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At what point do "smartphones" become just "phones"?
0. phoneArena 07 May 2012, 20:37 posted on
Earlier today, we learned that smartphones have finally hit the magical point where more than half of all mobile users had a smartphone (in Q1 2012, according to Nielsen.) This begs a crucial question: at what point do "smartphones" simply become "phones"?
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1. alpinejason (Posts: 262; Member since: 06 Sep 2011)
pretty much sums it up!
2. Synack (Posts: 680; Member since: 05 Jul 2011)
My Galaxy Nexus is just a phone. The Galaxy S3 also did not impress me, just like the iPhone4S. Somebody needs to take a giant step out of the box that all of the smartphones are currently in. Everything seems to be the same except for screen sizes.
3. frmrVZguy (Posts: 42; Member since: 10 Mar 2012)
Title this: "SMART is DUMB if it doesn't work dependably."
There's a different point of view about all this 'smartness' that relates to what the device can DO FOR you. I've had the chance to ride the tide of the 'smartphone wave' for the last 7-8 years and the definition of DO has changed from business communication to (that+business documentation tool) to (all that+production tool) and now to (all of that+multimedia device). I use each of those terms very broadly.
A huge change in customer expectation occured as perceived and real affordability came along. Kids saw what mommy and daddy had in their pocket and it was like 'MAGIC' and eyecandy. They played and stayed with it.
BUT, dependability is the ingredient that makes or breaks a concept. We just witnessed Blackberry outages and (Palm, WinMo and Blackberry) device failures (nerver mind what reason) cause the mighty to fall. The so-called smartphone is becoming THAT dependable that the customer EXPECTS 'Utility-grade' dependability and if it ever fails, so does customer trust. SMART is DUMB if it doesn't work dependably. The stories I know from behind the scenes just makes me shake my head in wonder: "How could THEY be so sloppy?"
The big CAN fall merely due to quality and dependability problems that sabotage reputation and desirability. Remember THAT Apple. Who makes your phones and what is THEIR motivation to keep you as the top brand? Hmmmm?
4. wendygarett (unregistered)
Another great article michael :)
im searching whether ther are some thumb up for you :)
32. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Good article, but one concern I had about it was about the pricing. There are no truly "free" phones, just ones that are discounted with a contract and equipment subsidy. The way it's presented now is misleading
40. remixfa (Posts: 14597; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
thats true. it may be free up front but your going to pay an averaged premium on it over the life of the contract...
5. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
personally i think price is a large hurdle smartphones need to overcome... not the phone itself per say, but the price of the service... plenty of people would buy a smartphone, but the extra cost of a data plan is too much and uneeded... but none of the carriers are willing to sell smartphones without a data plan, which limits the amount of people who can access them and who are relegated to feature/regularphones
6. nando2do (Posts: 53; Member since: 10 Nov 2011)
agree on most of it. except when you say that carriers dont want to sell smartphones without data plan, that might happen on the US but not necessary on the rest of the world.
but if you think about it, in basic economics, if the demand keeps growing like right now, the price will be have to be increase. just like iphones, those phones are not made by gold (some of the parts on the chips only) and still have stupid prices like 1,000 per unit if buy it without contract.
next year the phones that right now have 2 cores will be obsolete since the competition keeps pushing the boundaries on expansion of hardware which actually doesnt necessary means its worth it.
the idea of a smart phone was to make your online assets easy and common ones like phone calls and txt easier. right now we find phones with 4 cores, retina display, ultra thin. etc.. stuff that makes people look and think is better just because is thinner, bigger, and good looking.
the thing is, whats next? what would you get on 2014? a 5.6 inch phone, 7 inches thick with super ultra amoled or super retina whatever they come out with. will never know till we get there :D
in the meantime we can still keep playing with our toys
7. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
well the US is the only place i am familiar with, but i understand the rest of the world functions without contracts.. i think u mean 7 millimeters btw..
the carriers complain about subsidizing costs of smartphones.. but i dont see any of them giving up the model and moving toward one where people are not locked into data contracts-- except for sort-of tmbile.. but its not really much of a change..
8. potatosalad (Posts: 40; Member since: 07 May 2012)
..is when you can have free internet on your mobile. and i'm speaking zero balance of your credit. (plan subscription not included)
9. ilia1986 (unregistered)
I think that there needs to be a clear distiction here, Michael.
Smartphones used to be defined as a phone on which one can install 3rd party apps which bring additional functionality. These days there are still smart and "dumb" phones as you described, however this is indeed changing wildly - but in a different way.
I think that the distincion in the future will be between smart phones - and super smart phones. Or "dumb" phones and smart phones. Let me explain.
IMO, in the future, a smartphone will be considered a device which would be truly smart - capable of performing actions beyond the range of other phones not because it has necessarily better hardware or a different form factor, but because of the phylosophy driving the nature of it's OS.
