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Today, the use of mobile phones is widespread and the number of users is increasing rapidly.
The economy is still underdeveloped, with low manufactured and hightechnology exports, low expenditure on research and development, and small numbers of computers and mobile phones.
Barely able to talk, she phones the preschool to tell them she will soon pick up her child.
They put their hands on their phones or their bags.
As we show, this exceptional development is determined by the ways in which mobile phones have been adapted to the local conditions of everyday life.
The younger generations are also as concerned with what cell phones look like as with their functions and quality.
The use of colour makes it simple (once you have thought of the idea) to produce a great chart of phones showing different classificatory groupings.
I guess another caller had phoned in the fire.
Mobile phones can be very useful in business as people who are away from the office can be contacted almost anywhere.
Usually, a company that requires its workforce to be mobile will issue mobile phones to them and pay all the bills.
We swapped phones, pretended to be other people.
The phonetic mode was thought to be a language-general phonetic mode of perception in which phones are discriminated without any influence of linguistic experience.
With the advent of small mobile computing devices like handheld computers and smart mobile phones, the range of possible web displays has increased.
We believe that it is insufficient to understand mobile phones simply as devices that are ' domesticated' in order to serve specific local requirements.
Mobile phones can allow field-work to be remotely coordinated on flexible timetables.
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Collocations with phone
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Digital signals allowed the phones to be more secure and decreased eavesdroppingit was relatively easy to eavesdrop on analog cordless phone conversations.
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Local 7-digit landline phone numbers start with 894.
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Obviously obscene phone calls are shocking when they happen.
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