For example the woman, Becca Ordonez, had created a digital processing device using off-the-shelf parts, something that might cost a large company many hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop.
The processing power of the device matters to a small extent (an iPad 2 will deliver somewhat better performance than a slightly slower first generation iPad) but the most important factor is the speed of the network which is why the company recommends WiFi or a 4G mobile connection.
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.
Intel is due to unveil a variety of cellphone and other portable device storage and processing chips, some of which are bound to end up in future Apple products.
And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.
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As consumers demand more powerful smartphones packed with features, device makers are rapidly improving processing speeds and the operating software that drives the phones.
The quantity of processing power or storage capacity you get per device and per dollar still doubles every few years.
Anything more than a casual gaming device built into a TV currently is unfeasible, but with faster SoC processing and faster broadband connection, Xbox could be an installation on hardware-compatible devices rather than a discrete device.
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Mobile device manufacturers are looking to tightly integrated processing solutions that deliver more, for less power.
Making the processing of the voice recognition a function of the hardware of the device, makes that aspect of the application asynchronous with the actual database query.
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We also used the device in portrait mode and found it still makes a fantastic word-processing machine, and it shouldn't be a surprise that Microsoft had one eye on the enterprise market.
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Fast and accurate translations are possible with any smartphone, regardless of device specifications, because Hanashite Hon'yaku utilizes DOCOMO's cloud for processing.
The enhanced chipsets are Intel's answer to rival Advanced Micro Device's graphics-minded chip bundles, which are expected to be better at processing high-definition movies and games (see " Intel Fights Back").
Previous mobile device architectures have made it difficult to use the best tools for different parts of complex image processing.
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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.
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