One way to counter this might be to borrow from the cellphone model and offer specialized reading devices free or at a discount to people who commit to, say, a one-year subscription.
While its share of the booming, global cellphone market is still twice that of Motorola, its nearest rival, Nokia's status took a big knock in the first six months of the year as competitors including Samsung, the third-largest cellphone maker, made rapid gains with new cellphone models featuring clamshell designs, color screens and cameras.
Several cellphone models, including Apple's iPhone 6 and Samsung's Galaxy S6, use advanced encryption algorithms that scramble all the data on the device when a pin code is set.
Correction: June 11 , 2003 Wednesday The State of the Art column in Circuits on Thursday and its chart, comparing cellphone models for their simplicity, referred erroneously to a feature of the Samsung R225.
EVEN as the latest cellphone models arrive in showcases, a new breed of shopper is scouring online ads and dark corners of stores for a bargain phone with a little mileage on it.
FreeHeadset.org offers headsets compatible with hundreds of cellphone models.
Tests on 36 cellphone models showed that all contained toxic chemicals.
Prices for existing cellphone models are tumbling -- some are available for less than $100 -- which is feeding consumer demand.
G.P.S. is becoming ubiquitous in part because the technology is included in a growing number of cellphone models, Mr. Friedland said.
You can get an idea of the relative amounts of radiation various cellphone models emit by looking at their SAR, or specific absorption rate.
