The company is aiming at the premium end of the market, and joins an increasing number of
device makers looking to create trendy wearable gear.
This year is shaping up to be the year of digital assistants on smartphones, as
device makers look to keep pace with Apple and Amazon and the success those two companies have enjoyed with the voice - powered Siri and Alexa assistants, respectively.
Not exact matches
Medtronic (mdt), the Ireland - based medical
device maker,
looks promising in part because it's European, according to Persaud.
It highlights the opinions and experiences of IoT decision -
makers on topics that include: drivers for adoption; major challenges and pain points; stages of adoption, deployment, and maturity of IoT implementations; investment in and utilization of
devices, platforms, and services; the decision - making process; and forward -
looking plans.
Fourteen months ago, when Canadian Business first took a
look at Kobo, the company was partnering with booksellers and
device -
makers in North America and abroad; its platform would power their e-book stores and it would become, as one observer put it, the «Intel inside» for the e-reading sector.
The
maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google's Android - based
devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing out «slavish copying» of design and «
look and feel.»
If you want competitive advantages,
look no further than surgically assisted robotic
device -
maker Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG).
The following footage is a detailed
look at the Nokia Lumia 710, showing its worth as a handset and one of the two new WP7 based
devices in the Finnish phone
maker's arsenal.
Like every other Android smartphone
maker looking to offer a top - notch
device, LG is expected to build the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 into the G7 ThinQ.
It seems odd that Google has taken this design route, especially since more and more
device makers are opting for a bezel-less
look.
Chinese
device maker ZTE plans to start selling Android tablets in America this year — and it
looks like they'll come in at least two sizes.
In another sign of how grim things are
looking for the PC, The Korea Times reported Monday that officials of Samsung Electronics, the South Korean manufacturer that is the biggest phone
maker in the world, said the company would because demand was low and the
devices were unprofitable, and would instead focus on tablets and laptops.
While Microsoft may not want to encourage manufacturers to regularly make
devices with lower resolutions, there are rumblings that the company is reducing some licensing costs to convince
device makers to take a
look at producing smaller Windows 8
devices.
The two
devices, which have mostly opposite characteristics to what had been pushed by the major android tablet
makers, are now
looking to outdo their larger cousins.
Looking ahead, Google has developed a tool to help
device makers get new versions of the Android OS on their products.
Hopefully some day an eBook will
look a lot better, but today the
device makers, of which there seem likely to be fewer rather than more in the near term, have not seen fit to facilitate this.
Those familiar with the BlackBerry Bold of old, or perhaps intrigued by the BlackBerry Q10, will notice that the BlackBerry Z10
looks a lot like rival
devices from Apple, Nokia, and the Android handset
makers.
AW: One curiosity about contemporary art is that there is a terrific interest in the old languages and
devices of painting, but generally in the work of photographers and film -
makers — or artists using photography and film — but contemporary painting itself sometimes
looks back to the history and sometimes doesn't.
It's an ambitious
device from a manufacturer
looking to make a splash in the US market, but even its
makers admit that it won't be for everyone.
Gionee, a handset
maker based in China, isn't very well known, but it's
looking to make a name for itself with
devices like the $ 375 Elife S5.5.
The ZenFone 4 Max (ZC554KL) is expected to be a direct upgrade in many of those aspects, with the Taiwanese phone
maker likely
looking to release a
device that will compete in the mid-range market segment.
For people who are
looking for a serious fitness
device,
Maker recommended two of the latest watches from Garmin: The Fenix 5 or the Forerunner 935.
Because it's unadulterated, that version
looks and runs better than any of the tweaked takes on Android other phone
makers include with their
devices.
It's a small, but nice addition as
makers of smart home products
look to distinguish themselves in an increasingly crowded market for smart home
devices.
If you want to take advantage of the Moto
Maker tool, which allows you to customize the
look of the
device, you'll have to buy the Z Play through the Motorola website.
Look for Alexa's presence to expand even further as third - party
device makers start building the assistant into their own hardware.
If a hardware
maker wants, they could build a full AiO powered by an ARM chip, that's super thin,
looks gorgeous and works great as a Home Hub
device.
