Sentences with phrase «despite slowing device»

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Despite this slow down, both Chromebooks and Windows devices saw unit growth during the first quarter while Apple continued to see both Macbook and iPad volumes decline YoY.

The reality is that despite having talked about personalized learning for more than a decade, most schools and teachers have been slow to discover its potential through the use of the social web, interactive games, and mobile devices.

Despite slow development, we have been both impressed and, frankly, a little puzzled by the way Sports Illustrated has tackled each new device, churning out unique, richly interactive editions of its magazine not every month, but every single week.

Thankfully, the DROID Charge's processor hummed along just fine despite the UI, which can slow things down just a bit on other devices.

The slow - scrolling «jitter» was a long - standing problem of the device, as it never felt as fast and smooth as its competitors despite having the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 system - on - chip.

Google Pixel 2 XL has a slow - charging issue, despite a fast charger being issued with the device.

I was impressed at how little the device slowed down, and maxing out the graphics options in Minecraft was still very playable despite how taxing it is on a device.

And yet, despite the fact that the meaningful tablet market has dwindled down to some Windows 10 devices and the iPad — and despite the fact that the iPad itself has seen slowing sales — the company's engineers are still moving full speed ahead and putting the most advanced technical hardware features it can come up with into this device.

Despite what some conspiracy theories may claim, Apple was only slowing iPhones with old batteries, and only when those batteries were unable to hold enough charge to power the device through peak performance times.

Despite backing Windows RT earlier this year, it appears that the «slower» sales of Dell's device have led to its cancelation.

Worse was when, using the manual exposure and focus ring, the device would slow the shutter to blur - inducing speeds despite the presence of ample natural light.

Despite having a pretty good reason for slowing down the devices, Apple's attempt at mitigating problems caused by li - ion batteries has proven very controversial, and public attention has turned to other smartphone makers.

Likewise, despite the success it found with laptop computers and the ThinkPad brand, Lenovo has been slow to adapt to other competitors in China like Xiaomi and Huawei, companies that have shown they're capable of putting out compelling devices at a fraction of the price of other Android OEMS.

Despite the positive job trend for healthcare overall, both the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors are facing circumstances — namely increased taxes and fees mandated by the Affordable Care Act — that may in fact slow down job growth.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.