Unfortunately picture-in-picture support won't be part of the hardware and software package until Q3, with BD Live support slated for early 2009.

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The Galaxy 4 is a powerful package when it comes to hardware: a faster processor, larger screen, better camera, and bigger battery.

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It might seem strange for a company that primarily produces hardware, and which has been the beneficiary of huge package deals with corporate buyers for many years, to be advocating a policy of heterogeneity in the workplace.

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The odd thing, though, is that the bit of the package it seems to have got right is the hardware.

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As sensors and crowdsourcing give us ever more granular data into the norms and deviations of the world around us, enterprising developers and hardware companies have trotted out various combinations of atoms and bits to package that awareness, sometimes paired with recommendations, into products.

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They are ODMs, Original Design Manufacturers which means they design the whole package for Western giants and often put their IP into the hardware so as to avoid copycats.

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Because of these hardware limitations and the current dearth of gadgets, the W5fe isn't a particularly appealing package if your main motivation for buying is to get SideShow.

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Verizon's FiOS is literally at the top of its industry in customer satisfaction and it isn't just the fiber running to the outside of its customer's houses that makes it so great -- although no one is saying FiOS is perfect -- it is the total package including how FiOS doesn't mark any content as Copy Once or marry CableCARDs to 3rd party hardware.

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