Mobile communication device with improved network connectivity

A mobile device comprising:

• hardware means for detecting, while the mobile device is powered down, actions made by a user in connection with the user handling the mobile device without pressing a power button of the mobile device;
• means for predicting the user is about to power up the mobile device based upon the actions made by the user indicating a likelihood that the user is going to power up the mobile device;
• and
• means for initiating, before the user presses the power button, an application of power to processing and network communication components of the mobile device so that when the user presses the power button, the processing and network communication components are already powered up thereby reducing an amount of time that the mobile device takes to access a network with the mobile device when the mobile device is powered down.

A non-transitory, tangible processing readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method for initiating an operation with a mobile device, the method comprising:

• detecting, while the mobile device is powered down, actions made by a user in connection with the user handling the mobile device without pressing a power button of the mobile device;
• predicting the user is about to power up the mobile device based upon the actions made by the user indicating a likelihood that the user is going to power up the mobile device;
• and
• initiating, before the user presses the power button, an application of power to processing and network communication components of the mobile device so that when the user presses the power button, the processing and network communication components are already powered up thereby reducing an amount of time that the mobile device takes to access a network with the mobile device when the mobile device is powered down.