Not only can you take your phone with you, but anywhere you plug it in, you get your own phone number.
If you have forgotten your phone you will type in your phone number and a secret code (or simply speak your name) and carry on shopping.
You can also backup your phone to iTunes and restore it by connecting to you PC or Mac or backup to iCloud, but you had better do that before you drown your phone.
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Once you unlock your phone you can insert almost any SIM card you want (the iPhone3 and 4 series take a different size SIM so be careful), foreign or domestic, prepaid or not.
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Digital Lifestyles tried one out, and came away impressed, both by the Siemens S440 handset they tried out (which, of course, still works without Skype), and by the M34, which, in addition to Skype, allows you to IM with your phone, and even control your PC to some extent (so that, for example, you can use your phone as an iTunes remote).
They ask you for your email, they ask you for your phone number.
Mobile is a really powerful medium because you have your phone with you all the time.
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Besides if you have a Xscale Pocket PC phone, it's cool to say you Overclocked your Phone.
This won't guarantee your screen's safety when you drop your phone, but it at least increases the likelihood of it surviving an impact at an angle.
Granted, your mobile banking application will load much faster, but if you lose your phone, that information will be available to anyone who finds it.
Before you leave on your next trip you could simply drag and drop files that reside on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer, and you will have them accessible wherever you have your phone.
It also throws in a "Find my Phone" feature, a remote wipe and a camera option that will let you see your phone's front or rear camera views -- as well as snap pictures remotely and store them directly on your computer -- without activating the display (a very useful feature in case your prized possession gets stolen).
The new Duet D888 option let's you mix up one of Cellular Abroad's roaming SIM along with a second of your own, so theoretically, you could make this your primary phone if you do a lot of traveling and hate breaking your fingernails (or your will to live) every time you want to swap cards between phones.
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You pick up your phone and order a large pizza as you take off your tie and prepare to relax for evening.
Now you'll note that I said above "if" you have your phone paired.
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Imagine ads that ask to call you on your phone, or push a game or a contest to your personal computer.
And then you must take a moment to find and launch that app before you point your phone's camera at a QR code.
If you lose your phone, Mobile Me will display a Google Map that shows where your iPhone is, as long as it's turned on.
There's a kids corner feature too that locks out important features when you give your phone to your kids so they can't email your boss.
Knox is a new feature that lets you divide your phone into two halves, one side for work, and one side for your personal life.
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Our company will change everything about how you use your phone.
Well, your mobile wallet will replace the paper receipts with digital ones that you can archive and never lose, even if you lose your phone.
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There is also a locator system, so if you know your phone or other valuable is in the home but cannot locate it, the app will find it for you.
If AR is in its infancy, QR codes have been around for a while and the square barcode symbols that take you online when you point your phone at them are popping up everywhere.
However, unlike with WP8 and its NT kernel, other apps have no access to the lockscreen, so all you'll get at a glance will be calendar appointments or sparse notification icons for email, calls or SMS. Any missed tweets or Facebook interaction, for instance, will remain just that if you pull your phone out of a pocket and glance at it.
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You can answer your phone again -- nobody is calling you in the middle of dinner asking for your support.
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If you don't want to worry about going through the process, you can still listen to it within the app itself, but it won't play in the background, which means you'll run into a major problem if you want to do anything else on your phone while you groove to your favorite jams.
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For starters, if you search for a restaurant on your phone, you can send it to your navigator so that you don't have to enter the address manually (and we all know how annoying that is).
You can also search for a business by name or category and get directions that way, but if you have your Android phone paired, you can just use Maps normally and then, when asking for navigation, the phone will inquire whether you'd like to use Glass.
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