A phone that allows you for example to take a picture of an icon of a file on your PC via it's monitor, and which then proceeds to automatically connect with said PC over Wifi, and download the file to your device. A phone which can be set to ring the alarm at a certain rate, and detect that if it is not picked up, put a status on every social network telling everyone how lazy you are. A phone which can truly do everything because of the open nature of it's OS, and the freedom given to both developers who write apps for it, and the user who ends up using it. A phone customizable in every way which is possible, as needed. I am talking of course about phones running Open Source OSs - Android and (hopefully in the future) WebOS
On the other hand, there are other types of phones - which in my opinion are "dumb" phones. Sure, they may be considered smartphones right now, but as you said - Times - they are a'-changin. These phones contrary to those mentioned earlier, provide the end user with a 95% fixed user experience. In order to get a different experience out of their phone, a user needs to download a 3rd party app, simply because he\she cannot change almost anything on the device otherwise. These apps also are very restrictive in their nature, and cannot interface or change directly various aspects of the phone itself. These phones have a closed OS. What you see is what you get. A good exapmple would be of course phones running iOS and Windows Phone 7, but there is also RIM with it's BB platform. In my opinion, these phones are very very similar to "dumb" phones nowdays, if we were to take dumb phones, give them a touch-screen and add a proprietary application store for them.
So, to conclude, I believe that the future distinction will be between "dumb" phones which only give the end user a fixed user experience, and only provide 3rd party apps in order to enhance it in very fixed ways, and between smartphones which are capable of literally anything a person can think of and the hardware can perform, and give the end user almost unlimited choice and have virtually unlimited potential.
So in short - IMO, the times are changing - but the distinction will stay pretty much the same.
11. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2707; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Sorry, but I can't agree with any of that. You've got yourself a great start to an Android/Open source religion, but that's about it. Your definition of "smartphone" is way too exclusive for my tastes.
13. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Why is it exclusive, Michael? Isn't a smartphone a phone which can do more - much more - than the regular dumbphones?
And Android\Open source is not a religion. It's more of a philosophy. Religion requires donations\cash to exist. Android does not. :)
What is your definition of a smartphone, Michael?
14. bizwhizzy (Posts: 51; Member since: 04 Aug 2011)
15. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2707; Member since: 26 May 2011)
It's exclusive because it is defining something not just on potential, but the potential to provide functionality that 99% of users will never use or care about. If you're going to define like that, you quickly get into some murky water.
So, an old G1 would be considered a "smartphone" just because it's running Android, but a Windows 8 phone or the iPhone 5 wouldn't because of the platform? That's absurd.
Just because something is "closed" rather than "open" doesn't mean that there aren't APIs to allow 3rd party devs to extend the functionality of the system past what the base platform offers.
I don't think "smartphone" is something that can have a static definition. Just like you can't have a static definition for "computer". Static definitions don't work well in tech, because everything evolves too fast. The loose definition you give is good enough for me. A smartphone is a phone which can do much more than a dumbphone. That gives a loose definition on both ends which can evolve over time.
That said, iOS, WP7, BB, webOS, Symbian, bada, and Android are all smartphones (some smarter than others in various ways).
19. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Well that's some yet-to-be-proven statistics you got there, Michael. I believe - as evidenced by countless YouTube videos, articles, and number of tweaks\apps\launchers\etc in Google Play - that there are a whole lot of things which are widely used by a lot of people - and these things provide functionality which people do care about - a lot of people - not just 1%.
And yes - potentially a G1 would be smarter when compared to an iPhone 5 or WP8. Just like the original Droid for example would be smarter than a Nokia S40 phone with a 1Ghz processor, despite having inferior specs.
"Just because something is "closed" rather than "open" doesn't mean that there aren't APIs to allow 3rd party devs to extend the functionality of the system past what the base platform offers. "
I am sorry but this is wrong. A closed platform wouldn't allow a developer to change it's core aspects, or interface with them in any matter. Apps for the iPhone can only interface with the hardware components - not with the software one. That's why you can use a different web browser - but when you open a link in your mail app - Safari opens no matter what. And that's just one example out of many.
And yes, the world is evolving - and as I said - IMO in the future there will be smartphones and there will be no-so-smart phones, aka dumbphones. Yes, as you said, all those aforementioned platforms are considered smart today, but remember than backn in the 1990's, having access to your mail via GPRS was considered the pinnacle of technology, where today almost any phone can do that. Times - they are a'-changin :)
20. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2707; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Open source doesn't mean unlimited access. There are limits on Android developer access just like any other platform. There are plenty of things you can't do without root access, which is no different than rooting WP or jailbreaking iOS. As I said, you can't define based on potential. The potential for Android is greater just because the source is open, but the functionality borne from that potential is only open to the very low percentage that roots their devices. You can only define for the base user.
