Instead, RIM developed a marketing story specifically tailored for Blackberry users who wanted to extend the screen size and hardware capabilities of their handsets.
Touch-screen looks set to complement existing hardware, rather than banish them to the history books, enabling more collaboration and simplifying the process of accessing multi-media facilities on the PC.
Between the giant screen gaming demos, the shiny new hardware and the ever-present booth babes, the Electronic Entertainment Expo may well be the short attention span capital of North America at the moment.
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Together, the Arena app and Atlas controller turn a Kindle Fire HD into a gaming console so you can enjoy mobile games from the couch on a big screen TV without making an investment in new hardware.
The Galaxy 4 is a powerful package when it comes to hardware: a faster processor, larger screen, better camera, and bigger battery.
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The first shows a user's hands on a traditional hardware keyboard projected in an on-screen representation (as background, Apple mentions the ergonomic strain of looking down to check your hand placement, so perhaps that's the thinking behind this one).
Sure, it's hard to imagine a reason for most people to pick up a DMP-B15 over a cheapish Blu-ray playing laptop -- the thing is monstrously thick, and can't even handle a traditional laptop-style screen orientation, only everything but -- but the hardware is reliable enough for kids to handle on the road, and the single-use makes it a good home Blu-ray player for plugging into that second HD-starved TV.
This early model, however, catalyzed the idea of a second screen for the players' hands and lead to the barebones hardware you can see above.
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It's a bit bulky and heavy considering the tiny screen size, something to be expected considering the sheer amount of hardware crammed inside.
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The Waterloo, Ontario, company also had to incorporate new hardware, including an "accelerometer" that rotates the screen when the phone is turned on its side.
Why spend the money on new hardware that only boasts a newer processor and a slightly bigger screen when the free iOS 6 download streamlines legacy iPhones?
"Samsung's overall smartphone strategy is about producing scores of iterations at various price points and screen sizes in order to saturate the market with as much of its hardware as possible, " Natasha Lomas wrote for TechCrunch.
Looks-wise, the hardware's largely unchanged, aside from the bigger footprint and a screen ratio that appears closer to the iPad competition, rather than the widescreen shape that arrived on RIM's first tablet.
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The folks at Hot Hardware weren't totally stoked on the setup process, but loved the screen's performance and flexibility.
Testing out the device, the hardware felt quite responsive and the phone was light while appearing to be all screen.
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One of the hardware designers, lamenting that the antennas of traditional laptops were buried in the display screen, asked if he could liberate them to increase range.
As we already mentioned, the Nexus lacks hardware buttons, which have been replaced with three softkeys at the bottom of the screen -- back, home and recent apps.
Google unveiled the first touch-screen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant made its latest foray into hardware development.
Through its industry-leading OpenSMA program, uControl brings together all the players who power the Connected Home, integrating and enabling a diverse ecosystem, from Service Providers such as cable and telephone companies to Platform Hardware and Lifestyle Device manufacturers who supply items such as thermostats, lighting controls, touch screen tablets and security sensors.
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While a number of startups and hardware companies are developing services that run directly on the TV, Cahan believes that the second screen is where people want to be to use these kinds of television applications.
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While the software failed to reverse the screen rotation after we flipped the screen back to laptop mode, it was in general just as responsive as the Q702, though the hardware felt more solid and ready.
Just like with the Wii and motion controls, Nintendo leads the way with second screen controllers with the Wii U. If this report is correct, Sony wants to go the proprietary hardware route, whereas Microsoft is going with phones and tablets, but one way or another all the major companies want to put second screens in our hands.
However, as with all of its competitors I've tested that don't completely separate the screen and the keyboard, the XPS 12 doesn't make for a very usable tablet, both for hardware and software reasons.
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