Sentences with phrase «tablet calls itself a tablet»

While Nook Tablet calls itself a tablet, it still lacks many tablet features and access to the wide swath of apps on Android Market.

The Nook Color omitted those features as well, but considering that the Nook Tablet calls itself a tablet and is trying to compete with tablets, Barnes & Noble should have added at least some of them.

Not exact matches

The day's announcements included a new version of the Android OS for the smartphone in your pocket; the new Nexus 7 tablet computer for the couch; a set - top sphere called Nexus Q to pipe music and movies to your TV; a cloud - computing platform for your business; and the ultimate in cyber nerd fantasy, Google Glass, a pair of Android - enabled glasses to stream data directly into your eyeballs.

«While we would have preferred the initial launch to have been smoother,» Lazaridis said in December's conference call, «I firmly believe that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet remains the most secure and most advanced tablet platform on the market today.»

For instance: In 2012, Razer showcased a hybrid tablet / laptop that could be used as a (massive) handheld game console — it was called Project Fiona.

Smartphone and tablet battery technology is adequate for making calls, sending texts, checking social media and playing games, but all of these activities simultaneously can drain a battery by noon.

Players can detach sections of the controller — called Joy - Cons — and slide them into the main unit, which then itself detaches and becomes a tablet - like device.

It's called the Moleskine Smart Writing Set, and it includes a paper tablet, smart pen, and one pen ink refill.

You can also track phone calls that come in via mobile and tablet devices.

Called simply Surface, the sleek Windows 8 tablet with an innovative touch - keyboard cover was a surprisingly alluring gambit by the lumbering giant of Redmond, Wash..

The new software, which will be distributed over the air starting tomorrow, is a major release for the company, and it accompanies a slate of new Nexus devices: a six - inch phone called the Nexus 6, a nine - inch tablet called the Nexus 9, and TV streaming device called the Nexus Player.

«In an effort to compete with the iPad, Amazon on Wednesday unveiled their new tablet computer called the Kindle Fire, which will retail for [US] $ 199.

«Is Amazon really calling its tablet the Fire?

But Jackson argues a shift is underway because next generation technology is allowing near - console quality gaming to be done via chips on devices as small as a smartphone or tablet; coupled with digital distribution via cloud or streaming, it calls into question the need for a console in the first place.

The tablet's low - resolution, light - starved cameras aren't good for much beyond video calls.

In Canada, 70 % of TV viewers watch shows with a smartphone, tablet or computer in hand — so - called second screens that are changing the nature of TV viewing.

Google calls the device a Project Tango Tablet Development Kit and sells it at a starting price of $ 512.

But right off the shelf, numerous smartphones and tablets like the HTC ThunderBolt and Fujitsu's Oak Trail tablet (which runs on Windows 7) will come with dual cameras and video calling features built in.

This can leave you overwhelmed by a torrent of messages, calls, tweets and other digital information, some important but most of it not, all beamed into your phone, computer and tablet.

I never play video games anymore, but randomly I downloaded this game called Boom Beach on my Android tablet, and have been playing it the past couple days.

Xiaomi competes with Apple on several fronts, including smartphones, tablets, wearables and even laptops (it has a MacBook Air competitor called, uh, the Mi Notebook Air.)

Even though she's a lifetime Starwood platinum member, Eagan often uses a hotel app called Tablet Hotels to find a place to stay.

The LED screens of our smartphones, tablets, and laptops give off what is called blue light, which studies have shown can damage vision and suppress production of melatonin, a hormone that helps regulate the sleep cycle.

The Spectre and Meltdown attacks are made possible by an underlying vulnerability related to a feature called speculative execution that's been used by nearly every computer chip found in PCs, tablets, and smartphones made over the last 20 years.

Some call it a phablet — a cross between a smartphone and a tablet.

Research firm BI Intelligence forecasts that the so - called Internet of Things will account for 9 billion device connections in 2018, roughly comparable to the number of smartphones, tablets, PCs, smart TVs and wearable computers combined.

The technology giant said Monday that people can now send free text messages or make video and audio calls to other tablet owners, as long as they have installed the Alexa app to their devices.

While owners of Amazon's Fire HD 10 will be able ask Alexa to make calls without using their hands, people who bought older models like the Fire 7 or Fire HD 8 tablets will have to first tap their device's home button.

This second phase of the initiative is called Connect My Data, which allow customers to authorize direct, secure transfers of their electricity usage data to web and mobile apps for their computers, tablets and smartphones.

Our mission is simple: we develop fast and highly secure responsive (mobile / tablet compatible) websites that generate more phone calls, leads and overall sales; all you have to do is do what you do best.

Bill Gurley: There's a set of books that I recommend startups read and some of them are basic, but there's a book called Startup by Jerry Kaplan where he had a startup that was in like the tablet space, but it was called Go.

On a conference call as HP released its third - quarter earnings on Thursday, the company's president and chief executive officer Léo Apotheker admitted both the tablet and the company's WebOS software had flopped.

New York City will begin this month replacing thousands of pay phones with free Wi - Fi hot spots that will sit atop a 9.5 - foot tall box featuring electronic advertising screens and an Android tablet that can be used to place free phone calls.

Amazon.com is set to unveil their new, full - color tablet PC, and TechCrunch says it will be called the Kindle Fire (to distinguish it from the e-ink-powered standard Kindles).

God used that man to find Noah's Ark,, the Ark of the Covenant — complete with the two tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments (which I call the Ten Protections), the Red Sea crossing, Mount Siani and Sodom & Gomorrah.

Budziszewski stresses the relevance of God to the ethical enterprise, devoting an entire chapter to detailing the deficiencies of what he calls «the Second Tablet Project.»

The Tablet editorial has maintained the category confusion, which might more accurately be called a disregard for the phenomena of sin and conversion.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

However, the late Fr Ernan McMullin argued that evolution calls for a dramatic reinterpretation of the Genesis story of human origins -LCB- The Tablet, Jan 2008).

Middle East Must Keep Its Christians, Says Vatican Calling for Scrutiny of Islamists» Funding Hannah Roberts, The Tablet

As Saint John Paul often declared, Christians today are called on to be «signs of contradiction» (rather than signs of the kind of unvarying conformity with «progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» which you will find in the pages of The Tablet and of Cornwell's books).

He so called got the tablets and then they just disappeared?

IMA Active, the solid dose division of the Italian pharmaceutical packaging machine manufacturer IMA, offers a new tablet press called Prexima.

Chocolate is sold in bars called tablillas (tablets).

According to the 49ers, Montana suffered cramps in his passing hand in the first half and was given a tablet of a soluble calcium salt supplement called Fosfree.

When I'm on the go I'm constantly using my smartphone and tablet to check my email, post to social media, participate in conference calls, and keep up with my schedule.

Users simply launch the Momseze app (available for download on an iphone in iTunes or an Android in Google Play) and press Connect Now to immediately talk with a lactation consultant (we call them «Friendseze») via video chat, voice only or text, directly through the app, on their phone or tablet.

They had a huge wacom tablet called the «Cintiq» for artists.

Marjorie Ingall wrote an article in Tablet Magazine called Bottled Guilt, where she argues that Jewish women are set up to feel guilty when breastfeeding doesn't work out.

Tanning pills are tablets containing a chemical called canthaxanthin as the main active agent.