21. biophone (Posts: 1994; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Illia i also seem to find in your post you overestimate the importance of an open system. An open system is a matter a prefence some people would like a close system that has really world funcationality displayed in a intuivtive way. Really all a smartphone is, is a category of phones that have more capablebilties then standard phones. It just so carriers can seperate their premium phones from basic ones so they can distinguish which phones you must pay for data to have.
22. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Yes, and this is why I was talking about the future. I believe that in the future every Android phone will be rooted, or at least the user can enable SU privilieges via the settings menu. Already we can see some companies openly providing tools to unlock the bootloaders of their devices. Besides - again - given the amount of custom ROMs and tweaks which require user access, I would argue that that the percentage of users who do root their device isn't nearly as low as you might think.
A produce can be defined based on potential, just like you'd rather buy a car which potentially could go 1000 miles on a single gallon of gas (for this example's sake) than a car which can only go for 30 miles on a single gallon. Given of course that both cars are evenly priced. Potential does matter. A lot.
As for this "base user" - he\she too is changing. People are becoming more and more aware of what smartphones do. That in turn will cause those of them who are curious by nature to explore, research and discover new things they can do with their phone, and if they ever find out that their phone can't do all these cool things that their friend's phone can because the company which made it decided that it should control the user experience, and not them, may God help that company once the number of such people grows large enough.
23. ilia1986 (unregistered)
You are implying that open source OSs are not intuitive to use, while closed source, are.
That's not necessarily so.
24. biophone (Posts: 1994; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Closed source os don't have as much customizability making them simplier and easier which makes it more intuivite for a first time smartphone user.
25. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Again, this is a generalization. Just because a system is open - doesn't mean it's harder to use. Yes you can do more with it, which means that you need to play with it for a bit to suit things for you, but that's the entire beauty of it.
What would you prefer? to live in a house in which everything was set up, but you couldn't change anything or even move the furniture, or to design your house\apartment together with a professional designer and plan where everything goes, and have the ability to chage or replace it if need be?
Control is good. It doesn't automatically mean that it gets harder to use.
26. biophone (Posts: 1994; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
If the house is already nicely made its just easier that way. Some prefer it
27. ilia1986 (unregistered)
But what happens if you don't like the way it's set up? What if it bores you after awhile? And assuming that most furniture is free.. What then? You're stuck with it! Until you buy a new house of course.
33. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2707; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Aha, so your definition of smartphone doesn't actually cover any existing "smartphones". According to your definition, everyone is buying a dumbphone, and those that choose to root are then converting their devices into smartphones. How is that not exclusionary?
Whether it gets 30MPG or 1000MPG, it's still called a car is it not?
Increased awareness of potential has very little bearing on choice with many consumers, because as I pointed out in the article, many people are simply too lazy or too disinterested to learn or take advantage of what smartphones can do. There are plenty of people who buy an Android, but never really install more than a few apps. Yes, the base user is changing, but not nearly as much as you think.
All of this leads right back to my point. You are not only setting a static definition, but one that may never come to pass (all phones rooted? really?), and one that doesn't even cover any current smartphones. As I said originally, that is far far too exclusionary for me.
Just because you have an idea of what the perfect smartphone would be for you, doesn't mean that everyone agrees, or even wants that idea to be true. That is exclusionary. Just because someone wants a touchscreen and a few apps, but doesn't want or care about advanced features doesn't mean they aren't buying a smartphone, it just means they aren't using it to its fullest potential, but it's still a smartphone.
According to your definition, only Linux boxes would be considered computers, not Windows or Mac. So, even a Chromebook, which is a Linux box that only runs a browser would be considered more of a computer than any Windows PC. That's the danger of defining on potential and philosophy.
35. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2707; Member since: 26 May 2011)
luckily devices are far less expensive and can be resold pretty easily. so, if you find you don't like it, just sell it and buy something new.
however, if you do like it, then you've got a sweet house at a fraction of the effort!
41. gallitoking (Posts: 4721; Member since: 17 May 2011)
illia some people rent because either they cant afford a house or because they don't have to worry about anything... something breaks... call the landlord and is fixed,.,, some would prefer to buy a house and be in charged of everything.. same with smart phones,. some people just want to be able to place calls send a few texts... and occasionally use the internet.. just because you have different needs doesn't mean that everyone else will follow..
44. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Well first of all we are all aware than even an unrooted Android phone can do much much much more than the most advanced iPhone will ever be able to.
But yes - essentially I see a smartphone - in the future - as a rooted Android\Open source phone. Sorry. That's just how I see it - because it's capable of virtually anything. It's a bit extreme, I know - but this is how I envision the industry in 10+ years - Smartphones which give the end user almost complete control over the device, and not-so-smart-phones which provide the user with a fixed user experience. If we compare it to the pre-iPhone era - this distinction is about right as well. There were dumb phones which couldn't do anything more than what they already did, and gave the end user very little if any control over the device, and there were the Nokia\Blackberry\WinMo smartphones which gave the user a whole lot more control over the device.
