As with any gaming console, good hardware only tells half of the story.
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Windows Phone has a good hardware base, but now it needs to be aggressive and become an established part of the entire mobile landscape.
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Nokia's new smartphone doesn't match Apple's iPhone in terms of services and application availability, but it could still sell well in the wider smartphone market because it offers good hardware for its price, Mr. Johansson said.
While we appreciate that having a touchscreen allows Tesla to tweak the user interface in software, there's no haptic feedback, and we'd still much prefer having good ole hardware knobs and switches for the main controls.
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Nokia has a good eye for hardware colors and the Lumia 620 offers the most shades yet -- seven in total.
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This tool is free and gives you a good overview of your hardware and software.
If your taste only runs to hardware specs then good luck to you.
But a tablet's hardware is only as good as its software, right?
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It looks like it is going to be a great Christmas fro Apple, and a not-so-good one for Microsoft and its hardware partners.
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Mostly, though, countries seem to be exploiting economic success to update their hardware while the going is good.
"We really believe at Oculus that hardware is really only as good as the content it runs, " Mitchell explains.
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It's not good enough to just pump out lusty hardware like the Walkman in order to drive generous profit streams.
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He knows that, as good as a server may be, hardware breaks.
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Without thoughtfulness and attention to detail (especially the detail that can be provided by good intelligence), all the military hardware in the world is insufficient to protect a state against others that bear old grudges against it.
But some hardware manufacturers are hailing it as good for future sales and product innovation.
Tenants "like to feel that heavy hardware--just like a good Mercedes or Lincoln door--when you slam it, it sounds good, " Hines says.
However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).
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The fact that games can look this good on six-or-seven year old hardware is incredible.
Stepping over to hardware speak, Lin noted that a good portion of its profits come from accessory sales.
We've at last gotten our hands on the S1 and S2 and have a pretty good feel (no pun intended) for the hardware, though we're still oh-so curious about how the software experience will be different from all the other Honeycomb tabs on the block.
This a highly competitive field: with the actual hardware only Apple and Samsung are currently making good money here.
What Apple is incredibly good at is making giant amounts of money off of hardware, which is the main reason people are excited about the idea of a TV.
But Gnutella, along with new hardware that will make films look almost as good at home as they do in theaters, may soon move enough files to drown out the loudest whines Hollywood can muster.
First, the cost of hardware in a prototype like this is not a good predictor of the costs of the eventual finished product.
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Nokia really does look different now, and has coupled its hardware strength with an OS that is swimming in good design and UI principles.
"Now we have almost the reverse, people think the operating system is good enough, and to a certain extent their downgrading the hardware, " Cherry says.
There's little new hardware at Macworld, but that's probably a good thing: No one's buying anyway.
"Tony Sale would expect to see good research and the understanding of the machine as well as a working replica built in either software or hardware, " he said.
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