Sentences with phrase «off your phone for»

«I have a group of CEOs, where we meet every two months, we lock the doors and turn off phones for three hours.

Instead, strategy consultant Ron Friedman suggests quitting Outlook, closing email tabs, and turning off your phone for 30 - minute chunks of deep - diving work.

When that happens to you, find solitude, even if that just means shutting off your phone for an hour.

Go on experiences and trips and intentionally switch off your phone for hours at a time.

Maybe that means saying no to an extracurricular activity, getting up early once a week to workout, or even shutting off your phone for an hour each night to simply disconnect, relax and unwind.

So turn off your phone for a couple of minutes and check it out.

Around 30 minutes into the lesson he decides to take a call with a client and doesn't get off the phone for at least ten minutes and then half way through the lesson we take a break at a McDonald's.

Now, in a move that is aimed at killing off the phone for good, Samsung, in conjunction with local mobile carriers that include T - Mobile, Sprint and AT&T, is set to roll out an update that will stop the Galaxy Note 7 from charging.

Schedule and track time off phones for miscellaneous activities such as meetings, trainings and coachings.

Turn off your phones for the entire day and focus on your marriage and your family.

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For thieves, the feature will make the iPhone X more tempting to snatch since, if the phone is locked, they will have an easy way to open it before running off.

I'd have three or four contracts on the go, but I always knew one might fall off, so I was never shy to pick up the phone and ask for business.

This tip isn't for everyone, but for some high - powered women a little separation from their phones first thing in the morning is key to kicking off the day at a humane pace.

Once I got off the phone with him, I called the actual company who I was supposed to be talking to and asked for Peter.

On the other hand, your phone can distract you from important meetings, throw you off your groove and suck up time you could've used for more productive tasks.

The opportunity arises because the big four U.S. wireless carriers, led initially by T - Mobile, have been weaning their customers off of subsidized phones and trying to get everyone to pay for phones in full — in return for somewhat lower monthly service charges.

Managing your cellphone: When sitting down for a meal, make a show of turning off your phone.

You can swipe up on the screen when the phone is off to launch right into it, or double tap it to get the lock screen, for example.

Weaving our way through labyrinthine phone menus and sending e-mails off into the ether with no guarantee of a reply is the modus operandi for most carriers.

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

Samsung is opening up the sensor to other app developers so that it can be used for more than just unlocking the phone (PayPal is on board for payments, for example), but I got so frustrated with it that I ended up turning it off.

I turned my phone off for a few hours to let it charge and just stared out the window.

Apple ended up confirming that it began slowing down old phones last year, but says it did it for an altruistic reason: not to make older iPhones slower, but to help prevent them from suddenly turning off.

Since signing up for the loyalty program is through the customer's phone number, Soulman's was able able to send out a quick Valentine's Day promotional text that involved customers showing the cashier a message to get 20 percent off and some free desserts on Valentine's Day.

The article recommends using Skype or Google voice and avoiding paying for any metered phone service: «If you're paying anything more than a penny or two a minute for calls, except for certain international routes, you're getting ripped off.»

He went off to the library and scoured the U.S. Department of Commerce database of foreign companies for multinationals that had anything to do with phone systems and sent them each a letter soliciting them as customers and, more important, as agents for that country.

Create an internal time line of procedures for when you'll send the initial invoice, when payment reminders will go out and when you'll make collections phone calls or cut off services if past invoices aren't paid.

Some who answered phones said that understaffing meant they couldn't take days off and that they were monitored, to the minute, even for bathroom breaks.

One of us would say, «well, I have to check this recipe» or «I have to check something for work,» and the other would jump on their phones, forcing us to write the day off as a failure.

If you find the sleek, full - screen displays of modern smartphones off - putting and you want something more old - school, an upcoming Nokia phone could be what you're looking for.

Auctioned off to an unknown buyer on the phone after a protracted, 19 minute bidding war, the masterpiece's road to fetching nearly half a billion dollars actually began in 1958 — when it originally sold for less than $ 200, an art dealer who once owned the piece told CNBC.

That means eliminating all non-essential apps, especially games, scaling back the phone's connectivity options by disabling Bluetooth, disabling Wi - Fi auto - connect and turning off geolocation sharing for all apps (with the exception of «Find My Phone&raqphone's connectivity options by disabling Bluetooth, disabling Wi - Fi auto - connect and turning off geolocation sharing for all apps (with the exception of «Find My Phone&raqPhone»).

Negative thoughts aren't like an unwanted phone call you can simply put off for a more convenient time, right?

I snaked my own charging cord up through one of two grooves in the mattress, slid my phone under the silk sheets and shut off the lights, ready for a great night's sleep for us both.

For business users, it means they'll be able to fire off dozens of emails in less time and with fewer spelling errors and smudges on their phone display.

A Low - Cost iPhone Could Mean A Deal Between Apple And China Mobile (Bloomberg) China Mobile and Apple have been trying to reach an agreement for years, but the high cost of the iPhone and China Mobile's unwillingness to provide a subsidy for the phone meant that a deal never got off the ground.

We just designed an off - the - grid system for a railroad company for remote crossings, with security cameras, phone connections and motion - activated lights.

Phone companies bank on parents buying cell phones at this time for their recent graduates who are heading off to college.

Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others.

Most other phones can idle for days with 3G turned on and the screen off, and for weeks with no cellular activity.

Watch to the end for Colbert's take on how one of the «stunned» hosts of «Fox & Friends» finally got «grandpa» off the phone after half an hour of unhinged free association.

Imagine running a direct mail campaign by writing your own copy, individually typing that copy for each and every sales piece you plan to send, stuffing and addressing the envelopes one by one using names and addresses you got from the phone book, slapping on the stamps, and then sorting it all and carting it off to the Post Office yourself.

Tweens don't sign up for a Facebook account and don't need a phone number, but can communicate with other Messenger and Messenger Kids users parents sign - off on, so younger siblings don't get left out of the family group chat.

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But for workers who prize the solitude of the interval between home and work, it could mean one less excuse to turn the phone off and have some alone time.

Now, however, we're so consumed with our phones that we're not reaching for a pack of gum to stave off our boredom.

But I went for the «paying it off» option and you can't beat the feeling that you can never get a visit or phone call from the bank!

ROZZANO, Italy (Reuters)- Telecom Italia's (TIM) top two investors will face off for the first time on Friday as they put their battle over board seats at the Italian phone group to a shareholder vote.

The Abra Teller acts like a «human ATM,» helping consumers get digital cash on and off their phone in exchange for a small fee.

Still a lot of room to grow their revenue through people upgrading to smartphones and paying for data packages which they make more money off of then regular phones