As for the root thing - as I said - a LOT of people are rooting their Android phones. There wouldn't be as many custom roms, tweaks and apps which require rooting if that wasn't true.
So yes - a car is still a car - just like a phone is still a phone is still a phone. But there is a clear and distinct difference in potential.
"Increased awareness of potential has very little bearing on choice with many consumers, because as I pointed out in the article, many people are simply too lazy or too disinterested to learn or take advantage of what smartphones can do."
True. For now. But remember the late 90's. Windows 95 launch. People bought it just out of hype, not even sure what to do with that. People bought it even though they didn't have a PC! Fast forward 2012. Show me a person who is willing to buy PC software just out of hype without being aware of it's core features and benefits, and I will show you a man who is either very rich, or loves gambling.
This is what is going to happen in the mobile market as well. It's already starting to happen. People are becoming more and more aware than the smartphone is a PC - and they don't wanna get stuck with a PC which can't do things while another PC which costs the same and exists in the same time - can.
Again, a "smartphone" is really definition dependent. We just happen to define it differently, I guess.
Btw - Linux IS superior to anything else. The problem with it is lack of support from large companies. If linux had the amount of support Android does today - I assure you that the desktop market would have looked drastically different by now.
But hell, at least Microsoft has the fracking basic decency to provide the user access to it's file system.
45. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Not in Israel, Michael. And I'm pretty sure that this applies to other parts of the world as well. Selling a used cellphone here is almost as hard as selling a used car - you really gotta cut the price down, or people won't buy. It's not like you can change phones like gloves, or something.
As for the house - yes - if you happen to like it - and happen to like it for the entire duration you use it - which in cellphone terms is 1.5 - 2 years (!), then you are in luck. You've just saved yourself at most 5(!) minutes of customization which would otherwise be spent on tweaking, adjusting and tuning the "furniture". Congratulations.
46. ilia1986 (unregistered)
"some people just want to be able to place calls send a few texts... and occasionally use the internet"
That's fine. But there is a device capable of doing so much more - at the same (or even lower) price. Why not buy that instead? Who knows what needs will these people develop over time? A bit of foreseeing here, please.


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Current interest in nanoscale systems and molecular dynamical simulations has focussed attention on the extent to which continuum concepts and relations may be utilised meaningfully at small length scales. In particular, the notion of the Cauchy stress tensor has been examined from a number of perspectives. These include motivation from a virial-based argument, and from scale-dependent localisation procedures involving the use of weighting functions. Here different definitions and derivations of the stress tensor in terms of atoms/molecules, modelled as interacting point masses, are compared. The aim is to elucidate assumptions inherent in different approaches, and to clarify associated physical interpretations of stress. Following a critical analysis and extension of the virial approach, a method of spatial atomistic averaging (at any prescribed length scale) is presented and a balance of linear momentum is derived. The contribution of corpuscular interactions is represented by a force density field f. The balance relation reduces to standard form when f is expressed as the divergence of an interaction stress tensor field, T−. The manner in which T− can be defined is studied, since T− is unique only to within a divergence-free field. Three distinct possibilities are discussed and critically compared. An approach to nanoscale systems is suggested in which f is employed directly, so obviating separate modelling of interfacial and edge effects.


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#1 Jun 9, 2009
Met Ed is just another rip. They know folks need electricity and they feel they can price gouge thinking most people will pay. If not, it's no skin off their back. They just cut your service. We cut back our usage and the bill still climbs. We went away for 2 weeks. Everything in the house was turned off. Our bill went up.We got no satisfaction when we called Met Ed.
#2 Jun 9, 2009
Hey all you Gettysburg school district homeowners if you add the 4.1 school tax increase with the Met-Ed increase you all just woke up to about 175 dollars more a year you have to come up with. Right in the middle of a huge Government caused recession. Remember that if you vote and if you don't vote start to.
#3 Jun 9, 2009
Unfortunately thats the way it is. As their cost goes up so does ours. When they get charged more per kwh they need to pass that along to us or else take the hit. It sucks but what are you going to do?
#4 Jun 9, 2009
If you think Med Ed is a rip.. move down to Maryland, and pay BG&E rates. You'll consider Met Ed a bargain!
#5 Jun 9, 2009
I'm a transplant from Maryland - JLB is not kidding about the BGE bills. I'm thankful I have Met-Ed. If you've heard about Met-Ed's offer when electricity is de-regulated in 2011? You pay 10% more now - they put it in an account for you and you get 7.5%
INTEREST!! You won't find any financial institution that's giving 7.5% interest AND if you change your mind and drop out of it - you get your $$ back WITH THE 7.5% INTEREST!!!!! You would be a fool NOT to do this!!! What a deal!!!!!!!!!!
