When you get a call, the thing's got to come off your wrist and be held up to your ear unless you've got a Bluetooth headset ready to rock, but worry not: Neutrano's also showing a model of its Nutec WristFone that pops off at the base of the wristband so you don't need to unstrap it from your wrist.
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When you hold it up to your ear, it pretty much covers the entire side of your face.
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Hafsteinsson simply opened the Google Search application on his phone, held the phone up to his ear, and spoke.
The games were okay, but the game device looked like a taco when held up to the ear and sold half of the expected 6 million.
Mr Norris said he was able to hear a "pretty loud" Bill Gates, despite the fact that Mr Thoman "had the phone up to his ear".
For five years running the pros have had their jockstraps yanked up to their ear lobes by Beardstown Ladies, and their bums whacked with plastic spoons by Motley Fools.
Now when he gets a call Prideaux can either hold the prosthetic arm up to his ear, put it on speaker phone, or take it out if need be.
Holding it up to your ear when making a call likely won't inspire the same feelings of awkwardness as the Note II might do, and it's much easier to use for one-handed tasks without needing special keyboards or dialpads.
In fact, nurses such as Glassman will put the phone up to an unconscious patient's ear if a family member can't be there in person.
He said his girlfriend told him to pick it up in a doggy bag to ensure he did not touch the ear, which he took it back to his flat before calling the non-emergency police number.
The Digital Silence DS-421D headset is also fitted with a Wolfson WM7130 MEMS microphone in each ear bud to pick up the ambient noise around the user prior to cancellation.
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Wednesday's team announcement did lay to rest a few worries which had come to the surface when Jeremy Guscott was spotted in the Brewery bar with a mobile phone glued to his ear - although there was some scepticism, the possibility that Guscott was being called up to replace BOD couldn't entirely be discounted given Sir Clive's somewhat erratic selection policy.
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Unlike "surround sound" speakers, 3D audio can precisely pinpoint up to eight people in a room and direct sound at each one individually by sending separate signals to each ear, so that each person no longer has the awareness that sounds are coming at them from specific speakers.
Headed by Jose Gregori, a committed reformer who has Mr Cardoso's ear, its first task will be to come up with suggestions for police reform.
Inevitably the onlookers would start to shout, "Draw him, draw her, draw me, " and Sandy would take up the exhortation, if only to stop them from screaming in his ear.
The score is also shaping up to be pretty outstanding, and will be amazing with a pair of ear buds.
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To reduce the need for power, they designed a device to wake up and run only when it was taking measurements from the ear.
The screen and bezel work well with each other (at times you feel the bezel is also touch sensitive), the glass reaches just right up to the top and bottom of the Z10 with carefully left spared space for ear piecre an mic, this is occupied by two strips.
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"The Dongria's campaign became a litmus test of whether a small, marginalised tribe could stand up to a massive multinational company with an army of lobbyists and PR firms and the ear of government, " he said.
"When they told me I was paralyzed, it went in one ear and out the next ... because I had to get up and coach, " she said.
"Chatting people up at networking events is of limited value, but obtaining introductions is the key to getting the ear of the people they want to reach, " Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn.com, told CNN.
It's going to be feet up in front of a TV screen for him more than anything and then we'll have to play it by ear.
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