While we're on the subject of BlackBerry devices, the Bold 9790 -- a device that officially launched a month ago -- is also making it to the UK as a SIM-free device as soon as January 9th.
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It started out a business-minded device, and RIM has continued to market it as a business-friendly device, although recent ads have pitched it as a leisure phone for young multitaskers as well.
The company is also working on a Steam "box" - a set-top device that will let people play games on a big-screen TV in their living room.
It's the first stereo speaker to offer 360-degree sound in a battery-powered device, and features a 15-hour rechargeable battery.
Turning our attention to tablets, Samsung is said to be prepping a 7-inch device with a front-facing camera (something we're expecting to see on pretty much all high-end smartphones and tablets going forward).
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Lee Lovely, the head of the Latin American division of a medical-device company, says that when it came time to design a lounge for his 13- and 15-year-old sons he took inspiration from his own favorite arcade games and comic books for a superhero-themed space.
"It's clear we're shifting to a multi-device world and that creates a lot of pain points, " says Karl Mattson, vice president and general manager of Maxthon, which has about 220 employees.
The engineers found a way to kick-start a radio-frequency device wirelessly using an external power source initially, but running the device afterward on the output of power generated by the inner ear.
About a week later, a family member received a ransom demand and was shown a grainy video on a hand-held device of a man whom extremists claimed was al-Taie.
The slide also indicates the Opal will have a particular e-reading focus, which makes sense for a 7-inch device, and there's a mention of "premium audio, " which nicely reinforces our speaker hypothesis.
Jain: What we need in India -- and in other emerging markets -- is a low-cost access device which can make the Internet a mass-market service, a utility service.
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We are still too often trying to approach each price range on a device-to-device basis.
These samples were run through a mass spectrometer - a device that effectively measures all the masses of the chemical compounds in the breath.
In 1843 the ABS sold the first-ever charitable gift annuity, a now-popular fundraising device in which a person makes a donation to a tax-exempt entity and gets back a specified annual return for life.
Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
You can use electrocautery, a hook, a pair of scissors, a sharp-tip dissector, a blunt-tip dissector, a right-angle dissector, or a suction device.
If you're using a non-NFC device like an iPhone or a Sony WiFi camera, then worry not -- it's possible to achieve the same results using WiFi alone, and you can also use an SD card or USB to get data across.
The Lumia 800 is a quad-band phone while the 710 is a tri-band device.
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To me, an endpoint is a single-user device with a human interface and an IP address.
This group includes such innovators as Peter Farrell of ResMed, a medical-device maker that employs 600 workers.
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In the golden era of the PDA, many debated whether future consumers would adopt a one-device or two-device approach.
Medtronic, a medical-device maker, began offering its employees this sort of plan, along with more conventional managed-care coverage, last year.
"They would rather get you as a customer than potentially get download revenue, " notes Avi Greengart, a mobile-device analyst at Current Analysis.
It is no longer just the complexities of reaching a multi-device audience.
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In contrast, a barely-smart device like a phone offers a poor platform.
Archos first announced its TV Connect ahead of CES 2013, which detailed a two-device approach to bringing the Android experience to televisions.
As illustrated with the Amtrak example, in order to have a multi-device solution, it requires even more time and resources for software development and hardware.
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O2 has sought to counter cost complaints by touting the phone as a feature-packed device with a top of the line MP3 player and Internet browser, not just a mere cell phone.
One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G.
What about the fact that, in addition to a six-speed automatic, this wagon can be had with a six-speed manual transmission, a device that's quickly becoming a drivers-only shibboleth?
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