Since Intel IPT is embedded at chip-level, unlike hardware or phone-based tokens, it can enable more secure, yet user-friendly cloud access protection.
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Despite dropping the ball on the operating system front, Nokia is the king of cell phone hardware.
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"Making phone hardware is hard work, much harder than anything Facebook has ever attempted in the past, " she wrote.
Facebook has consistently denied the development of any sort of dedicated Facebook phone hardware, but continues to emphasize its mobile platform presence.
Microsoft may be keeping all the Windows Phone hardware partners in check, but one of them is getting a lot more coverage than others.
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Project Openmoko, which was dedicated to producing a truly open Smartphone OS, backed out of phone hardware after the release of the FreeRunner in 2009.
Summertime also brought a bit of a shock, as Microsoft revealed that Windows Phone 8 apps won't be compatible with the current generation of Windows Phone hardware.
Rohan thinks the pending Motorola Mobility acquisition could distract senior management, while failing to protect Android and leading Google into the intensely competitive mobile phone hardware business, and keeping Google from returning capital to holders.
Not only is phone hardware complex to make, but one is up against huge producers on the production side, and carriers on the distribution side who are already locked in a best-enemies relationship with those huge producers.
After all, like Wi-Fi, once you get beyond the miniscule hardware cost of the phone itself, it costs close to absolutely nothing per call.
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Then there is the not so little issue that Apple is expected to release a new hardware revision of its phone, the iPhone 5, this summer.
Exciting to see some quality hardware on the Windows Phone 7 front, the Lumia 800 is gorgeous engineering and appears very well built, exactly what the WP7 ecosystem needs to grow.
Ubuntu for Phone obviously needs hardware partners and software developers to make its mooted launch on devices happen.
You don't use a hardware buttons to navigate the phone at all: They're just to turn the phone on or off, or adjust the volume.
Below you can see an alternate fullscreen version of the phone (a hardware reference model, not a device you can expect to buy anytime soon) up and running its browser app.
Nokia's Lumia 800 is a sophisticated and capable smartphone that melds its hardware beautifully with the Windows Phone OS. Whether it's the best phone for you right now depends on certain factors.
The phone's hardware isn't as impressive as Samsung's, but the software is easy to use, and it's based on a strong idea: taking the pain out of communicating across email, text messaging and social networks.
Where HP's work bringing webOS to new platforms and architecture could pay off, though, is in licensing webOS. Effective licensing ultimately requires supporting a broad range of hardware configurations, a burden that Nokia, for example, has pledged to help Microsoft with as the phone maker brings Windows Phone 7 to less costly hardware.
With that in mind, I used it as my main phone for a few weeks to see whether a handful of truly unique hardware extras, and the leap to Windows Phone 8, make it a more viable device than predecessors like the Lumia 900 -- not necessarily for a technology news editor, but certainly for anyone trying to call, chat and navigate through a cold season.
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Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.
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The hardware specs for the current Windows Phone 8 devices are a match for Android.
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Testing out the device, the hardware felt quite responsive and the phone was light while appearing to be all screen.
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Microsoft still makes more money from Android patent licensing than it does by selling licenses of Windows Phone OS to its hardware partners.
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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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The question, of course, is whether users, even those excited about the phone and its new hardware and software, will actually use the gesture controls.
So I should be able to use data from any application on any phone (given sufficient hardware specs to support the software.) This, of course, is not at all the case at present.
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The older first and second generation Windows Phone devices, the majority of them running Windows Phone 7.5, do not have the same hardware profile as the newer devices, and because of that cannot run the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
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But even more troubling is the prospect of viruses custom-designed to disrupt phone calls or attack the hardware that makes them possible.
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