Word: phoning
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...ever wondered whether the carrier or phone maker has more control over the cell phone in your pocket, let me make it clear: it's the carrier. Last week, I reviewed an LG phone that Cingular launched to run on its high-speed digital network. This week, I looked at Chocolate, the hyped-up LG phone Verizon Wireless introduced in order to draw more attention to its V Cast Music service (LINK). Both phones are very slick in entirely different ways, highlighting the priorities of the carrier. Chocolate is as much Verizon's as it is LG's, and although...
...Chocolate has gotten early buzz for being "iPod-like" - by that, the buzzers mean that it has a circular touchpad with an "OK" button in the middle. In truth, that's where the phone's resemblance to an iPod ends. Four more touch buttons around the touchpad come and go as needed during a call or when a menu has pop-up options. It takes a while to get used to the fact that parts of the phone's face can suddenly become buttons, but it's so cool that I could deal with...
...Music button on the phone's right side is a stroke of convenience. Unlike other quick-access buttons I've seen, this one allows you to toggle. You quickly access and then hide tunes, allowing them to play in the background as you go about your business. Taking its cue from the circular touchpad, the animated main menu lets you swirl through options. It is a major aesthetic improvement over Verizon's current standard menu system, and key features, such as the phone's Bluetooth networking capability, are easier to locate...
...hospital in Tyre, Mohammed Shalhoub breaks down in tears as he answers a flurry of phone calls from friends and relatives. His six-year-old daughter, Zeinab, his brother, Tayseer, and his sister, Fatmeh, were killed. His wife, Rabab, and four-year-old son, Hassan, survived and were being treated in another hospital. A former student of Islam, Mohammed says that his faith will sustain him. "We believe in God. We have a history of sacrifice and martyrdom," he says. In 1996, the massacre at the UN base in Qana galvanized the West to arrange a ceasefire. But few residents...
...Probably the scariest moment of the whole ordeal for me was when I called my friend, who like many of the international students was still at the University, and over the phone heard the emergency loudspeaker system in the dorms announcing that everyone should stay in the shelters,” Maya wrote in an e-mail...