Sentences with phrase «use of the phone more»

A survey of students found that those who made use of their phones more than others had higher levels of feeling lonely, isolated, anxious and depressed.

The design, display, and specs of the S9 bring zero surprises, but they are the things that influence your day - to - day use of the phone more than anything else.

Rooted in Intelligent eye protection, the device has a blue light filtering which protects the user's eyes and reduces fatigue, making a long - time use of the phone more comfortable.

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In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

The health department also suggests consumers use wired headphones, wireless headsets, and speakerphone capabilities instead of holding their phone up to their ear, and opt to send more texts to avoid keeping phones close to their heads.

Affordable unlocked phones are much more powerful than they used to be, and any of our top picks would make an excellent first smartphone for a kid or young student who just needs a reliable cheap phone.

Not only has the use of mobile devices to access the internet risen sharply in the last few years, but so have mobile sales, as customers are more and more comfortable shopping from their cell phone.

More broadly, 53 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers use Android phones.

Someday, bots will know which phone we use, which car we drive, the type of furnace in our house, and much more.

The concept of phubbing (using your phone while someone talks) centers around the fact that we think there's something more interesting in life.

Some programs use speech analytics to capture phone conversations, converting them into data that can be used to create more accurate profiles of both customers and agents.

Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

And, to be fair, the process of using an accessory built specifically for your phone is generally smoother than hooking up a more general piece of hardware.

According to Beshara, more than a third of Americans use their phones as their primary internet device, and that number is growing.

More people are using laptops remotely than ever before, and some of us have figured out how to real work on a phone (usually with a Bluetooth keyboard).

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

A January 2014 fact sheet from the Pew Research Center about mobile technology found that, as of May 2013, 63 percent of adult cell owners use their phones to go online, and more shockingly, 34 percent of Internet users go online mostly using their phones.

«It makes sense to spin off the mobile - phone business using a public offering that would leave SoftBank in control and provide SoftBank with more cash to pursue its strategy of investing in companies with potentially high growth prospects,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

But California's new guidelines — and some of the news coverage they have inspired — can make it seem like using a cell phone carries far more risk than scientific evidence suggests.

One report said Apple could be using OLED screens rather than LCD screens, while the display would take up more of the front of the phone.

More than half of respondents (53 %) report using email, and 44 % are hitting the phones.

That's part of the reason it's lagged behind HTC, LG, Motorola, Huawei, OnePlus, and others in actually using USB - C on a phone — its shifts carry more weight.

Though retinal detachment is more common among older people, the average age of patients has been getting lower thanks to excessive cell phone use, Yu added.

But rather than settling those transactions itself or billing customers» phone statements, Isis believes working with the payments networks will make mobile payments more appealing to consumers and merchants, who can continue to use or accept the card platforms of their choice — only instead of using physical cards the parties will swap digital information wirelessly.

Even with privacy regulations, more of this information will become available to marketers as phones are used more like little PCs, creating opportunities for highly targeted ads and other marketing breakthroughs.

If Huawei is right, more phones will soon come with neural processors on board, and it'll make sense for developers to make use of the additional firepower.

Heejune Ahn, a professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, similarly found that addicts gravitate toward messaging and social networking apps and use their phones more between the hours of 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. than non-addicts.

It combines properties of NAND Flash memory that is currently used inside solid state drives (SSDs) inside computers and phones, but it is 1,000 times faster and can last through 1,000 times more data writes.

After news broke of the sale, the dealer fielded about 10 phone calls from more car shoppers interested in purchasing a car using the digital currency, Davy said.

These pages meant that for example a company like walmart could use its money and clout to make sure that its bedding links showed up ahead of bed bath and beyonds and jcpenny's for bedding or that its phones showed up ahead of a t - mobile website despite those speciality sites being a more appropriate link return.

We've had mixed results using facial recognition on other phones, but Mark Gurman of Business Insider says the system will be «quicker, more secure, and more accurate» than Touch ID.

If the importance of an integrated experience matter more with your phone than your PC, because you use it more, how much more important is an integrated experience that touches every detail of your life?

While the service promises to replicate much of the functionality of Venmo and Paypal, allowing anyone to send money to a recipient using nothing more than an email address, mobile phone number or bank account number, it mostly operates through banks as a simple and free way for U.S. customers to send each other money.

«With more than $ 6 billion of transactions across the CommBank app each week we know that our customers love using their phones to make payments,» said Michael Baumann, general manager of everyday banking and payments at Commonwealth Bank, said in a press release.

Augmented reality lets a person use their mobile phone to get more out of their surroundings — which essentially also lets you use a person's own environment to market to them.

I'm used to only seeing her once or (maybe) twice a year and instead have more of a phone relationship.

Web browsers are extremely important on mobile phones today, as the advent of 4G and better Wi - Fi connectivity means that people are using their phones more and more to browse the internet.

This fear of giving too much information away online has become increasingly common in the past few years as we've become more and more aware of privacy issues from using our phones, tablets and computers.

This year's theme «Think B4 U Post» aims to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.

But my favorite physical reminder uses your cell phone to remind you to stay calm during that time of day when anger is more likely to bubble up.

The one part of the survey which did make me a little sad is that kids are also more likely to confidently use a mobile phone before being able to read or ride a bike.

Or you could limit his daily use of the phone to say no more than two hours a day.

It's never right to shame moms, because like mom Anya Kamenetz wrote in TIME, using her phone while breastfeeding is something more of a necessity than a distraction.

Nearly twenty years later, there are many thousands more sites which can be accessed on phones or tablets as well as the computer, the majority of which are entirely safe to use.

If anything, refrain from getting on your computer, browsing the internet, or using your phone — all of these things are very stimulatory and will have you more awake than ever.

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The letter writers insist that a ban on smoking in the car with children would not set any more of a legal precedent than enforcing the wearing of seat belts or banning the use of mobile phones behind the wheel.

Some organizers have taken advantage of this fact to use Twitter to help rally communities in which cell phones are more common than access to the traditional internet.

Of course, a president could only use a club this blunt so many times, but we could also imagine a more surgical operation, with super-volunteers and other trusted spokespeople speaking to the media and visiting district offices, and large Obama donors and organizers in a district making discreet phone calls.

Some organizers have taken advantage of this fact to use Twitter to help communicate with and ultimately rally communities in which cell phones are more common than access to the traditional internet.