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Overall smart device sales were just 6.3 million units, down 38% sequentially and 62.5% year-over-year, and below Street expectations.
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Apple and Google both appear to understand the Smart Device convergence, and are approaching it, at least today, slightly differently.
Samsung's flagship smart device Galaxy Note has reached 1 million global shipping.
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In contrast, a barely-smart device like a phone offers a poor platform.
It is even possible to control your camera remotely from your smart device to help you take beautiful shots without disturbing your subjects.
For example, if someone is watching a pizza commercial, the app could offer a coupon for the pizza shop on the user's smart device.
Field professionals can go from the warehouse to the job site and provide better, faster service because of the enhanced communication capability of the smart device.
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Smart device net sales of approximately EUR 1.2 billion, with total volumes of 6.6 million units of which 4.4 million units were Nokia Lumia smart phones.
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The same rules that protect clothes designers and music recordings from counterfeiters are being used to protect smart device manufacturers from disabling locks that prevent unintended use.
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The UK decided not to impose such a threshold after a consultation exercise highlighted the value of offering the relief to the fast-growing smart device video games market.
But at bottom, whatever you name it, this all is just the evolution of the personal computer, a smart device that a person uses to access information and communicate.
Some of the strongest growth was seen in emerging markets, such as South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia, helped not least by the growing base of smart device users in those countries.
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For example, South Korea and Japan have the 4th and 5th largest smart device installed bases of all countries, yet they ranked 7th and 10th, respectively, for downloads over the record week.
The rugged smart device was created for traditional auto-identification and data capture customers who want something sleeker and lighter than a typical AIDC industrial device, but need something tougher than a consumer-grade phone.
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Similar to a situation that plagues many other industries dealing with consumer issues, the consumerization of the smart device and tablet is exposing the enterprise to perils of unintended use of the device.
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Flurry also explored countries that have large untapped consumers capable of jumping into the smart device market, basing its numbers on International Monetary Fund (IMF) numbers and income from a study by Miller-McCune.
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However, the search giant's Motorola handset division has itself lost a number of legal challenges involving some of the disputed technologies which may have encouraged others involved in the smart device sector to settle.
Mobile gaming is a vibrant and exciting space and we don't see controller-based games replacing touch screen games, we expect them to enhance and enlarge the smart device gaming experience to include the living room experience.
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Add to that the increased use of unsecured public Wi-Fi spots that now are dominated by unsecured smart device users and you might as well have a plane skywrite your message for all the world to read.
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But it hardly spells the end for the company, which is just getting started pitching the BlackBerry Z10, a phone that is about as opposite of the iPhone than one can get and still be a smart device.
Moving forward the company aims to achieve further brand acceptability among all target segments through a broader offering of cutting-edge handsets that combine mobile phone functionality with enriched content and smart device capabilities for greater high-speed voice and data capacity.
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"They might jam a smart device to make systems not available in the airport, or play with the bar code of flight tickets, so that you can have access to a space you shouldn't have access to, " he says, while admitting that these scenarios are extreme.
Subsequent releases of the GoPro App will enable streaming playback of videos and photos from the camera to a smart device, sharing of photo and video content from the camera to social networks, controlling of multiple cameras, and streaming live video from the camera to the web.
Exploding security risks likely will re-bifurcate the smart phone and tablet markets away from one converging business and personal smart phone device to separate business and consumer smart phones and tablets, potentially creating a new leg of wireless growth for device manufacturers and wireless providers.
Google is now getting into the smart phone device-making business, already possessing the Android operating system.
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Marvell's ARMADA 1500 platform provides state-of-the-art video performance and can be built into any smart TV device.
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Rounding out the top 5 smart connected device vendors in 2012 was Lenovo at number 3 with 6.5% share.
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The company is currently trialling its ADM smart meter device for gas and water, both in the UK and internationally.
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