Sentences with phrase «much as a phone»

And yet I find that months can go by without so much as a phone call!

Without so much as a phone call from a family member, it is likely that the nameless Iraqi man will be sent to Medical City, a public hospital in Baghdad that currently houses more than 2,000 Iraqis at any given time.

As much as your phone is fun, it's also a source of stress.

He skipped town to go back to the estranged wife without even so much as a phone call, email or anything after almost 4 months of dating.

I wouldn't say the actors were slumming it so much as phoning it in.

Yet despite the program's good track record and the $ 27 million that the city had invested in it, Lam dumped it without even so much as a phone call to the program's developer, Robert Slavin.

It's wise for Chevrolet to be addressing the smartphone's well - being, as much as the phone works in tandem with the car's technology.

nobody really uses their tablets as much as their phones.

Harlan O and Harlan P have not been in touch with each other for 20 years, so it is quite a surprise when Harlan O shows up in Beans Creek, checks into the Wayfarer Motel, and ups and dies, before even so much as a phone call to his estranged son.

I admit that I didn't use it much as a phone, mostly because its bulky size made it awkward to hold to my ear while chatting...

For an 8 - inch tablet that most people won't be using as much as a phone, a $ 399 MSRP (or $ 499 with LTE) is a pretty high ask.

Because it's not like these Android Wear devices are doing as much as your phone is.

I would have liked to see more speedy NAND here, as the Z2 Play costs about twice as much as phone like the Moto G5.

Not exact matches

One of a number of reasons I stayed out of my business offices and worked at home as much as possible was because when I went to the office, I was «drawn» to listen in on, interfere with or critique every phone call, look at every fax, poke my nose all the way into everything — to the extent that I ruined everybody else's productivity as well as my own.

This doesn't come as a shock to someone who just spent the better part of an hour trying to convince Comcast (CMSA)-RRB- that $ 180 is way too much to pay for too many bad TV channels; often - unreliable broadband; and downright terrible phone service.

They also need to train managers to deal effectively with employees who underperform and / or violate expectations (such as spending too much time on their phones).

Millennials will appreciate the experience since they have spent much of their lives with a mobile device within reach at all times, as will anyone in sales or manufacturing who uses a tablet or phone to get their work done.

All of this applies just as much to detecting people's vocal nuances over the phone.

Should leaders start every meeting with a reminder that discussions are not to leave the building, much the same as theater goers are told to turn off their cell phones?

She spoke about how technology has made it easier to connect, but also has confined people to their phones so that they don't interact with the physical world as much.

Nokia itself is not giving much away about its preparations, beyond saying some staff at the 600 - strong technologies division are working on designs for new consumer products, including phones, as well as in digital video and health.

The camera is definitely the new keyboard and capture / communication device, but I'm into its speed, ease of use, and functionality rather than its good looks since pretty much every phone that matters today looks about as good as the next one coming down the line.

Should our precious phone croak, we (yours truly included) often fly into a panic and replace it straight away, without so much as budgeting or shopping around for a good deal and that's no bueno.

I love a good paperback as much as anyone, but the convenience of downloading a new book right from your phone can't be beat.

Neither really makes that much of a difference in every - day use as everything on the phone moves around swimmingly.

With that said, the Galaxy S9 phones offer more versatile cameras, as they take good shots in decent lighting, and they can take much better photos in low - light environments than the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

New research shows that when people check their phones while sharing a meal with others, they don't enjoy themselves as much.

Monolithic conglomerates such as Google, Samsung and Apple can afford it because such devices are but two pieces of their much larger wholes — they can take a bath on phones and tablets since they pay off in other ways, like keeping people within their larger ecosystems.

Best Buy (bby) is closing its 250 small - format mobile phone U.S. stores, but rather than reflect problems at the electronics retailer, the move illustrates so much of what it has been doing right as it proves a retailer can push back at Amazon.com.

People are using their mobile phones to go online as much if not more than their laptops.

«We're not competing so much with Amazon and eBay as we are with whatever game or social media you play with on your phone,» Blachman says.

Rumors suggest the new phone could cost as much as $ 999.

Turn off your phone, shut down your computer, and isolate yourself as much as you can for as long as you can.

Once connected to a traditional phone jack, the $ 119 (all prices street) black - or rather, gray - box serves pretty much the same IP / PSTN conversion function as the ATA adapters you get when you sign up with Covad, Vonage or other VoIP providers.

Adding in information from personal assistants such as Google Assistant and Android cell phone movement and use, Google can map much of a person's activity throughout the day.

«So even as innovation is producing wonderful things for consumers — you know, mobile phones instead of pay phones, email instead of snail mail, taxis at the press of a button — what you also see is that companies now have much higher odds of dying and dying suddenly,» says Vedantam.

Luckily, we're already spending about as much time browsing profiles on our phones as we are on computers, according to comScore, and the meaning is twofold: online dating will both continue to grow in terms of popularity, and shrink as a barrier to meeting people, ahem, offline.

AR, even in primitive forms such as the mobile phone game Pokemon Go, has had much broader adoption, pointing to even bigger potential as hardware advances.

«The phones just aren't ringing as much,» said Ian Lochore, director of residential sales at Baker Electric in nearby Escondido.

Believers in the technology - is - alienating - us theory are quick to point out the real separation is happening in more intimate settings, such as at home, where families aren't talking much at the dinner table because they're all on their phones.

Facebook's Home interface for mobile phones went pretty much as fast as it came while everything Microsoft has tried has failed, sometimes — like the whole Xbox One used games fiasco — in spectacular fashion.

Would Apple still be charging as much as it does for its phones, and would the company be posting eye - popping financial results?

Apple makes a good phone but the Pavlovian response of their customers has as much to do with psychology as product quality.

Cell phone adoption grew exponentially as carriers innovated ways to bring costs down for consumers — at a rate much faster than even McKinsey could predict.

System prices can be as much as $ 500 per phone station.

We don't let conflicts fester, and we communicate as much as possible face - to - face and via phone.

(As an aside, is it too damn much to ask the phone manufacturers to have a phone whose battery lasts at least through a reasonably long business day?

He largely avoids taking meetings in person or on the phone and conducts as much of his business as he can through email.

Changi's CEO believes design and design thinking can help travellers love airports as much as they love their phones.

I wonder if the value of all the deductions for your car, smart phone and coffee, are worth as much as the net income you make, especially if you can pay yourself through an entity that you wholly own, then use something like a solo 401k to deposit 25 % of your income into retirement savings.