Sentences with phrase «of looking at your phone»

The big idea is something almost anyone with a cell phone can understand: The need to break the nonstop addiction of looking at your phone.

But once I learned about the trend «phubbing» — snubbing your partner in favor of looking at your phone — and how it can negatively affect relationships, I decided that I needed to at least try and make a change.

The effect of looking at your phone for 2.3 seconds whilst driving at 30 miles an hour means you miss looking at 100 feet of road.

From a less dramatic perspective, I've also been guilty of looking at my phone during moments that should be some of the most important in my own life: meals with my family, time with my children, etc..

I struggle with the instant gratification of looking at my phone daily but always find that once I emerge from a floating tank, I look at the world with fresh eyes.

Have a day off social media - It is a great way to let yourself think and be creative instead of looking at your phone.

Then there won't be anymore pictures of me looking at my phone.

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.

You're tired of looking at your phone, and you just want to pay for your Sriracha and leave.

But honestly, we have had no problems viewing content on it, except in utterly bright sunlight, when we were generally too busy trying to find shade for ourselves instead of looking at our phones (summers in India can be rather warm).

I have always loved pea stone patios, and envisioned one off of our deck since we first bought our house, surrounded by tall blowing seagrass and hydrangeas — a little outdoor room for hanging out with friends and family under the stars, with music on and a fire blazing and everyone actually having conversations instead of looking at their phones

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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.

Fifty - nine percent of respondents ages 30 to 49 said they looked at their phones a few times an hour.

We're already at risk of losing our humanity just with the status quo because we're constantly distracted, because we have to look at our phones 100 times a day.

«The first thing I do is look at my phone,» claims the incredibly nearsighted Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, during a 2016 Facebook Live interview with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

«They are paying early termination fees in order to get customers to switch, and everyone followed, so if you look at the major changes that have occurred in the industry, from payment plans (to) turning off termination fees, no contracts, getting rid of roaming (charges), it's a longer list of things that are precipitated by them doing it first,» he told CNBC by phone.

Clearly, the push to get people to look at a screen on their wrists instead of their phones for all sorts of online information is still a work in progress.

«Now we need to build that bridge back up — we can move bits of data to your wrist, so you don't always have to look at your phone.»

Look at the home screen of your phone and you'll probably see a ton of blue — Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, all blue.

«If you look at the old model of advertising, it has an ascending story arc with a big reveal at the end, whereas in today's world, with everyone on their phones, you need to deliver the headline first to get their attention,» she says.

The features we discuss range from the clarity and brightness of Apple's brand new iPhone X display, which runs side to side and top to bottom, and other functions like Face ID, which unlocks the phone when you look at it.

«We looked at the world of media and data as it's growing today,» he told us over the phone.

Now that the technology is commonplace, no boarding agent will look at you strangely when you flash a phone instead of a sheet of paper.

«Certainly the iPhone is the flavor of the month, but when you look at the numbers it's just a tiny percentage of all phones on the market.

At $ 999, it's expensive, but the glorious new display looks like someone printed a glossy high - resolution brochure and fused it onto the front of a phone.

Our new phone cavalcade concludes today with a look at my favourite of the bunch, the HTC One (M8).

«A lot of people have told me that they didn't realize they were offenders until they tried to not look at their phones,» Davidson said.

Part of my night routine is to look at a preview of what the site's going to look like the next day — so the very first thing I do is pull up the site on my phone to make sure they match.

Then there's the concept of «phubbing» — snubbing an in - person companion by looking at your phone.

But instead of seeing digital monsters appear on the phone's screens when people look at an exhibit, people will get something a bit more educational.

Anyone who looks at a phone during one of Hoersten's meetings has to throw $ 5 into a jar.

This case is meant for larger phones with larger cases, so if you have a small smartphone with a slim case, you'll want to take a look at some of our other picks.

For example, we do a lot of sales calls from our inbound leads; and, looking at our metrics, we found that our contact rate of getting someone on the phone was low.

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

Style is subjective, but to me, the Honor 8 is one of the best - looking phones in the world, at any price.

Sure enough, when we looked at phones or more particularly the cellular communications business, we saw this hot new gizmo that everyone had to have but also involved red tape and complex contracts that nobody truly understood until they wanted to get out of them — and by then it was too late.

Whether you're looking to score a reservation at a hot new restaurant, to pair the perfect wine with your entrée, or to pay your bill with your phone, there's no shortage of apps on the menu to make eating out even more awesome.

Likewise, you shouldn't have to make numerous callbacks to get the next order, says seasoned tea importer Al Sharif, owner of GlobeTrends, in Chatham, N.J. «If he's doing the right things in the right way on the phone,» and still not making progress, Sobczak agrees, «then I'd have to look at his product and marketing.»

In his role at Blackboard, and formerly at MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students get jobs, which Blackboard acquired, he spent a «ton of time with college students in dorm rooms, looking through their bookbags and apartments [with their permission],» he told Inc. in a recent phone interview.

I love to cook, so most of night is spent over the stove, looking at a recipe on my phone.

The festival is a buffet of FOMO — that's «fear of missing out» — and everyone you talk to is looking over your shoulder or glancing at their phone, worried they're missing something big.

«You look at the core experience of the phone, which is to make voice phone calls and there hasn't been a whole lot of improvement in that experience,» Gartenberg says.

So Samsung was always known for building a lot of bells and whistles into our phones» cameras, like eye detection to make sure everyone's eyes are open and looking at the camera.

It has an SMS - to - email function, puts all of your phones and voicemail on one number with a profile you can use to look at your whole call history, and has low rates for international calls.

-- BlackBerry (TSX: BB) delivered a hazy look at its first - quarter results on Friday, posting a loss of US$ 84 million that fell short of analyst expectations, while offering few details on whether its new phones are selling well.

«Lots of times when I just can't think of anything else because I am so burnt out, I take my phone out and look at all the little videos and the pictures and put a smile of my face and just collapse,» Clinton said.

Nokia's OZO VR cameras made their debut around 2015 at a time when Nokia looked like it had all but given up on hardware, after seeing its mobile phone business — once the biggest in the world — get decimated by the rise of Android and the iPhone and eventually sold off to Microsoft (which continued to wind it down after also failing to resuscitate it).

«If you look at the platform it's still growing, if you look at the devices we've got a single phone that's sold 45million units,» Heins said of the BlackBerry platform.

Let's take a closer look at one of the best budget phones money can buy.

I can't count the number of times when I'm looking at something and pick up the phone and talk to [one of our CEOs] and if it's in any one of their adjacent industries, they know more about it in 15 minutes than an investor can learn in a lifetime.»