It is a hassle to have your mobile phone stolen.  Carry your phone in a safe place and not in clear view for opportunist thiefs. 

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Meet the creator Martin Cooper and his brainchild, the mobile phone.  The first handset was created with the help of the Motorola team in 1973. 

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Meet the family of five from the Nokia N8.  However, judging by Nokia's past performance with previous handsets, I would not place the family of five as the definitive number for the Nokia N8. 

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A patent agreement exists between Microsoft and HTC described as "… long-standing business relationship with Microsoft".  The idea is this could be seen as a veiled threat to other handset manufacturers of the possibility of a sue by Microsoft for patent infringement – if they do not have a similar agreement in place.

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Google's Android partnership is proving a strain as one manufacturer after another chooses alternatives to Google.  Samsung Electronics Co has opted to use an alternative operating system with HTC Corp likely to follow in its footsteps.  Motorola Inc has a non-Google version mapping software and Verizon Wireless closed plans on the addition of Google Nexus on its network carrier.  The new consensus appears as machinations to loosen Google's stranglehold over the Industry.

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The mobile phone boom has arrived in Cuba following the legalisation by the communist government.  However, with the high cost of calls, phones are used as pagers. 

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Nokia today announced  its imaging smartphone the N8.  The N8 brings back the welcome Xenon flash long awaited by many in the industry and ups the pixel rate to 12 megapixel. 

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Professor Lawrie Challis, states children are not 'little adults' .  He goes on to say there is no evidence of increased radiation to children but makes us aware of the possibility. 

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Combining style with substance effortlessly.  The set comprises the Nokia E72, from Nokia's Business E-series, a white Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-216, white Nokia StereoHeadset WH-205, white pouch, white strap and phone jewellery.  The phone is only released in Malaysia but the same was true of the topaz/brown which I own also from Malaysia.

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