Sentences with phrase «phones out at»

But, with those new, shiny phones out at full price comes the depreciation of slightly less shiny and new phones which are still very much flagships in their own right.

Gen Xers were also more likely than millennials to pull their phones out at the dinner table.

Aside from any emergency or expecting a very important phone call, you shouldn't have your phone out at all during the party.

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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.

But as Goldberg points out, keeping your old corded phone can be problematic as employees become more mobile — and therefore harder to reach at the office.

Business analysts (who were young and fresh out of school, remember) were judged based on the percentage of their products that were in stock at any given time, and a low percentage would result in a phone call from a vice-president demanding an explanation.

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.

As Trump spent the Easter weekend at his Florida resort and tweeted about his tariffs plan, Kelly was out of state, though the men did consult by phone.

In the early days, the founders would sell glassboards on the phone during the day, and at 5 o'clock they'd walk out into the garage and make the product.

The question is if people buy into the idea that (1) smartphones really do harm their ability to take in the world (or, at least, are more «harmful» than «entertaining»), and (2) that they don't have the willpower to keep their noses out of their notifications, and thus need a phone that is designed to preempt most apps altogether.

Sitting at a corner table in a pub crowded with social media fiends who come together for a weekly networking event, Justin Peer pulled out his Nokia N95 phone and his iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard.

Block out certain times to check your email (perhaps at the top of every hour during weeknights and twice a day on weekends) and then shut off your phone.

Two years ago, I wrote about how the company had finally introduced a mobile app that wasn't really mobile — you can buy tickets with it, but you still need to either print them out at home or scan your phone at an automated kiosk at the theatre itself.

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.

Krieger knows this is how most people use Instagram: They're waiting for a bus or train, and they whip their phone out and click the app for a brief look at what's been posted.

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.

If you want to walk out of the office at 5 pm, stop checking your email and answering phone calls at 4:30.

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

That way, you can leave your phone at home when you go out on a run or a long hike.

At previous shows, running out of phone juice was a common occurrence given the constant emailing and tweeting from the convention centre floor.

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.

But the mobile phone can help out, whether she has a wish list, or when she looks at an item on her phone she can also see recommendations for what she should wear with it.

It'll be more limited than the Echo, at least to start — HTC exec Nigel Newby - House says that the company is still developing the software with Amazon and that Alexa will be implemented into the U11 through an update in the first month after the phone comes out.

You can permanently ditch a Burner number at any time, rendering it out of service and banishing it from your phone history.

But if phone - tablet hybrids truly are the future of personal computing, count me out, at least for the time being.

At Montreal website - platform developer Bandzoogle, CEO David Dufresne will get on the phone himself to hear out and reassure upset users.

It's an especially good feature if you're reading a long article or simply don't want the phone to go to sleep when you're looking at something longer than the screen's default 30 - second time - out period.

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.

You can easily buy 100 Mbps connections in Japan at an affordable price, and 8 Mbps ADSL is quite typical and cheap in the UK - it's thrown in as an extra for satellite TV and mobile phone service, for crying out loud.

The device, which I tried out at the company's event last week, is handily the best phone - based VR headset yet.

At $ 100,000, a phone switch is too expensive for small businesses, and the current model of someone coming out every two weeks to upgrade, repair or patch the old PBX has created an adversarial relationship with the market,» said Caleb Barlow, director of IBM Lotus Foundations.

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.

Instead of unveiling its latest phone in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it has done for the past few years, Samsung is holding out until March, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Instead of taking your phone out, you can quickly glance down at your watch to determine whether your friend needs help or someone liked a photo of your cat on Instagram.

Luckily, there are plenty of small changes you can make — from adjusting your sleep temperature, to turning off your phone at night, to dumping out the clutter in your desk — that add up to save you buckets, and buckets of the stuff.

The setup makes as little sense as Cineplex's useless mobile app, which also lets you buy tickets on your phone that you then have to print out at a kiosk at the theatre.

Put an out - of - office message on your email and check phone messages at the end of the day.

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.

I plug my phone into the charger at the front door, and the next morning, I grab it as I walk out the door.

Compared to what I checked out at the Las Vegas show, televisions, phones and drones were not that exciting.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

«It was like listening to all the phone conversations in New York at once and trying to pull a few of them out,» says Snyder.

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.

That's probably going to change once phones using Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 start rolling out over the next few weeks, but for now, the Mate 9 and its Huawei - made Kirin 960 chip have zero problems opening apps, installing apps, running multiple apps at once, or flipping through menus.

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.

Another downside: When my roommate walked in and saw a miniature bed sitting on our kitchen table, she laughed out loud at it, which has been the dominant reaction to the Phone Bed so far.

It turns out that as phone batteries age, not only do they hold less charge, they also lose the ability to output maximum voltage at one time.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

«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.

When we finished my second project at Google, the first was building StreetView and the second was taking the StreetView data then building out the maps database that you use on your phone to do turn - by - turn navigation for free, then this TV show came about.