The wireless industry says the Wise Media case isn't the norm and mobile carriers are closely vetting third-party vendors who offer services for ringtones and other products and then have charges placed on consumers' mobile bills.
True, this isn't always the norm for dealing with today's ills, but why add to the problems of an already overburdened world?
The cheap looking capacitive touch buttons aren't much out of the norm for Android, but interesting the phone doesn't have any haptics to let you know if you've clicked one.
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The materials are rather on the plasticky side and don't necessarily exude a large sense of elegance, but we're not going to say that the build quality isn't out of the norm for a device in this price range.
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Moreover, by offering increasingly generous packages to students who haven't demonstrated a need, private colleges and universities make haggling and bickering the norm, and direct too many dollars away from families that can't afford the high sticker price and whose needs therefore go unmet.
The world and its diplomacy and the arms control movement didn't have to accept that someone broke this norm and I think that's why the criticism of India has come so strongly.
Other than Mike Tyson, who was biting people's ears off, there wasn't another fighter who did something out of the norm.
But it wasn't until the 20th century that guitar bands became the norm in African cities.
But the four-year Scottish honours degree is likely to remain the norm - if only because there isn't enough time for more radical reform.
As one might expect, NIT bracketologists don't tend to come from places where NCAA bids are the norm.
If it's going to be a sunny day and if there's no swing about you need something out of the norm and I'm sure the Australian batsmen wouldn't want to face an on-song Steve Harmison.
The extra voltage delivered to speakers by this generation of component hasn't been especially wild -- just a couple of volts above the industry norm of around 3V.
Mr. NORM MORROW (Principal, Thomas Jefferson High School): No, I don't feel that way.
Senator NORM COLEMAN (Republican, Minnesota): I approve this message because outrage isn't leadership.
Mr. FRANKEN: We've been running ads about Norm Coleman's record, and so they're negative because his record hasn't been very good.
Still, pollster Greenberg says, that method won't hold for long, as people who use only mobile phones, Internet phones and the like become the norm.
"Many consumers today are looking for a way to enjoy Internet video on their TVs but they don't want to have to connect their PC or buy a separate box to make that happen, " said Norm Bogen, Vice President of Digital Entertainment Research at In-Stat.
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