#6 Jun 9, 2009
well if everyone would use it like we used gas when it went up. then maybe we would have some leverage. And btw just turning things off does save you electricity. i was watching a show the other week about electricty vampires. just beacuse something is turned off does not mean it doesnt use electricty. there was a woman that had a 150 plus a month phone bill she implemented an unplug rule in her house her bill went from 150 plus a months to like 30 dollars...it was amazing. so unplug when not in use and see what your bill is then. when those caps come off i will be using oil lanterns.lol
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i know when i unplug my phone....
#8 Jun 9, 2009
It does sound like a good deal, but I also heard that they're doing this to get a feel for how much people really can afford when they can pay that extra 10% now. They'll be sure to raise the rates at least that much later on. They will not get any extra money from me even if I had it.
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As electric prices increase and solar/wind technologies become cheaper to purchase, the delta between expense and payback gets smaller and more attractive.
If you have the funds and want to hedge against future power price spikes, consider going "green." In states that allow net metering, not only do you cover your own power needs, you also have the right to run your meter backward as you route excess power production from your home to the grid.
#10 Jun 9, 2009
and there are govt grants and tax right offs to help do it and for doing it....
#11 Jun 9, 2009
give that hike to the home builders!!!!!!!!! we don't want no more stinkin' new homes!
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#12 Jun 9, 2009
Oh boy more money to pay out that I don't have
the REAL action
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where is mccherrytowm???????
#14 Jun 9, 2009
We are on the busget program and the last time i checked we had a credit of $75.00 but im sure that will change, they will find a way to suck it out of us they always do.
If us little people didnt pay these big companies would not be where they are today!!!!!!
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#15 Jun 10, 2009
Higher electric rates suck, that's for sure, and it's certain they're going to go up for many different reasons. Insurances, fuel costs, construction costs, benefits, wages, purchased power costs, materials and supplies, TAXES, all going up. Some of PJM's tariffs continue to rise, as evidenced by this recent ME rate increase.
Big Electric doesn't get rich off of Ma and Pa turning on a 15 watt fluorescent lamp or watching their TV. Sure, high or low temperature resistive loads drive up a residential bill according to A/C or electric heating usage, but Big Electric makes their big money from commercial and industrial customers.
If you don't think that's an accurate statement, go research why rural electric cooperatives came to be... there wasn't enough financial return to run lines to distant farms that would use very little power!
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#16 Jun 10, 2009
Already checked on it, and a full solar panel system for my home would cost $18,000. Even after the $3,000 tax credit, I would not recoup my investment for at least 15 years. No thanks. I need a break right now!
#17 Jun 10, 2009
The magic of the American Monopoly,,,
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#18 Jun 10, 2009
That sounds like a fair and average estimate. Understood, still out of reach for most of us.
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#19 Jun 10, 2009
That's the odd thing... many of the current pricing issues with electricity is the direct result of the elimination of monopolized service territories, the deregulation of power generation, and the re-regulation of transmission services.
Some things are better left monopolized. Electricity is one of them. Too late now.
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Or, better left regulated.
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Neither of us moved for a very long moment, and I had begun to worry that I had missed the mark. Then Pailadyn finally nodded.
Oh dear… this was… bad. I couldn't get attached to anyone here. Especially if I planned to leave. And… this was rather sudden… I had been here for just over a month. That wasn't a lot of time.
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Lovisa strives to be at the forefront of the fast fashion retail industry and pursuant to this mission, has developed a model that ensures trends are quickly identified and its target customers (being fashion conscious females aged 25-45) are provided with a broad, quality product range.
Lovisa has developed a vertically integrated business model, through which it develops, designs, sources and merchandises 100% of its Lovisa branded products.
Lovisa was founded by its CEO and Managing Director, Shane Fallscheer, and BB Retail Capital, an investment company established by successful retail entrepreneur Brett Blundy. It opened its first store in Chermside, Queensland in April 2010 and soon after began its international expansion with the opening of its first store in New Zealand (June 2010). On the anniversary of its first year of operations, Lovisa opened its 51st store. It entered South Africa in December 2011 Asia in July 2012 opening stores in Singapore and Malaysia and the United Kingdom in December 2015. The company began its expansion into the United Arab Emirates in November 2013 and opened its first stores in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in June and July 2014 respectively.


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The sound quality is great, and the wireless signal is pretty good, maybe its my house, but I can make breakfast while listening to music. Software setup is pretty easy but I rarely mess with it. I play BF4 and WoW and its awesome.
The arm that connects the ear piece to the head piece tends to break through the small area where they put a screw to tighten in place. Its broken once before and Corsair sent me a replacement. Its broken again in the same exact place again. I like nice stuff, and I'm extra careful with my nice stuff, but seriously this is the 2nd time in a little over a year now. Its not good enough for me to recommend to someone.
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I'm going to resubmit another RGA for them, if they send me a replacement or something better then I will rescind this review, but otherwise save your money.
