But the phone companies have a two-way switch network, which is underrated.
Touch functionality will also provide a fast, fluid way to switch between apps, move items within apps, or smoothly navigate from place to place.
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Available in silver, black, white and red, the E-PM2 offers an intuitive vertical touch navigation menu displayed by pressing the MENU button to provide a fast and easy way to switch modes with fewer steps.
Along the top edge, you'll find the e-ink display and a two-way power switch -- slide it to the left and Ruby behaves like a secure hotspot, slide it to the right and it's a public access point.
While that's hardly a chore, we can envisage some moments when we'd like some way of flicking that switch while we're on the road.
The service's market research indicates that nearly 7 in 10 people support the switch as a way to reduce costs, Donahoe said.
International investors have probably been behind much of the volatility, pushing the markets this way and that as they switch between enthusiasm and risk aversion.
In 1953, Operation "Big Switch" was under way as prisoners taken during the Korean conflict were exchanged at Panmunjom.
Mandatory emissions trading is only one way to help countries and companies switch to using less, and cleaner, energy.
The British cars were equipped with standard headlamps - but the only way of dipping them was to switch to non-standard fog lamps.
Such was their dominance, United seemed to switch off mid-way through the second half and were fortunate not to be punished as Bolton laid siege to their goal.
"The only way you can get buyers to switch to a Chevy or Pontiac is to build something that is head and shoulders above the competition, " says Christopher Cedergren, the president of Nextrend, an auto consultancy.
Embedded inside it is a batteryless RF switch, and the way it works is that upon the release of the spring mechanism inside, a tiny bit of power is generated for the 2.4GHz RF transmission ( ZigBee compatible), and whatever device is connected to the RF control outlet on the other end will receive the on or off signal.
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The terrain in these neighbourhoods is steep, so escalators operate one way in the morning for commuters and switch direction before lunch.
Now, with the Verizon iPhone on the way, she's considering a switch.
Unfortunately, we have no scientific way of knowing which agent you should switch to -- our best data suggest that they are all about equal.
Increasing fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks will go part of the way, but for most of the switch America will have to rely on a greater use of alternative fuels.
Experience has shown that the best way to change a process is to set up the new way of doing things, then flip the switch (flip method), rather than making incremental changes (drip method).
Second, an easy way (as Palm has shown in WebOS) to switch between them.
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This paves the way for new insulating materials which allow the transistor to switch faster, but are not tolerant of high temperatures.
Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO, says Postal Service market research and other research has indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs.
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Even so, it would seem that full colour, fully flexible displays that can switch fast enough to show video are still some way off.
But the fund managers who administer 401(k)s on employers' behalf see offering advice as a way to build relationships with members, so that they do not switch money-managers when they change jobs or retire.
Governments could also cut way back on widening and expanding roads to reduce congestion, because the switch to driverless cars would make such a huge difference.
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One obvious way for firms in the power sector to reduce their emissions is to switch the type of energy they use, for example from inefficient coal-fired power stations to efficient gas stations.
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To switch back to the other app, just rotate the phone the other way.
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To switch from fire metaphors to baseball analogies, the GOP thinks the only way to play the game is with Long Ball.
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"I heard that Iceland was planning to switch its economy over to hydrogen, and I realized we could do it way faster on Yakushima, " says Taniguchi.
Heighway Pinball's solution is to introduce inductive switch technology: solid state sensors beneath the playfield, well out of the way of flying steel balls, which are triggered when a ball passes by without any physical contact.
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