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Text messaging is not only a workout for your fingers but one of the main ways of communication on your cell phone. Texting allows quick messages to be sent, and these messages get more and more creative with time. Video messages and picture messages can beef up your text, and plenty of other options exist, like adding a text... more »
A "Caller Tune" is a term used to described the audio clip that plays whenever someone calls your cellular telephone. This can be a piece of music you've chosen, a sound effect clip like gunshots or an explosion, or a voice recording of that particular person speaking. Whatever it is, the choice of which caller tune is to be played is... more »
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The flip or clamshell is an electronics form factor which is in two or more sections that fold via a hinge.
When the clamshell is open, the device is ready for use. The interface components are kept inside the clamshell, which offers more surface area than when the device is closed. Interface components such as keys and display are protected when the clamshell is closed, and it is less long or wide, making the device easier to carry around. A disadvantage of the clamshell design is the connecting hinge, which is prone to fatigue or failure.
The clamshell form factor is most closely associated with the mobile phone market, as Motorola used to have a trademark on the term "flip phone",US trademark #2157939, cancelled February 26, 2005 but the term "flip phone" has become genericized to be used more frequently than "Clamshell" in colloquial speech. The design is also used on some landline phones, particularly cordless phones. Other devices using the flip form include laptop computers, subnotebooks, the Game Boy Advance SP and the Nintendo DS, though these are less frequently described as "flip" or "clamshell" compared to cellular phones.
History
The form factor was first used by the laptop manufacturer GRiD (who had the patents on the idea at the time) for their Compass model in 1982.
Clamshell design of phones is generally agreed to have been inspired by the Star Trek original series communicator. A key difference, however, is that the grid that opens on the TOS communicator is solely an antenna, according to The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, while the upper part of the clamshell phone contains much of the functionality of the phone itself (the antenna is either internal or extends from the top of the lower half of the phone).
The first Motorola model to support the clamshell design was the StarTAC, created in 1996, although General Telephone & Electronics (GTE) held the trademark since the 1970s for read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip+(form)
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