Sentences with phrase «at his phone while»

You know they live there, because they're looking at their phone while they're talking to your hostess, and it's not to check the weather.

I walk Violet to school every day along a busy road and I am repeatedly shocked by how many people are looking down at their phones while in full motion (and subsequently nearly run us over).

As for the many people going through profiles who can appreciate a photo, how many times do we have to see someone starring at their phone while they take a picture of themselves in a bathroom mirror showing what shampoo they use and the dirty towels on the floor, oh and looks like you'll need toilet paper soon pic.

This is nothing new of course, as we already have politicians trying to pass laws to get us to look up like a decent human being instead of at our phones while we are in the middle of the street.

His great intellect, alas, does not include understanding the dangers of looking at his phone while driving his pricey car at high speed through the rain.

But in the next scene, as she receives a direct rejection from the man she was just mocking, she calls him out for distancing himself too: «Are you such a dick that you're looking at your phone while you're dumping me?»

We reflect back on the games of 2016: the ones we loved, the ones we were only mildly enthused about, and the ones that made is stare blankly at our phones while we wandered into traffic.

The work starts with mundane moments observed while commuting or at home: a man staring at his phone while laying in bed or a woman in a leopard print sweatpants passes by on the street.

This is a subject we have covered many times on TreeHugger, and invariably there are dozens of commenters writing that distracted walking is stupid and people looking at their phones while crossing the streets are idiots.

Seniors do not tend to look at phones while crossing streets.

Blame - the - victim types will say that distracted pedestrians are the agents of their own misfortune — the image of the ear - budded millennial staring down at a phone while blindly stepping into traffic is often trotted out.

A good starting point: Never look at your phone while you're driving.

Having to look at your phone while you're in the middle of writing an important report can be incredibly distracting.

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You can keep yourself from being tempted to look at your phone while driving with Do Not Disturb While Driving.

For example, say your partner (s) has a tendency to look at their phone while you're talking.

Not exact matches

It sounds like the sort of trivial debate you might have with a friend over drinks at a pub, but here's an actual back and forth I had with my phone the other day while driving.

Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any of the other groups.

In addition, while the iPhone X is the most expensive Apple phone to date, starting at about $ 1,000, Tim Cook said during the conference call that the phone was also the most popular phone sold in China during the quarter.

At home, I can leave my phone charging in one room while cleaning or cooking in another.

The service, targeted at small business customers, lets companies cut ties with their desk phones while keeping features like auto attendant, phone number directories, and a feature that connects the caller to the next available employee if the first one isn't available.

The pay at iiNet is not much higher than the minimum wage yet we have to be 100 % happy and courteous on the phone while we work through peoples problems day in and day out.

(They also explained that Rivas had no contact with the public while at work other than by phone or email.)

The shift, which now covers the vast majority of new phones sold, has helped improve the carriers» profit margins while cutting into upgrade sales at phone makers, including Apple (aapl) and Samsung.

«Important issues can be things like the employee's ability to use cell phones at work or while driving; dealing with the appropriate way (or inappropriate way) that employees discuss the employer in chat rooms or on blogs after hours; or even the ability of the employer to address issues created by the ways the employees use their computers, e-mail, and voice mail,» Cooper says.

Krieger remembers, in the days before Instagram, being at a concert and seeing people in the front row snap photos of the band — and then wait with their phones out while the photo uploaded.

The trend follows the financial results seen at major telecommunications providers like AT&T (t) and Verizon (vz), which have seen their revenue from landline phones sliding precipitously while wireless phone revenue has boomed — at least until the past year or so.

Shatabdi Basu, Savoir CEO, explains how her new mobile app helps consumers meet health goals while dining out at their favorite restaurants — all at the touch of their phone.

While in line that morning at the bakeshop, Crowley's phone had buzzed.

If you're looking for a smart speaker that can do internet searches for you, handle complex requests, manage your email and calendar, place calls, and essentially act as your phone while you're at home, the HomePod is not the device for you.

«While looking down at their phones, they don't see the park across the street with a band playing live music.

Speaking of, while we were in Shanghai at the Huawei Connect event, Huawei released a new line of «nova» smartphones at an event in Berlin, to go along with their world - class P9 phone and the recently announced Honor 8.

It was interesting when it was new, but now it's largely seen as annoying, particularly for online visitors who may be stealing a few free moments to shop online while at work or in a meeting, and suddenly there's music blaring from their phone.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Tuesday, Time Inc.'s chief content officer and Fortune president Alan Murray tried to write the famous Civil War speech by memory while being interviewed on the phone by Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove.

At the same time, as people increasingly consume magazine content online on their phones or on social media sites while out in public, Playboy readers objected to pornographic photos considered NSFW: Not Suitable For Work.

While your toll - free phone number, website URL and / or P.O. box address should stay on the screen at all times, a «closing» segment should take place every ten minutes or so to encourage people to buy immediately or to offer a list of store locations where the product can be found.

While the country's two largest long - distance phone companies offer a variety of services that any business can sign up for, the third - and fourth - largest phone companies have taken aim at the low end — small companies with phone bills as slight as $ 100 a month.

A lot of times I'll be looking down [at] my phone or looking down at the floor while I think things through.

It keeps track of movement, calories burned and body temperature in real time while you're exercising — a quick glance at your phone will tell you how many calories you've worked off and if it's necessary to pick up the pace.

At most, only 10 % of modern adults were seen to be using their phones, while actual face - to - face communications and meetings were up significantly.

«You will also be able to add your car to the Tesla shared fleet just by tapping a button on the Tesla phone app and have it generate income for you while you're at work or on vacation, significantly offsetting and at times potentially exceeding the monthly loan or lease cost...

She claims the pain worsened from holding the phone in the crook of her neck for hours at a time while typing — because her bosses allegedly denied her request for a headset.

Now, standing in front of his wrecked car, on the phone with Teresa, it dawned on him that the damage hadn't occurred while he was at breakfast, it had happened the night before, and he had been so wrapped up in work that he simply hadn't noticed till the sun came out.

«You will also be able to add your car to the Tesla shared fleet just by tapping a button on the Tesla phone app and have it generate income for you while you're at work or on vacation, significantly offsetting and, at times, potentially exceeding the monthly loan or lease cost,» he said.

Users can have their own personal phone for silly games and photos of their kids, while the employer can have them carrying a productivity device at the same.

Instead of talking on the phone at our kid's soccer game, or watching TV while cooking dinner, or doing anything while doing anything, what if we focused on one thing, one business problem, one conversation?

While I slept well for the first time in days, I woke up to discover that my phone hadn't charged at all and was now at 15 percent with a full day's work ahead of me.

As a person who, at various points in the last five years, has held paid accounts with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box, all while also paying for additional iCloud storage, I personally rely on AirDrop to move photos, videos and whatever else between my phone and computer all the time.

It flickers in your fluorescent and LED lights in your home, it is emitted from your digital television screen, you're exposing your eyes to it every time you check Facebook on your phone, and it's bombarding your eyes all day at work while you stare at your computer.

While it's hard to quantify the dollar amount transacted with mobile wallets, Parks Associates estimates that proximity payment transactions — which require users to tap their phone at a point - of - sale terminal — generated more than $ 30 billion in the U.S. in 2016, a figure that's expected to top $ 300 billion by 2022.