Buried in with the goodness that Motorola dropped on us Monday was the official news that the L7c is indeed a real device -- though beyond the fact that it rocks EV-DO, we aren't given much to go by.
Of course, none of this is final, and it's all subject to change, but its was certainly nice to actually use the OS to launch and play a game -- now all we need is a real device with a final OS and we'll be able to form some real impressions.
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While Facebook was the home of close friends and family, Twitter was the real-time broadcasting device for the rest of the world.
Cardiologists emphasized that the real market for this device, called MitraClip, is in improving the symptoms of patients who are very sick.
Paul Turnock, design director at Brunel's School of Engineering and Design, said the device had real potential to get children to be more active.
As Lazaridis demoed myriad features from HDMI presentation mode to the built-in music player on the company's hotly debated tablet, it hit me: the one question I've been pondering since getting a real look at the device.
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In this next phase, where information is available in real time to any device, in any mode, it won't be the lack of information but how quickly educators and students can sort it, analyze it and use it.
Huang showed the crowd Need for Speed: Most Wanted running in real-time on the device.
The designers now want to test the device on a real heart and build it into a commercial pacemaker.
The device has some real advantages over other electronic gizmos.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it would ask a federal court on Wednesday to order Apple to ensure consumers were made aware of the real technical capabilities of the device, correct its advertising and refund any affected buyers.
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To call this a risky procedure would be an understatement, however -- venturing past a certain point raises the real possibility of bricking the device, and HTC's bootloader tool already puts limits on post-unlock support even when it's blessed by carriers.
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Press shots are often beautiful, but the problem with 'em is that they're usually about as real as Joan Rivers' face -- not the best way to get a real impression of what a device looks and acts like in the flesh.
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Now, even if those aesthetically challenged pictures of that supposed Origami device we saw yesterday are the real deal, keep in mind that if indeed Origami is just a UMPC device like we speculated before, then several manufacturers should be in line with product.
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But phones aren't the only common non-PC device that faces a real security threat.
Even with those limitations, though, the CrossPad is a cool device that solves a real problem.
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Then, using "augmented reality" technology from Total Immersion Software, the device translated the Mandarin characters on the sign into English, and in real time, super-imposed the characters on the device screen with English translations.
Her software, which helps children understand facial expressions in real time by carrying a small computing device with them, eases the transition from computer interaction to human interaction.
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This video shows even more: Commanding the headset is as easy as uttering the words "OK, Glass, " a clever use of real-world speech to engage the device's listening mode.
Interestingly, many users in emerging markets who will be buying a Firefox phone will not only be getting their first smartphone, but having their first real experiences of the Internet through that device.
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The real innovations are expected to come from a device finding its own unique uses.
How do you boost screen real estate on a smartphone without increasing the device's footprint significantly?
Since it's so core to just about everything you'd want to do on the device, it's a real shame that it doesn't Just Work.
The employee said that only a handful of people were recently allowed to take a new device off campus to use in real life.
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With a feature called Nokia City Lens, users can point the device in any direction to receive real-time information for restaurants, bus stops, and other businesses.
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So Microsoft shifted gears and developed the Extender model which put a CE device at each TV with the real brains of the operation on a PC hidden away back in an office -- where PCs belong.
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The real stumbling block is the way using a tablet device often means reforming the curriculum.
And for the first time, the mobile device had enough computing power and screen real estate to do something interesting with the sensor data.
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