If Sprint and T-Mobile end up merging, perhaps Clearwire would become the LTE part of the new company.
To be sure, it's not all the 2011 draft class's fault, and the 40-yard dash isn't the end-all be-all of combine drills.
Companies that aren't appropriate for the high-end support won't enjoy the same level of attention from Microsoft that big companies will, one analyst said.
Interestingly enough, Pioneer's 50-inch 1080p plasma didn't win best high-end plasma as it is just a display with no tuner.
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And you continue and die and come back alive and couldn't end -so on and so forth.
The device crams that resolution into a 3.5-inch screen, which wouldn't be so bad if the capacitive touchscreen element wasn't so low-end.
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The good news is that debt problems aren't a dead-end street.
"Hearing loss is a medical condition, but we don't want people going without help, " says Sreekant Cherukuri, the Chicago otolaryngologist who designed it for patients who couldn't afford high-end hearing aids.
It's to be expected for a device of this nature -- most users eyeing the Xcover 2 likley aren't keen on top-end specs and high-performance.
T-Mobile has said its high-end Android phones average 1.3 gigabytes a month of data usage.
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Maybe they can't afford the high-end items they covet now, but hopefully one day they will.
Roche said it plans to file for FDA approval of T-DM1 by the end of this year.
Microsoft's stalwart Photo Gallery and Movie Maker won't be hitting high-end studios anytime soon, but a new refresh for Windows 7 and 8 adds useful features that the teeming masses might appreciate.
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The rounded, almost kid-friendly edges aren't the markings of a high-end product either, but Archos tempers the cheap materials with a stainless steel frame that surrounds the 10.1-inch display and carries through to the back of the device.
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The slip is allegedly due to a "delay in certification, " suggesting that the FCC might be responsible for gumming up the works here -- but any way you slice it, this doesn't bode well for folks looking to get their high-end Palm on who don't have the benefit of Vodafone coverage.
The yield on the 10-Year T-Note just dropped slightly from the end of 2011 to the 2012 year-end yield of 1.765%.
For example, when the researchers asked the MBA students about their likely salary package in their first job, the optimists tended to predict that their starting earnings would be higher than average for their peers--but the optimists didn't, in fact, end up with above-average starting salaries.
But after a few minutes - probably about five - I could see that the end - I couldn't tell whether it was the bow or the stern - of the boat was sticking vertically out of the water.
"For the vast majority of people, Facebook just isn't the be-all and end-all of their mobile experience, " he said.
T-Mobile had one low end WP7 device that we considered for our daughter (She choose something else).
The new handset shares a handful of specs with the Ascend D2, and although it's not as equipped, you wouldn't call it a low-end device.
"Cash balances aren't the be-all and end-all, " Mr. Parker says.
Drawbacks most center around the less predictable factors -- Barefoot 3 doesn't have an established track record for reliability, and the pricing isn't always favorable against high-end peers like Samsung's SSD 840 Pro.
Introduced at this year's Wireless Broadband World Forum, these upcoming devices (which frustratingly lack either names or model numbers) also feature either 512MB or 1GB of flash RAM, with two of them adding T-DMB and VoIP capabilities, and the high-end model throwing in a little GPS action to boot.
While the low-voltage Core i5 chip (there's a Core i3 option), 1080p IPS-based screen, 5-megapixel rear camera and front 1.3-megapixel shooter don't scream for attention by themselves among higher-end Windows 8 slates, there's an optical trackpoint and mouse buttons that make themselves genuinely handy in the non-Metro desktop.
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