So to fix this, we focused on slowing the company down and learning our unit economics.
Somehow, our unit got into an endless loop of trying to install a software upgrade and basically became non-functional.
We were straight into training, doing our weights for the week and working on our unit skills in preparation for what lies ahead.
We got a sneak preview of the website last week and our unit a Jambox with a white grill and graphite caps just arrived.
The removable shell on our unit was bright matte yellow.
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Our unit was covered in thick, neon blue fur.
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All we know for sure is that we're showing a big, fat "3.5G" logo in the upper left corner of our unit at the moment -- and we're going to cross our fingers that it stays that way.
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Let's start with the basics: the main specs on our unit include Android 1.6 (which will definitely be obsolete for the final product), five-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, Snapdragon QSD8250 chipset (with CPU clocked at 1GHz), Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and WCDMA radio.
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More importantly the positive reception of the phone gives us greater confidence that Apple can not only meet our 6-10 million iPhone 5 unit estimate for the rest of September, but also hit our 49 million unit estimate for the December quarter, which assumes 32% year-over-year growth.
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The result seems to be less cycling of the furnace vs. our old unit.
Still, that's between three and 70 Big Digs, to use our local unit of currency.
Our review unit is an unlocked T28z which enjoyed a happy life on VoiceStream and eventually T-Mobile.
To thank for it, we primarily have Jack Gage of our statistics unit.
This would add 6% to our global unit sales forecast for the iPhone 4 (61 million iPhones instead of 58 million).
The radical and ultimately unworkable notion is for the dollar, which is our basic unit of market value, to have no legal definition.
The main issue we had with our review unit involved the camera.
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By and large, we're looking at identical hardware (and mostly identical software) as our review unit from back in March, so we'll be brief.
While the build quality of our review unit is generally top-notch, the bottom-left corner of that glass surface is not perfectly flush with the body.
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Even a 320kbps track worked fine and the line-out audio sounded just as good as from an ordinary PMP (not from its bundled handsfree though -- our review unit didn't come with one).
Our review unit came with a rather large world charger (compatible with both North American and European sockets and voltages), a wired earpiece and the rare optional Bluetooth adapter that attaches to the bottom of the T28 (more on this later).
Also, I hate pretense, and I felt that he was pressuring me to accept his view of our happy family unit.
This style is sufficiently subtle on our white review unit and adds a little extra personality to an otherwise plain and glossy device.
We'll get our hands on a review unit soon enough to put it through its paces, but in the meantime, check out our photos (and video) to get a closer look at the splendidly-specced midrange phone.
But our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb Obamacare.
Net public debt rose from 14% of GDP in 2008 to 29% last year, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company, expects it to reach 35% in 2011.
Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society.
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As for that current hardware, both the Revue and the Sony Google TV products received unspecified "security updates" today, although Qriocity and Music Unlimited access remained offline on our Sony Internet TV unit.
Our luxury brand segment has seen increased unit sales as we continue to broaden the focus of our jewelry and timepieces.
So, we'll refrain from passing definitive judgement until a final review unit is in our hands.
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