Prosecutors later used phone records to show the location of suspects around the time of the robberies.
The SMS addressing screen keeps a list of recently used phone numbers handy.
While Asia and Latin America remain the greatest areas of used phone demand for Gazelle, the company said its biggest business in Africa is for BlackBerrys.
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Police said they used mobile phone records to track the kidnappers, according to AFP.
According to Pew, 42% of cell owners used their phone for entertainment when they were bored.
Anyone who had used a phone just once a week for at least six months qualified.
Below are the eight most common activities that a cell phone is used for after making phone calls.
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The wife had used the phone merely three months before developing symptoms.
The electoral authority is investigating claims that Conservatives used automated phone calling in 2011 to mislead voters in opposition areas about where to vote.
Most people are already walking around with a portable personal billboard that also texts and if they are really retro, can be used for phone calls.
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When the dude used her phone to take a photo of himself (why do thieves always do this?) the photo automatically uploaded to her Facebook account.
Those who upgrade or replace their phones before the two years are up must pay a financial penalty proportional to how long he or she used the phone.
She has used her phone to transfer rent money to her roommate's bank account and will sometimes log onto her account when shopping to check her recent spending habits.
He discovered that if just 30 people in a standard carriage with 151 passengers used their phone radiation levels exceeded the limits recommended by the International Committee for Non-Ionising Radiation.
But there were plenty of vocal critics, people who threw around the phrase "Apple fanboy" and demanded to know how we could forecast success without actually having used the phone.
We've said it before, but it appears that we have to say it again, judging from a recent study showing that 75% of respondents have used their phone in the bathroom.
When he was arrested, he initially claimed someone else called Troy had used his phone, however he was caught sending a text message using that name from a police station after his arrest.
Mr Edwards said he had used the phone box since moving into his house 19 years ago, but there had been a payphone on the same spot since the end of World War II.
The study used cell phone data, both calls and text, from residential and business callers, and overlaid the caller and callee on the U.S. map to show just how far apart geographically those relationships are.
The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than a hundred journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In addition, the new active lockscreen becomes a customizable gateway that lets people quickly jump to the most used features, like making a phone call, sending an email, taking a picture or anything else with the same quick gesture usually used to unlock the phone.
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It also said that the script used on the phone by its in-house debt collecting staff had not been used since January 2010.
Instead he used his cell phone to call a colleague at another office building eight miles away.
Furthermore, no information was available on how many minutes per day a subscriber used the cell phone.
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Investigators traced the phone used to send the photographs to Afghanistan, but the owner was not involved.
Last month Dish won a ruling to convert some satellite spectrum to be used as cell phone spectrum.
The lead kidnapper used his satellite phone to call Abu Hamza in London for advice on how to proceed.
Patrick Bearden, a salesman at a Home Depot in Dallas, used a First Phone to rescue several sales on a recent Saturday.
Though it can be used as a phone, the BlackBerry's power lies in its ability to push e-mail automatically from the company server to the end user.
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