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Here's a list of films that will be screening with Flicks in the Sticks over the coming months.
If you haven't been to one of our screenings before please give us a try, especially if you fancy a different type of experience from the multiplex cinemas (Cineworld for example).
Below you can search for screenings in different ways by changing the method of 'SORT BY' to either FILM title, DATE or VENUE.
There are venue details available (click on the venue name) giving you an idea of where the venue is and how accessible it is. We hope to see you soon.
The true story of Desmond Doss, the conscientious objector who, at the Battle of Okinawa, won the Medal of Honor for his incredible bravery and regard for his fellow soldiers. We see his upbringing and how this shaped his views, especially his religious view and anti-killing stance. We see Doss's trials and tribulations after enlisting in the US Army and trying to become a medic. Finally, we see the hell on Earth that was Hacksaw Ridge.
Texas brothers, Toby and Tanner, come together after years divided to rob branches of the bank threatening to foreclose on their family land. For them, the hold-ups are just part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that seemed to have been stolen from under them. Vengeance seems to be theirs, until they find themselves on the radar of Texas Ranger, Marcus, looking for one last grand pursuit on the eve of his retirement, and his half-Comanche partner, Alberto. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their scheme, and with the Rangers on their heels, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the values of the Old and New West murderously collide.
Two rebels. One million hectares of untamed wilderness. The hunt is on. Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive in this hilarious and heartfelt adventure.


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"What are you going to do if I don't?" says the officer.
"I won't do anything. Eighty-six! Let's go!" I shout.
The back seat door behind him flies off it's hinge and slides through the parking lot. Sine runs out of the front door and yells "Get in the car! Get in the damn car!" I keep the gun pointed at the officer in the sedan at the gas pump and walk backwards as Grant, Sine, and Eighty-six jump in. The man from inside the store comes out covered in orange slushy and his clothes were ripped up.
"What the hell you do to him?" Grant asks.
"I slowed him down, didn't I?" Sine said. "Hurry, Karber!"
"All right! Keep your heads down!" I jump in and we can hear gunshots from the two men. The back window gets shot three times, the let rearview mirror was hit. I speed out into the road and make my way down a few blocks before I see the black sedan following us.
"Sine, Grant, aim for the tires!" I yell.
"We'll try!" Sine puts on his seatbelt and leans out the door and starts firing.
"Take them out, they know who we are!" I shout.
"What!?" Sine shouts as he's shooting. He leans back in and hunkers down to reload his gun.
"Oh, fuck!" As I'm speeding down the street, an intersection comes up fast with a red light. A big rig is coming through making a left turn into the lane beside us from the right, blocking our path. I lay on the horn for pedestrians to get out of the way and I drive up onto the sidewalk about five feet before sliding into the trailer on the back of the rig.
"Hot damn, Karber! Yee-haw!!" Grant shouts.
"Grant, shut up and do something, would ya!?" Sine shouts before he pops his head back out the passenger side door.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch this!" Grant takes his gun and shoots through the back window and blows out the front left tire on the driver's side and they swerve into that direction.
"Good shit!" I say.
"Ugh, thank god. Good shot," Sine says.
"Hell yeah, buddy. That's how I do it. I'm the best shot on the east coast, bitches!" Grant says and kisses his pistol.
"I'll let you gloat and get away with it this time. You saved our asses," I tell Grant.
Suddenly, the police scanner in the SUV goes off.
"Turn that up, Sine," Grant says.
"Four suspects heading south bound on Washington. Just took out two officers in a private vehicle. All available units please respond. I repeat, all available units please respond!"
"Fuck..." Sine says under his breath.
"We're so screwed," I say.
"It's all your stupid-ass faults!! I told you we shouldn't have meddled!!" Grant yells and starts punching the back of Sine's seat.
"I'm sorry," number Eighty-Six says. "I asked way too much of you."
"Damn straight, ya did! We're never gonna get out of jail, now! We were under contract to finish out our time and now we can kiss all that goodbye! All just because you fucks had bleeding hearts or hard ons or some shit for this fuck head beside me!!"
"Grant, he never would have came with us if we didn't help him! You saw what he did to those hand-cuffs! You shot him and he didn't even complain! He could have killed us all if he


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Definition of association
1a : the act of associatingb : the state of being associated : combination, relationship had a long association with the firm
2 : an organization of persons having a common interest : society an alumni association
3 : something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person His former school has only negative associations for him.
4 : the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories
5 : the aggregation of chemical species (see 1species 1e) to form (as with hydrogen bonds) loosely bound complexes (see 1complex 3)
6 : a major unit in ecological community organization characterized by essential uniformity and usually by two or more dominant species
associationalplay \-sh(ə-)nəl\ adjective
Examples of association in a Sentence
an association of local business leaders
They denied having any association with terrorists.
They have a long association with the school and have donated millions of dollars to it.
