Sentence examples for phone useless from inspiring English sources

Once the phone is stolen, this feature is activated, rendering the phone useless, like a brick.

Some police officers have called for a feature like this — a "remote kill switch" that renders the stolen phone useless and difficult to sell in the black market.

Apple has tried to thwart the practice by updating the operating system software, which rendered any updated and unlocked phone useless.

Current EV-DO network limitations prevent you from even being notified of incoming calls while the tunes are streamed, making your phone useless as, you know, a phone.

He introduced the bill after a snowstorm knocked out power at towers near his home, leaving his cell phone useless.

On the other hand, it contributes to an economic system that skirts ethical lines via oppressive labor practices abroad, sourcing of conflict minerals that may or may not include child slavery, and planned obsolescence that like clockwork makes the phone useless after a couple of years.

Some people have gone further: they have equipped their buildings with radio jammers that render cell phones useless.

Re "Coalition Will Seek to Curb the Theft of Smartphones" (Business Day, June 14), about efforts to make stolen phones useless: People today are careless and easy targets when they carry electronic devices costing hundreds or thousands of dollars.

He also claims he can solve the power problem that rendered Iridium phones useless inside buildings.

He also claims that he can solve the power problem that rendered Iridium phones useless inside buildings.

Another problem Qualcomm faces is that Asian customers traveling through Europe are peeved to find their phones useless in the GSM world.