We take a
look at how quickly the many phone
makers (and carriers) in the Android world have been to update their
devices to Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Apple has always opposed adding backdoors to iOS, and nothing has changed, even though the Justice Department is
looking at ways to force
device makers to unlock phones part of criminal investigations.
In late June, a third - party case
maker revealed what its cases
looked like on the unannounced Galaxy Note 7, which confirmed the
device would feature a dual curved edge display and iris scanner.
If anything, that's a testament to Apple's success, which pushed other smartphone
makers to step up their games (with flagship
devices, at least — there's a steep dropoff in camera quality when you
look at low - cost Android phones).
Design guru Jony Ive, meanwhile, snickered at Motorola's Moto
Maker program that let buyers customize the
looks of their
devices by saying the company was «abdicating [their] responsibility as a designer.»
«When you
look at the standard off - the - shelf commercial smartphone, especially these days, the attack surface is enormous, and for a determined attacker it would be relatively easy to hack the
device and obtain data of any kind,» warns Bjoern Rupp, CEO of GSMK, a Berlin - based secure phone
maker.
While thin bezels have been a general trend among smartphone
makers in 2017, pundits have suggested that such a design for the Galaxy S9 could make it
look a lot like the iPhone X. Whether this means the
device would have a top notch similar to Apple's smartphone remains unknown, but sources told SamMobile that the Galaxy S9 may have a top bezel thinner than its bottom bezel.
LG's latest partnership with Hitrecord has given us a good
look at the yet - to - be-released LG V30.The phone
maker has worked with actor Joseph Gordon - Levitt over the past couple of years on promotions for its flagship
devices.
Android - powered video game consoles like the Ouya haven't exactly been a huge success, but Chinese electronics
maker Huawei is hoping to change that with Tron, a
device that
looks remarkably similar to Apple's new Mac Pro — albeit a lot smaller.
The Korean smartphone
maker would have to use the same premium
look and feel akin to Apple's iPhones for its other flagship
devices, as the market demand for expensive -
looking smartphones has forced Samsung to do so.
Other Android flagship
device makers likely will
look to capitalize on Samsung's problems as well, Stofega noted, but the opportunity will be limited for Chinese phone
makers, which face distribution challenges in the...
I think phone speakers will continue to improve and
device makers are always
looking for some new innovations to best the competition.
Not every mobile user is going to embrace the move away from the 3.5 mm audio jack, but we're clearly going to see more phones adopt that design as phone
makers look for ways to come out with more compact
devices.
On the one hand, Google could be use the app to further collect user data that's valuable to its bottom line, while Android Wear
makers could market their
devices to loyal iPhone users who aren't likely to switch platforms just to buy a good -
looking smartwatch — and some of the already announced Android Wear
devices are really gorgeous, including the Huawei Watch (hands - on here) or the LG Watch Urbane (hands - on here).
Although my previous prediction
looks a little crazy in retrospect, at the time I'd just walked out of a meeting with chip -
maker Qualcomm where their representatives had proudly shown off some tech that would make it far easier for third - party manufacturers to equip their
devices with voice assistants.
That means it
looks like the smartphone
maker is sticking to what it's known for: powerful
devices at relatively low prices.
It lets Microsoft and
device makers overhaul the
look and feel of its operating system for specific
devices, without having to rebuild it from the ground up.
Persistent rumors have suggested that Microsoft is
looking to bring a Surface Phone to the market this year, but the software
maker has consistently avoided traditional form factors for its Surface
devices.
As impressive as the slate of apps Apple showed off today
looks — and that MLB app really does
look superb — the real story will be how many app
makers develop for the Apple TV between now and when the new
device arrives in October.
Somewhat annoyingly, Dot Matrix relies on Watch
Maker for your
device to create the
look on your Android Wear watch.
Now, it
looks like the Chinese phone
maker is taking it up a notch with the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 by completely shaving off the bezels of the
device.
Google has been actively
looking to strengthen its IP portfolio in wake of lawsuits filed by patent trolls against Android
device makers.
It's not clear if this patent is related to the company's notepad
device, but the software
maker previously submitted an all - in - one PC patent that turned out to
look exactly like the Surface Studio.