We noted that the ambitiously thin design made the device a bit bendy and creaky.
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The S4 looks like being not just a connected device but a connecting device.
But road warriors may find the device a handy and reliable way to keep in touch.
Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK also announced August 18 launches for the device a few days ago.
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Putting the design down on paper, Leibniz hired a Paris clockmaker to make the device a reality in 1674.
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Nixon's use of executive privilege in Watergate gave the device a bad name.
The steel band around the middle and "glass weave" backplate actually gave the device a pleasantly premium feel in our hands.
Of course, it's impossible to give the device a thorough review.
But the policies that govern the use of the iPhone, at least in the U.S., make the device a risky choice to showcase some of these new apps.
Sprint plans to support the device a marketing campaign to promote the new category of tablets, according to David Owens, who is runs the carrier's marketing for product launches.
It also handles the app store deployment which recognizes the device a customer is using, and the version of its operating system, and pushes out the correct version of an application.
While many have already started to call the expected device a Sony PlayStation phone, the handset is likely to carry Sony Ericsson's Xper ia brand, another person familiar with the matter said.
Replacing a plastic device with a mobile device capable of receiving as well as sending a variety of information in a visual manner fundamentally changes the purchasing experience, and for the better.
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The relative absence of mobile announcements from the major players in the US market (even Sony, which debuted the Xperia Z, opted not to make the device a centerpiece of its press conference) allowed manufacturers like ZTE and Huawei, largely unknown in the States, to hog the mobile spotlight.
Over the weekend, it was reported that a hacker had claimed to discover a way to jailbreak a Windows RT device so that it would run non-Windows Store apps on a Windows RT device via a circumvention method.
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Even in an age of growing mass customization, producing a device, and in particular a device that needs to look designed, with no rough edges, has unavoidable startup and machining costs.
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He had me bite down on a device called a T-Scan that contains 2, 000 pressure sensors.
The favoured way of measuring h in terms of mass employs a device called a watt balance.
For example, synching of company data to a device is a good reason to have a BYOD policy.
The beam itself will be produced by a device called a fibre laser.
The hard part, he said, was getting hold of a device for a few minutes to insert the software.
Ultrasound waves are transmitted, and their echoes are recorded with a device called a transducer that's held outside your body.
Sociologist Clifford Nass of Stanford University has found that people who stare at a device take a while to refocus.
First, consider the difficulties of manufacturing a device using a photographic process whose resolution is measured in billionths of a meter.
Officials had planned to detach a device called a blowout preventer from the well and replace it with a new one.
How do universities manage the support of a device versus a textbook?
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In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed.
Next, the user plugs the second adapter into any other wall socket, and then connects it to a device via a second cable.
The researchers were led to this idea when they scanned the stem-cell precursors of nerve cells with a device called a gene chip.
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Among the new technologies Intel will demonstrate, we're told by an unnamed source familiar with Intel's agenda, is a device called a Personal Video Player.
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