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Mobile Phone

Feature phones and basic mobile phones tend to use a proprietary, custom-designed software and user interface. By contrast, smartphones generally use a mobile operating system that often shares common traits across devices. Some audio-quality enhancing features, such as Voice over LTE and HD Voice, have appeared and are often available on newer smartphones. Sound quality can remain a problem due to the design of the phone, the quality of the cellular network and compression algorithms used in long-distance calls. Android 12 Is On Its Way Many of the wireless devices use a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery, which charges 500–2500 times, depending on how users take care of the battery and the charging techniques used. It is only natural for these rechargeable batteries to chemically age, which is why the performance of the battery when used for a year or two will begin to deteriorate. Battery life can be extended by draining it regularly, not overcharging it, and keeping it away from hea...

5 Lessons From Digital Currency

Fair and constructive financial institutions acting as intermediaries are the safeguards of these principles. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on March 9 ordering the US Treasury Department, the Commerce Department and other key agencies to prepare reports on "the future of money" with a view to perhaps creating a digital dollar. As part of the test project, J$230 million (€1.28 million) worth of digital currency was minted. Policies Arround The Cbdc We review the concepts and features of both central bank and private sector money and focus on them in selected advanced and emerging economies. As a newly emerged form of private sector money, digital coins such as bitcoin have garnered much attention because their underlying distributed ledger technology enables decentralized verification while maintaining features similar to cash. Some central banks have expressed unease about digital coins because of their high volatility. Thus, it is likely to take time befo...