In coming days, Rhode Islanders will follow the unfolding news from Brazil with a sense of queasy deja vu -- the rising body counts, the victim identification process, the grieving families, and the assigning (and dodging) of blame.
It's a bit of deja vu -U.S. presidents on their way out who look to make a dent in the Middle East peace process as they're out the door.
We already knew that LG's now jumped on the TD-LTE bandwagon with the demo of a modified Optimus G, but it turns out that China Mobile also announced several devices that are destined for its 4G market, including the 5-inch 1080p Huawei Ascend D2 (D2-TL), the 4.7-inch 1080p HTC One (TD101), the 5-inch XGA LG Optimus Vu II Plus and the mysterious 5-inch 1080p ZTE U9810.
Mr. HERSH: The people that talked to me say, you know, deja vu, - you know, like Yogi Berra said - all over again - is Iraq all over again.
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Indeed, docs detailing the CDMA-clad Optimus Vu is now beginning to make the rounds in Verizon's internal system -- and its intended launch date is among the trove of treasures to be found within.
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Wolves must have had a sense of deja-vu when the Mariners went in front after just two minutes.
And it will be a sense of deja-vu for the U's, who lost last year's final to the Gulls' Devon rivals Exeter.
"It was kind of like deja vu from the Auckland final -- there I think I also had seven or eight match points before I won, " said the 23-year-old Radwanska after her win over an opponent who had beaten her on three occasions last year.
Now, considering that there's been plenty of time since this filing to bring such a smartphone to market, we're going to guess that LG's abandoned plans for its tri-screen device, opting instead to boost the primary display size in smartphones like its Optimus G Pro, or the poorly received 5-inch Optimus Vu.
NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz invited Vu Nguyen, the infrastructure engineer for the Curiosity project to discuss the big data behind the process of landing Curiosity safely on the surface of Mars.
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While the docs don't come out and specifically mention the Vu name or the phone's iconic 5-inch display, the diagram (seen above) of the LG VS950 shows the exact same speaker grille setup on the lower left as well as the SIM flap on the upper right.
Apple's entry with a smart watch could also jump-start the market, although Sonny Vu, chief executive of Misfit Wearables, says positioning a device on a wrist could be too restrictive for many people.
Sales of premium LTE smartphones such as Optimus G and Vu:2 increased in the fourth quarter, as did the L-series and Google Nexus 4.
The market for technology-related companies since the late 1990s has been deja vu for me and perhaps for many others who began their careers in the 1960s.
But if that weren't enough to clue us in, you can clearly see something that looks curiously like an antenna on the top left -- in the very same place as the Korean Optimus Vu.
The boom is good news for people like apartment owner Bui Vu Thi, but it's bad news for people like 48-year-old Nguyen Anh Tuan, a security guard at a state-run school in Hanoi.
Ultimately, the Intuition is Verizon's variant of the Optimus Vu, and boasts that commonality right down to the components and design -- you won't find much difference in specs, weight or dimensions between the two.
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And so we come to a moment of deja vu, in which we see gamers once again labeled with that most perennial of put-downs: Entitled.
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