Sentences with phrase «at smartphones as»

I'm passionate about people taking images with whatever cameras they have, so we'll be looking at smartphones as well as cameras in the workshop.

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That's why as soon as you see that your flight has been delayed, you should use your smartphone to make an online reservation at a nearby hotel.

As venture capitalist Rob Coneybeer, managing director and founder of Shasta Ventures, told me at the beginning of the summer, the smartphone has changed everything.

The road to handset profits will be a difficult one — BlackBerry's third - quarter results showed that BlackBerry 10 smartphones, once touted as the way to recover lost ground, have hardly been selling at all.

You need to take your smartphone policy as seriously as any other policy; otherwise, employees will violate it and put your company at risk.

As smartphones are increasingly being used at work, so are apps.

The company's performance in China is particularly impressive as overall smartphone sales were down in Q1, according to analysts at Canalys.

Smartphone pioneer BlackBerry is also aiming at health care as a key sector in its transformation from a consumer hardware vendor to an enterprise - focused software and services provider.

That was chief executive Thorsten Heins's message at the annual shareholders meeting in Ontario today, as he tried to defend the company's trajectory after sales of the new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones fell well below analyst expectations.

Down the line, Walmart Pay should be able to allow «scan - as - you - go,» enabling customers» smartphones to ring up the items as they shop or at the cash register and save time at checkout, Eckert said.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal (first reported on by ZDNet), Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun spoke about the company's foray into the US, saying that the first smartphones might arrive as early as the end of this year, or in early 2019 at worst.

All of these are things you could do with a standard smartphone as it is, though they do at least fit in with what Siempo is going for.

At this point, most grandparents have learned to use such marvels of the modern world as laptops, smartphones and even social media, right?

As satirical British street artist Banksy recently (and quite sinisterly) illustrated, we're basically at peak smartphone addiction.

One board member at an energy company carries around a wooden phone — as a joke mocking his colleagues» smartphone dependency.

BlackBerry, which made some of the hottest smartphones on the market in the pre-iPhone era, will get $ 814,868,350 from Qualcomm as part of the settlement, in addition to interest and attorneys» fees that will be determined at a hearing next month.

This baseball cap is equipped to hold most smartphones on its brim because, as the website says, we all need at least two cameras — one for photos and one for videos.

Another reason is that, as I've been predicting, it's possible we won't even need a smartphone at some point.

Anyone who has a smartphone knows that it can be difficult to ignore that buzzing, beeping, incessantly illuminated screen, even in situations when it detracts from your presence, such as in meetings or at the dinner table.

Sync up direct messages: Ever read a direct message on your smartphone to have it still marked as unread when you return to your computer at the office?

But if I'm building my dream phone, I might as well give it the highest resolution on any smartphone at the moment: the 4K display from Sony's Xperia XZ Premium.

«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist at law firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.

Both run the company's new BlackBerry 7.0 operating system, and at 10.5 mm thick, are advertised as RIM's thinnest smartphones.

As the mighty smartphone has risen in popularity, it comes as no surprise that the number of armbands to choose from have multiplied — especially in an age when most people have their phone on them at all timeAs the mighty smartphone has risen in popularity, it comes as no surprise that the number of armbands to choose from have multiplied — especially in an age when most people have their phone on them at all timeas no surprise that the number of armbands to choose from have multiplied — especially in an age when most people have their phone on them at all times.

I make sure that I disconnect by leaving my smartphone at home or in the hotel room for as long as possible — days, if I can — and bring a notepad and pen with me instead.

And 75 percent of business travelers take at least three devices with them, with their smartphone as the primary device.

But ChildNet will likely stick with Android in the future as it is gaining more traction in the smartphone and tablet markets, said Dipak Parekh, chief financial officer at ChildNet.

A middle - aged woman in business attire is staring at the screen of her smartphone as she walks down 2nd Street in San Francisco's Financial District.

On smartphones or tablets, applications need to be at least as commonsensical, intuitive, and user - friendly as other channels — and to really hit the sweet spot for prospective candidates, you need to avoid trying to simply replicate that traditional experience online.

Many apps are still optimized for the regular 16:9 aspect ratio that most smartphones used before 2016, and some apps are slightly cut off at the bottom as a result.

As we so often hear, the ubiquity of smartphones and social media means we're all burying our heads in an electronic ether at the expense of communicating with the people who are right in front of us.

China's Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL], one of the world's fastest - growing smartphone makers, has raised $ 1.1 billion in a round of funding that cements its status as one of the world's most valuable private technology companies at a valuation of $ 45 billion.

Analyst firms have previously attributed the spiraling tablet market to factors like the rise of oversized smartphones known as phablets, a lack of innovative products, and longer upgrade cycles for consumers, if they upgrade at all.

Mobile commerce makes purchasing as simple as waving your smartphone at the register.

At one time its mapping gadgets got nearly every one from point A to point B, but the more people started using free apps such as Google Maps on their smartphones the less of these products it sold.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Smartphones are clearly time sucks, but we also tend to view them as overall productivity boosters - think of how you can check your email while you're waiting in line at the grocery store, call a cab with a couple of clicks, or Google that one key piece of information in an instant.

«As mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) continue to grow, the mobile game category will show the biggest growth due to the entertainment value provided by games compared with other app categories,» said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner.

As Uichin Lee, a professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), explains, smartphones «are usually a means of communication between people who have actual relationships.

Once aimed at a small elite with their blingy designs, luxury smartphones are being toned down as manufacturers look to broaden the appeal of their high - end devices.

Smartphone sales fell 3 percent in the March quarter compared with a year earlier, as consumers in developed countries such as the U.S. and China balk at upgrading to more expense phones.

The technology companies have contended that their virtual marketplaces, in which people act as contractors and use their own possessions to provide services to the public at the touch of a smartphone button, afford workers flexibility and freedom.

So far, none of the BlackBerry 10 devices have proven to be commercial successes, and it is unclear whether the Z30 will do better, especially as it will hit stores at around the same time as two much - anticipated smartphones from Apple, the high - end iPhone 5S and the cheaper iPhone 5C.

The company blamed reduced smartphone unit volumes in the second half of its fiscal year for the lackluster results, as well as a negative impact from the sale of lower - priced components at key Android OEMs.

The Waterloo, Ont. - based smartphone company, riding momentum in the lead - up to its BlackBerry 10 launch at the end of January, implemented a strategic review as its financial situation worsened because of declining sales in 2012.

Technically, X isn't at the helm of Project Ara and Project Tango, but Alphabet considers the Google ATAP team, who are involved in the two smartphone projects, as its moonshot tech group outside of X.

Today we take a look at the increasing role that e-commerce is expected to play in the development of China as a consuming nation, a transition that is being accelerated by the growth of shopping via smartphones and other mobile devices.

The deal would likely create new opportunities for AT&T to increase smartphone penetration and data revenues, potentially at Verizon's expense, as well as result in about $ 3 billion in annual synergies within three years of the transaction closing.

However, there are other factors at play as well, as smartphone shopping is becoming an important aspect of e-commerce around the world these days.

For Dell, the pact would strengthen its relationship with a deep - pocketed and powerful ally at a time when the PC market has stumbled, as users gravitate to smartphones and tablets.