Origin and Etymology of association
see 1associate
First Known Use: 1535
ASSOCIATION Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of association for English Language Learners
: an organized group of people who have the same interest, job, etc.
: a connection or relationship between things or people
: a feeling, memory, or thought that is connected to a person, place, or thing
ASSOCIATION Defined for Kids
Definition of association for Students
1 : a connection or relationship between things or people She studied the association between sugar intake and cavity formation.
2 : an organization of persons having a common interest an athletic association
3 : a feeling, memory, or thought connected with a person, place, or thing His grandparents' old house had happy associations for him.
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of association
1: the act of associating
2: something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person
3: the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories
4: the aggregation of chemical species to form (as with hydrogen bonds) loosely bound chemical complexes—compare polymerization 1
associational\-shnəl, -shən-əl\play adjective
Law Dictionary
Legal Definition of association
1 : a group of persons who share common interests or a common purpose and who are organized with varying degrees of formality — compare corporation
2 : the act of having contact or communication with or keeping company with another freedom of association
3 : the sharing (as by an aider and abettor) in the criminal intent of a person who commits a crime
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Doug Clark: This highway sponsored by nutty lawmakers
Thu., Jan. 24, 2013, midnight
File under hogs soar, Bigfoot lassoed and hell ices over:
A great notion is up for rumination in the Washington Legislature.
House Bill 1051 would make it OK to sell the naming rights of bridges, highways, viewpoints, etc., to help fund the upkeep of state roadways.
I can see it now.
Take that rest stop on the road to Ritzville.
For the right amount it could be renamed after a local industry like, say, one of our massage parlors.
All that nasty business from last summer's police raid would have to get worked out first, of course.
Once this happens, however, weary drivers would find the "Asian Spa Relaxation Spot" a soothing oasis for a pit stop or cup of joe.
Not to mention that such a name would be in keeping with some of the other activities that have been known to happen at highway rest stops.
I need to come clean before going any further.
There was a time when I raged against the idea of whoring out the names of our public landmarks to corporate concerns.
To be specific, I grumbled and groused plenty over the deal that turned my hometown's professional baseball venue into Avista Stadium, an advertisement for the power company.
I likewise moaned like a scalded gibbon when the hallowed Spokane Opera House became that "Performing Arts Center" brought to you by, um, some bank whose initials that I can never remember.
Is it DOA?
Anyway, the point is that I was a younger, more idealistic columnist in those days.
I believed in fairy tales like Lance Armstrong not being a cheater or hair restoration products actually working or ordering a footlong at Subway and actually getting something that was 12 inches long.
How naïve can you get?
Now I'm older and balder and have accepted that nothing is sacred and everything's for sale.
The name-change game has hit stadiums, fairgrounds and concert venues.
The Nike swoosh rules all sports.
Selling out is a sacred tradition in government, too. Historians note that whenever George Washington smiled you could see the Polident trademark on his wooden teeth.
With the economy as trashed as it is, House Bill 1051 just makes good fiscal sense.
The bill isn't perfect, mind you.
Its language forbids "religious, political, discriminatory or X-rated content," which seems like a real waste of opportunities to me.
But while "marijuana and tobacco sponsors" are banned, booze merchants are OK, which means the Palouse Highway could become the Anheuser-Busch Cougway.
That would not only be lucrative, but apt.
Hooters' Steptoe Butte also has a nice voluptuous ring to it.
I have to thank readers Brett and Norsat Whipple for making me aware of House Bill 1051, which was filed last week.
The Whipples have also done some quality thinking about this.
Spokane businesses, they suggested, could sponsor a pothole repair program where a fixed pothole could be embossed with a logo much the way lilacs get painted on the streets during festival time.
This could also be the way to pump funds into our cash-strapped public libraries.
Sponsors could get their names and corporate trademarks plastered all over the outside of our branches for all I care.
But why stop there?
Branding rights could even be sold for sections within the library.
"Fiction, sponsored by the Spokane Police Guild."
I sure hope this House Bill 1051 goes somewhere.
(Today's message is brought to you by The Nut Factory, as always.)


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90 Cubic Inches Per Minute in Titanium
Mag says its XTi super profiler is designed to remove metal at impressive rates. Its first two machines are are being used for aerospace applications.
Machine tool builder Mag says this is what 90 cubic inches per minute in titanium looks like. The company's XTi "super profiler" demonstrated that metal removal rate before being shipped to Aerospace Dynamics International of Valencia, California. ADI got two of these machines, which will share a 120-foot X-axis rail for multi-part production of titanium components for the Boeing 777 and 787, and Airbus A350.
Chip Storie, Mag executive vice president, says the XTi is engineered and built for maximum dynamic stiffness and sustained power in titanium roughing. The profiler uses five spindle motors rated 51 kW, producing 2523 N-m of torque. The spindle support structure is incorporated into a heavyweight gantry designed for superior damping. "ADI's goal was to set a new standard for producing titanium parts at the lowest cost per piece," he says.
