Word: handset
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...estimated $1 billion the industry will have to spend to upgrade its networks to accommodate the change, but consumers will be picking up that tab; some providers are already collecting a small surcharge.) Even carriers that end up with a net gain in subscribers will lose money in handset subsidies, sales commissions and activation costs, Entner says...
...conquer the bane of headsets and bring the flair of pimping, another modern pastime, to the bland world of cell phones. As he says on his website (www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi), “I am the coolest stud at MIT University—I hacked an old school telephone handset onto my cell-phone. Now I walk around Cambridge, MA, looking like a phat pimp...
...sort of ‘technology pimp,’” he explains, “but a lot of Europeans bought into it. They really think I’m this ‘phat dude’ that just happens to carry a rotary-phone handset around.” Rahimi’s real reason for inventing the phone was a technology conference for Third World countries that took place last December. He took home second place for his unique device. By attaching a huge archaic handset to his tiny Nokia cell phone...
...most talked about and admired private companies in China, a team of mobile-phone engineers was very busy on a recent weekday morning--busy reading sports articles and playing solitaire and Ping-Pong. One engineer, at least, worked on a circuit board, prying it out of a plastic handset with a box cutter. "This team is young," said a supervisor. "They don't really know what they're doing...
...important to test this preliminary research to confirm or disprove it. Salford agrees, and is careful to emphasize that he thinks mobiles have saved far more lives than they'll ever cost. But when he speaks on his own phone, he uses a headset and places the handset as far away as possible. And, just before hanging up, he adds, "I also keep my conversations very short!" Until research settles the issue of mobile phones and health more definitively, that may still be the safest call...