a nutshell, he recommends purchasing a simple prepaid cell phone plan from Straight Talk or a regular monthly plan from T-Mobile.
The "My Music" has a strong Chocolate smell to it, but uses a simple one-line LCD below the keypad to keep the phone's appearance simple when the slide is closed.
Just getting to the point where we would indeed expect the simple handling of a phone to wear off that dyed layer.
Because American Giant's supply chain can be traced all the way back to the US cotton fields, with fabric being specially woven and dyed for it, getting a new shipment of raw materials wasn't as simple as making a phone call and waiting for an overnight delivery.
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There's no way to use Bluetooth to turn the unit on and off, and simple instructions for turning a Bluetooth phone into a remote control are not yet available.
The new SocialTV Timeline is also available for syndication by third parties as a simple module that works in smart phone and tablet applications as well as on web pages, allowing users anywhere to sync to TV across more than 400 channels.
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After a few weeks of giving this thing a go, I can say that it really does make good on its simple promise: It charges your phone (there are different versions for the iPhone 5, older iPhones, and micro-USB-charged phones), and does so without taking up much space.
Many times it has to do with response to and resolving problems, warrantee support, even simple things like does anyone answer the phone.
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BeoVision 11 is a DLNA TV, which makes it simple to stream music from a smart phone and to watch a film stored on a NAS drive.
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Drivers access the Ford Service Delivery Network, a network of data centers providing turn-by-turn directions, business searches, and on-demand news, sports and weather information, through a simple voice-connection using their cell phone.
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"Africa has the most advanced cell-phone-based payment systems using simple text, " Mr. Palella says.
Globalstar's 48 birds act more like flying antennas, carrying calls to switching systems on the ground that are simple to operate and are linked into local phone networks.
Morris says the Microsoft effort is currently just a research project, and in its earliest commercial incarnations would likely be a simple controller for a music player or cell phone.
The two-devicers argued that the connectivity for phone calls would come from a simple, bare-bones cellphone while all the fancy data management would occur on a Bluetooth-tethered, PDA-like device unbound from cellular contracts.
This seemingly simple innovation has apparently never been done on a phone before.
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The software is simple, and vaguely reminiscent of an older mobile phone.
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What happens is simple: by repeatedly focusing your attention on the phone, you unwittingly teach your brain that checking the smartphone and email all day is useful and important.
The simple version of his objection is that once a phone company knows your location, that information loses certain privacy protections, meaning law enforcement should be able to get access to it.
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The smartphone is designed for an optimal gaming experience with a six-axis sensor that fine tunes its accelerometer's ability to interpret simple movements of the device, so when the phone tilts up and down or left and right, the game can immediately respond in the same directions.
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Managing data use on a Windows Phone 8 from Verizon Wireless is just as simple and helps relieve the stress of data use.
It enables disabled people to control lights, make phone calls, operate air conditioners and perform other simple tasks.
Consider this: the phone companies are selling you bandwidth, plain and simple.
We found that ever so simple little feature added a greater sense of interaction with the phone, plus -- let's face it -- it's just a ton of fun to do.
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French director Damien Baroghel submitted a short and simple video showing a man talking to a friend on his phone, and simultaneously stopping by an ATM to cast his vote on election day.
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