Instead, it just tries to be thinner, lighter or a little more advanced than its competitors in the high-end and mid-level price bands.
But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.
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Boost Mobile offers a selection of quality handsets from Motorola, Sanyo, Research In Motion (RIM) and Samsung, ranging from entry-level to high-end devices.
With emerging markets expected to see the highest growth rates in smartphone adoption in the coming years, Qualcomm is looking to extend its dominance at the high-end to the entry-level smartphone market as well.
But with the recent arrival of five-star contemporary favourites such as the St Regis and or the Four Seasons, located along bustling Market Street, the high end has come down to sea level and into buzzy SoMa, the acronym for the once-gritty-now-booming area south of Market Street.
Available in a range of features and configurations, Qualcomm Snapdragon processors enable great gaming experiences across a large spectrum of devices, from entry-level smartphones to high-end smartphones and tablets.
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"I will stay focused and try to get all the globes possible and most important to keep that high level of performance until the end of the World Cup season", she told the official FIS website.
For example, over the past ten years HSY has historically traded for 18.7x and 25.8x times cash earnings, but at the current price level it is near the high end of that range at 22.7x.
Ubuntu is aimed at two core mobile segments: the high-end superphone, and the entry-level basic smartphone, helping operators grow the use of data amongst consumers who typically use only the phone and messaging but who might embrace the use of web and email on their phone.
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Only 3% of the spirits market there is considered by industry analysts to be high-end, or at the "premium" level.
The foxLv2 aptX entry level model joins Soundmatters' high-end aptX-equipped foxLv2 PLATINUM, named 2012 Best of CES Finalist by the International Bluetooth Consortium.
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Companies that aren't appropriate for the high-end support won't enjoy the same level of attention from Microsoft that big companies will, one analyst said.
"An entry-level smartphone is very different from a high-end smartphone, " he said.
They add it's particularly tough to get that level of detail from car ads, luxury goods and high-end clothing because such purchases aren't made regularly and often different emotional things play into those purchase decisions.
To that end, President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk announced the convening of a high-level U.S.-Poland Business Roundtable that would foster a collaborative government and private sector discussion to identify new commercial opportunities, promote innovative research and development cooperation, and to address obstacles that hinder commercial growth.
High-end GPUs contribute siginificantly less to overall GPU sales vs. low and mid-level GPUs.
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According to Mr. Castonguay, Nokia has done a good job of producing a balanced approach, with high-end phones to tackle the top of the market, and a cheaper entry-level device to service Nokia's traditional markets.
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