The S4 looks like being not just a connected device but a connecting device.
Prepaid net adds were 92, 000, connected device net adds were 382, 000 and reseller net adds were 472, 000.
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With an Internet-connected device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free with messaging, voice and video.
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This is already being done in various pay-TV and CE connected device implemenations thanks to various companies like Rovi.
Rounding out the top 5 smart connected device vendors in 2012 was Lenovo at number 3 with 6.5% share.
ENGADGET: IDC: connected device shipments up 29.1 percent in 2012, smartphones and tablets rule
The sequential and year-over-year change was driven by higher connected device customer deactivations during the fourth quarter of 2011.
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The sequential and year-on-year increase in blended churn was primarily driven by higher churn from branded contract and connected device customers.
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You can also access the app from any Samsung connected device and either watch content or control your SmartTV like a touchscreen remote.
For many people, Netflix was the first glimpse of a kind of content holy grail: limitless choice, all on demand, and available on any Internet-connected device.
Both prosumers and corporate customers alike can take advantage of this program which offers very competitive trade-in values in real-time from their existing smartphone or Internet-connected device.
That's easier said than done, no doubt, and the BBC's plan is to do whatever it takes to get iPlayer on every connected device you own.
And although in some cases what they delivered was a newly crafted content offering, this model did nothing to re-architect the proposition of magazines on a connected device.
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Games will use the connected device to show dungeon maps or highlight weak points on enemy forces, and Madden will even let you draw plays on your tablet.
By accessing the Second Screen companion application on their Internet-connected device, consumers are able to dive deeper into the film by engaging with key elements of the movie.
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As desktop PCs and portable PCs declined (-4.1% and -3.4%, respectively), the overall smart connected device space continued to surge to just over 1.2 billion shipments cumulatively in 2012.
ENGADGET: IDC: connected device shipments up 29.1 percent in 2012, smartphones and tablets rule
The service, only available in the US, enables users to store their music on Google's servers in the "cloud", so that they can use it on any connected device.
Access to devices: There are kids in our Bay Area public schools in almost every class who still do not have access to a connected device at home.
"What we are excited about is that the world may shift to a place where everybody has a 3G connected device for browsing the Web, " he said at the time.
Nevertheless, Teletec is offering up a similar service which doesn't require a special phone, but instead utilizes any internet-connected device to display text that an "online operator" channels to their screen.
After finishing 2011 second to Apple in the smart connected device market, Samsung arose to the number one position in 2012 with just over 20% share across the four device categories.
ENGADGET: IDC: connected device shipments up 29.1 percent in 2012, smartphones and tablets rule
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
Zipwhip pioneered the concept of "cloud texting"-freeing text messaging from the mobile device to allow mobile subscribers to text from virtually any connected device with a fully synchronized experience to their main mobile number.
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Connected device net customer losses were 95, 000 in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to net customer additions of 204, 000 in the third quarter of 2011 and net customer additions of 113, 000 in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Whether connected to a current Denon receiver or other product, audio and video signals are sent via analog audio output and S-Video to the respective inputs on a connected device in order to view the GUI and hear the audio.
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Customers can also access Amazon Instant Video and Prime Instant Video from Kindle Fire, Mac or PC, or on a TV using either a compatible connected device such as a Blu-ray player or a Roku or directly on compatible Smart TVs.
Even Palm's trajectory might have been different if it had inverted its thinking in time: Imagine a Palm Pilot not as a personal information manager with connectivity, but a connected device with PIM applications, and you have described exactly what the smartphone is today.
The service requires businesses to make no changes to their existing number or hardware-customers keep their current voice providers, and simply sign up for a separate cloud-based texting service at zipwhip.com, text enable their existing landline numbers and start texting from any connected device in a matter of minutes.
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While Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac provides up to 1.3 Gbps PHY rate of Wi-Fi capacity, Qualcomm StreamBoost provides a superior connected experience to users of all devices on a home network by managing and shaping traffic, and giving each connected device and application the priority and bandwidth required for optimal performance.
That includes support for photos from Facebook, Picasa or Flickr (more services are also promised), a built-in Twitter client, a video inbox feature to receive videos shot with cellphones (or any other internet-connected device, for that matter), and even its own Gmail address to let anyone easily send photos straight to the frame.
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