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A phone made for gas stations
A phone made for gas stations
The i365IS is built with safety in mind. (Credit: Sprint) If you ever bother to read your cell phone's user manual from front to back, you'll see a whole section with neat safety warnings. One of them advises you not to make calls in a gas station since ...
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reuters.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 40 percent of the nation's hundreds of TV stations will be broadcasting completely... in digital signals next week, even after regulators delayed a mandatory nationwide switch to "DTV" by months. The Federal Communications ... (more) Many local TV stations to go ahead with DTV ...
San Francisco Plugs In To the Future with Electric Vehicle Recharging Stations : Gas 2.0
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Motorola i356IS Won't Blow Up Gas Stations, Sadly [Cellphones]
Gizmodo — ... bit of fun left in Motorola handsets. Apart from being rugged against water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, salt, humidity, solar radiation, altitude, and temperature according to military 810F standards, the "Intrinsically Safe" Motorola i356IS is designed to avoid releasing electrical or thermal energy capable of igniting fuel or explosives. The push-to-talk phone can send an emergency tone to 20 other Nextel Direct Connect subscribers. [Mobiledia via CNET] ...

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You know how you aren't supposed to make phone calls while you're filling up your car with fuel? Well, there is a new handset from Motorola, the i356IS ("IS" stands for "intrinsically safe"), that was built with exploding fuel pumps in mind. Sprint Nextel will be carrying this handset which ...