But critics point to the basic features the iPad is missing including a USB port, a camera, and the ability to view Flash video.
So it's not just LTE, but also some of the basic features that make the iPhone such a compelling product, which will suddenly turn on for T-Mo customers.
I'd rather have options available to adjust my shot for each unique situation, but even the most basic camera features are missing.
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The basic "time" mode features a 12-hour display, with the hours positioned above the minutes on the face.
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With the sets of basic specifications and features set in stone, HTC's engineers can then offer the right phone sizes that meet the carriers' requirements, as well as showing a relatively bland rectangular ABS block as an indication on how much space is needed to pack all the components.
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The company continued to focus on basic Daytimer-like features in the Palm OS, while multifunction, Internet-connected devices were what customers clamored for.
The Series3 has been around for about 3 months now and among other missing features the Series3 didn't ship with some basic features available on other TiVos including "Recently Deleted" and KidZone.
One huge difference between the Fukushima and Chernobyl circumstances relates to basic reactor facility design features.
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The basic platform is free and is monetized by upselling advanced features, increased storage and additional security.
Rather than charge users to buy software, publishers opted for a "freemium" model, in which the basic product was given away but premium add-on services or features involved payment.
It bases these sums on the "market price" of other patent deals and suggests that if Google's demanded rates became the norm it would become prohibitively expensive to offer what should be basic features.
Another basic precaution against the small-fry hacker is to turn on security features built into the operating system, Winkler said.
There are impressive enhancements to all the core features of the device, but none of them change the basic experience.
The basic Looker app will be free but Kogeto plans to charge for premium features like sophisticated editing tools and greater amounts of storage on its site.
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The most basic service takes advantage of Nest's existing technology, which features an Auto-Away process that learns the users' schedules and adjusts temperatures when no one is home.
The big difference is that the Purple Health Plan features what amounts to premium support for a single basic policy for all Americans, not just those now on Medicare.
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In addition to basic console operations, the online manual details the handheld's major features and apps, including Party, Near, the PS Store, a Photos app, the web browser, remote play and the Vita's video and music apps.
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Since Xbox Live Gold began, it has steadily added new features on top of its basic offering, which includes providing the infrastructure for online multiplayer matches.
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Aside from your basic PlayStation buttons (sans joysticks), two shoulder buttons and a duo triggers, the unit features a duo of paddles that wrap along its circular center which can be be used for shifting and the like.
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Innovations are remarkably similar in some of their basic features as described by economist-statistician Zvi Griliches many years ago in his study of the dispersion of new hybrid corn seed varieties.
And while a few basic features are notable by their absence, like word count and copying and pasting to and from the desktop applications, support for new features are being added all the time.
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