SEOUL (Reuters) – Apple Inc overtook Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as the world’s top smartphone maker in the fourth quarter of last year, with the South Korean company selling about half a million fewer smartphones than its rival, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday.
Apple sold 37 million iPhones and Samsung sold 36.5 million smartphone handsets, giving each a respective 23.9 percent and 23.5 percent market share.
(Reporting by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Chris Lewis)

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the many features of hand held metal detectors
Articles by Darren Pace

Although metal detectors are used in the hand for a wide range of professional activities, including public safety and determine the location of buried pipes or cables in the construction, one of its applications is the most popular hobby for fun and sometimes profitable well-known that the detection of metals. Lost treasure hunt and is not only exciting and fun to bury, but there are also many other benefits, including healthy exercise, the potential to be profitable, and a hobby for the whole family to enjoy together. In this handy guide, organized by metal detectors, you will learn the basics of how they work and their different uses in the hobby of metal detectors.

The most important parts of a metal detector and purpose

> There are generally four main parts of a metal detector used for treasure hunting, stabilizer, control box, the tree, and the search coil. The stabilizer is an optional ingredient, but it is usually included with all detectors of high quality and is a play on the top of the detector, which encompasses part of the forearm on the sensor to keep stable in the back and sweeping movements. The control unit contains the display or the display and control buttons and houses of all primary metal electronic parts such as portable electronics, the central processor, batteries and speakers. The display is usually just below the hand when holding the detector correctly and is easy to see. The information displayed on the screen varies between different types of sensors and displays information such as battery life indicator, depth and target identification.

Third main part of a metal detector is the tree that is normally adjustable on most detectors and to the amount that can be adjusted easily for you. The search coil is the circular piece fixed to the bottom of the shaft that sends a frequency into the ground will “bounce” when they discovered metal. There are two types of coils, the most commonly used in metal detection system. – The “concentric” and “Wide Scan” Concentric coil bobbins are the most common metal detectors are used for parts, equipped to detect, jewelry and relics, while the broad sweep coil less sensitive to the mineralization of the soil and are usually used for the detection of gold nuggets in the gold mining areas.


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