The introduction of "world phones, " which can toggle between the two most popular cellular technologies, and the growing popularity of VoIP services like Skype, which route calls over the Internet, have expanded options, but also complicated the process.
Google Voice is a free service that gives callers a new phone number that can be used to ring different real-world phones they own and can send them an email transcript of voicemails they received, among other features.
In a world where phones now outnumber people, we think 3Ci is set up enviably in an enormous, rapidly expanding market.
"Summer through winter, the only connection to the outside world were these phones, " he said.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In Chris Harrison's ideal world, mobile phones would be the size of matchbooks.
Did you know that more people in the world have cell phones than access to a toilet, according to water.org?
The phone-hacking scandal dates back to 2005, when Prince William's staff first alerted authorities to the possibility that the News of the World had hacked phones connected to the prince, sparking a police inquiry.
The revelation that the News of the World hacked the phones of people it was writing about has diminished already limited public affection for tabloid papers and condemned them to the embarrassment of a public inquiry, headed by Lord Justice Leveson.
Slimtrader is a promising start-up that launched a commerce platform a year ago using the tools available in the developing world: feature phones and SMS. A traveler in Lagos, Nigeria can enter the text shortcode for a bus ticket and get a reply with a schedule and prices.
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Out of the 6.4 billion active mobile phones in the world today, 5.4 billion are so-called features phones like these, according to Worldreader statistics sourced from Analysys Mason.
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Next week at its annual Nokia World event in London, the company is widely expected to unveil some of its first Windows Phones to the world.
South Korea is one of the world's most advanced countries when it comes to mobile phones, and the world leader in broadband adoption.
At the same time, it has sold enough inexpensive low-end phones to edge out Nokia Corp. as the world's largest maker of phones.
Indians, like so many in the developing world, choose cell phones over computers.
They benefit every day when other people around the world use their mobile phones to donate to nonprofit organizations and philanthropic causes.
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With Nuance technology, people experience more humanized interactions with the world's best phones, tablets, computers, cars, TVs, apps and services from leading manufacturers and operators.
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Also Facebook etc and 40 most popular games in the world are in these phones, which make it hard for manufacturers to compete featurephones with Nokia.
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In another part of the email chain, the tabloid's outside lawyer, Julian Pike, describes Mr. Taylor's desire to prove that News of the World reporters routinely hacked phones.
Once the darling of the Android world with its Droid phones, Motorola has faded as Samsung's Galaxy S III has become arguably the chief rival to the iPhone.
The company dropped its bid for BSkyB following the revelations that its now-defunct newspaper The News of the World had hacked the phones of many celebrities and the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
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The company is making its push into the mobile world with its Windows phones, attempting to challenge Apple and Google in the fast growing smartphone market, in an attempt to dip its toes in all pools.
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What we saw in the past few days since a police investigation confirmed that The News of The World had hacked the phones of several public and private figures in the UK, has been a dearth of leadership.
The company's initial dominance of its market continues--Agilent tests 70% of the world's cell phones, and competitors like Japan's Enrisu and Techtronix (nyse: TEK - news - people ) are a fraction of Agilent's size.
The MEDIAS N-04C might well be the hotness in the world of super slim phones right now, but if you're looking for something with a little more oomph and protection against water, then NEC's also got you covered.
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Ballmer said that smart phones, which he said currently make up about 120 million of the world's 1 billion mobile phones, will in five years have 400 million to 500 million devices on the market.
There are 4.5 billion mobile phones in the developing world, according to data compiled by USAID, and many of them are "feature phones" -- not-so-smart devices that only make calls and send text messages.
With the microscope we became aware of a world of protozoa, airplanes made us creatures that fly, and phones connected our voices around the world.
There are now more cell phones in the world than there are toilets and toothbrushes, Topol said.
Mr Zardari has worked the phones, reassuring world leaders of his country's good faith and asking them to restrain India.
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