The new design points to a device that is highly display centric, which has some people speculating on whether it will itself be wearable.
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Edit: As astude reader johnnie points out - this device supports 850 MHz which of course makes it a quad band device.
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In a sense, and the design of Glass points to this, the device becomes a framework for possible augmentations.
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Krulwich counted at least five Microsoft patents related to determining phone location using wireless access points, radio beacons, device movements and other radio signals.
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Though it is still early, the school says its first survey of the test group already points to high satisfaction with the device.
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Qualcomm, which has a long history of providing technology to cellphone manufacturers, likes to emphasize its experience and expertise in the mobile device industry while Nvidia points to sophisticated technology and engineering that it brought over from its graphics processing unit (GPU) business.
Since the Galaxy S4's launch, Samsung's been eager to make security one of the device's stronger selling points.
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Local search, the device enables owners to tap into an always up-to-date database of local information, rendering obsolete the war over which device has the most millions of points-of-interest.
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Jim did a great job of explaining what each of the mobile technologies really is and what the technology transition means to mobile carriers and device manufacturers not to mention potential pain points along the way.
Games will use the connected device to show dungeon maps or highlight weak points on enemy forces, and Madden will even let you draw plays on your tablet.
Consistency is important, especially in a mobile device where applications are one of the key selling points.
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"It's clear we're shifting to a multi-device world and that creates a lot of pain points, " says Karl Mattson, vice president and general manager of Maxthon, which has about 220 employees.
While we find this new commentary interesting, we await more confirming data points from other supply chain contacts before fully believing a new iPad device is coming in 2011.
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The article froths with agitated exclamation points around the idea that an iWatch could log you into your iOS device, sans typed password, like a key fob for your car.
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The firm also updated its mapping technology to feature "City Lens" - an augmented reality app that overlays information about nearby restaurants and other points of interest over live footage of the surrounding area captured by the device's camera.
Until now, the existence of such a device -- which works by splitting light in a way that points to its source -- has only been hinted at in fleeting literary mentions.
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Maggie Fox at NBC, who did a wonderful write-up of the New England Journal article for NBC, points out that a lot of the authors disclose financial ties to drug or device makers.
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So, pieces of the ideal, which has existed for almost a decade, are beginning to fall into place: multiple devices that serve different functions all pointing at the user and maintaining state, network communications and cloud-based services that coordinate them all, and control points and apps that allow the user to get the most out of his or her device pantheon in the most convenient way.
For the life of the product, users can download four or more full updates of the map on the device every year, which includes all updates to the road network, addresses and Points of Interest.
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The idea is to have lots of access points but make the access nodes as dumb as possible and move all processing activity to a central device.
But I've seriously considered one at a few points over the years, and I've been genuinely curious to see how the first BlackBerry 10 device fares.
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Competitor Skyhook Wireless, which until recently provided the location backbone for every iPad, iPod and iPhone device Apple shipped, has been doing this since 2003, before many homes had wireless access points.
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His company's clip-on device relays steps taken or climbed to a smartphone app that rewards the user for completing challenges with points.
American Express is now allowing card members to apply membership rewards points to their smartphone-enabled retail gift cards, then use them to instantly pay for purchases with their mobile device at select stores.
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