They won best device manufacturer and best Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics Device for the Galaxy camera, and Best Mobile Infrastructure for Smart LTE Networks (they also won the CTO Choice award for their LTE technology).

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"The best of Intel is coming to a mobile device near you, " said Skaugen.

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The company will open more small Best Buy Mobile stores, where it uses a device-savvy sales force to sell smart phones and other mobile devices.

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We choose the best device to meet our needs, as mobile has become such an important part of our lives.

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To John Markus Lervik, a mobile phone is the Web's best surfboard, a device that can get you just the information you want, precisely when you want it.

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Previous mobile device architectures have made it difficult to use the best tools for different parts of complex image processing.

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The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor combines the company's award-winning Advanced Voice processing technology with its first high-performance, low-power audio codec for a best in class voice, speech recognition and multimedia experience on a mobile device.

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If Samsung is its own best customer when it comes to processors, that creates a burden on its mobile device division to keep dominating the market.

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So given that other mobile phone developers are successfully challenging Apple, the previous industry leader, which device is the best all-in-one tool for travellers?

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