ADI president and CEO John Cave says the company typically roughs titanium 6-4 at radial depth of 0.38 inch and axial depth of 1.5 to 2.5 inches. The company had Mag mill an angular channel in titanium with 4.0-inch axial depth and a 1.5-inch radial depth. Impressed with the ease of these cuts, he says, "The machine peeled off perfect '6-shaped' chips with no chatter or sign of structural instability."


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New Delhi, May 12: Kerala's hill-station Munnar has been ranked as the second best tourist destination in Asia, according to the TripAdvisor"s 2010 Traveler"s Choice Destination awards.
In TripAdvisor"s 2010 Traveler"s Choice Destination awards, Tokyo emerged on top, followed by Munnar in the second spot and Siem Reap in third spot.
"Millions of travelers rely on TripAdvisor for travel inspiration. So we are thrilled and humbled that Munnar has been honored by travelers this year," said Dr Venu, Secretary, Kerala Tourism.
"The TripAdvisor Travelers" Choice Awards are particularly meaningful, as they are determined by real travelers," he added.
The winners were determined by a combination of travelers' destination comments, favorite places, and overall destination popularity on TripAdvisor.
OneIndia Travel: Munnar, Kerala
Besides attracting honeymooners, Munnar's tea plantations and serene hills ( Watch Video ) provides a great space for many to escape the city and to indulge in activities such as paragliding, trekking and rock climbing.
For nature lovers, Eravikulam National Park offers to give a glimpse of the endangered Nilgiri Tahr (ibex) along with other wildlife including ruddy mongoose and 120 bird species.
Being featured on the list alongside globally renowned places gives a huge boost to Munnar's image as a tourist destination.
Eight other Indian destinations also made it to the top 25 Asian destination choice list, including:
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (6)
- Manali (7)
- Hampi (8)
- Goa (9)
- Udaipur (12)
- Gangtok (19)
- Bangalore (20)
- Dharamsala (22)
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Mercy Doty was *very* close (if you get my drift) with Laura and Mary.They corresponded in 1912, when Mercy lived in either White Cloud or Belding and was not yet married, and Laura and Mary sent Mercy postcards depicting "Lovers Lane" in Grand Rapids, and encouraging her to join them there.
Laura and Mary, a couple, wanted Mercy to accept them into her household.They communicated in code (i.e. I saw by the eagle that you are at home...)
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The taverna which specializes in fish is located at the southern part of the beach. It is 15 minute walk from the bus stop on the beach road. Sea bass was good as well as desserts (yogurt with honey and lemon sorbet). Not cheap.
First time here in two visits to Ag. Georgios. The setting is superb,right on the water edge with fantastic views across the bay as the sun sets over the headland. It's a walk along a stony track to get here - accessible by car if you're very careful. (note the Fisherman's Cabin which is another fish taverna, is much further...
One of our lasting memories of Agios Georgios was the night spent having a wonderful meal at this restaurant. The distance to get to there took about 40 mins walking but after the meal Costas offered to drive us back to our hotel but it was such a lovely evening and after a superb meal we declined the offer and...
We stayed nearby in Marbella hotel and were very happy to discover this cosy beach restaurant. We had our lunch there nearly every day (together with our 8 months old baby) and have never been disappointed, both food and the service were excellent. A great authentic alternative to the standardized hotel board!
We visited this fish tavern twice during our stay in Corfu. We got a really warm welcome on both visits. We were shown really fresh fish and were offered a variety of ways for it to be cooked. We decided on Scorpion Fish Bourdetto - excellent. My cousin had lobest pasta - also excellent. On our second visit my husband...
This is a terrific restaurant from the point of view of food and location. It is situated right by the water over looking the whole bay of Agios Georgias. The view is perfect especially in the evening to watch the sun go down over the hills in the distance. The tables are perched above the water making it a perfect...
We went to lunch here on recommendation of a local friend when he learned that we were going to rent a small boat to motor up and down the coast between Sidari and Paleokastritsa on Corfu. He told us to look for the taverna right on the water with the blue awnings, set off by itself on the far south...
This place has an amazing view and it is well worth the drive/walk up the dirt track. We had the mixed fish for 2, which was delicious. Probably the best fish we had in Greece. Service was also excellent. We'd recommend this place.
Outstanding service, with delicious food that competes with the view from any table. Service efficient without being rushed by the three generations of staff. The extra bonus of being run back to town was an excellent example of the seriousness the family take their hospitality.
Would return again and again, you certainly get what you pay for here! The quantity...
Very nice location by the sea, tasty food, but the restaurant's biggest asset are the staff. Lovely, smiling, efficient. Free wifi and high-chairs available, to our relief, as without these two essentials you can't keep a toddler and a preschooler at the table for more than 5 minutes.
A bit on the pricey side though!
I would definitely visit it...
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