Sentences with phrase «device than a laptop»

It is debatable whether the tablet is any more a mobile device than a laptop with a WiFi or 3G connection.

Not exact matches

Rather than build a totally compromised device, a middling tablet mixed with a middling laptop, it built a kickass laptop and then sought to find ways it could add onto the experience.

It's a weird hybrid device that costs more than any tablet, but doesn't necessarily do anything better than a laptop.

While the laptops are relatively low - powered compared to competitors, Google's smartphone has similar specs to other rival high - end devices and is in some cases better (it has a higher screen resolution than the iPhone 5S, for example).

The ban also means that, for the foreseeable future, travelers booked on more than 125 affected flights a day to the U.S. and U.K. will have to put devices such as tablets, e-readers, cameras, laptops, portable DVD players, and video games in checked baggage.

Light - based or photonic computers have the potential to run at least 20 times faster than your laptop, not to mention the fact that they won't produce heat or suck up energy like existing devices.

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

MLB.com's website, meanwhile, is being accessed more from mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, than from desktop PCs and laptops.

As you might assume, the x360 is actually more of a two - in - one than a straight up laptop, so you can actually flip the screen all the way around to use the device as a tablet if you so choose.

Load up on apps With more and more power and functionality packed into devices — eliminating the need for the average roadie to carry much else than a smartphone and a tablet or laptop — apps are a critical part of the mobile toolset.

While the vast majority of professionals would never access a business account from something other than their own (or company's) devices, that doesn't mean a misplaced or stolen smartphone or laptop couldn't be used to access your organization's page, or that someone wouldn't try to hack their way in.

However bear in mind that your data may be less secure sitting on your laptop than it is on Facebook's servers, if your device is hacked.

Recent and repeated visits to the mobile pages for other leading House and Senate candidates (using both an iPhone 4s and an iPhone 5) found more than half had trouble spots — from cluttered sites designed to be viewed on a much larger device like a laptop or desktop to multiple - step fundraising forms that can discourage a potential donor from hitting the final send button.

White remains cautious, though, and would like to see more work looking at whether some of those 10 watts might be coming from the piezoelectric properties of the tantalum oxide, rather than from its interaction with the droplets.Ten watts would be enough to power a mobile phone, a military radio, a GPS device, even a small laptop, Krupenkin says.

And instead of a storage device, the images (text or pictures) could be permanently displayed on these layers even with the power off, so that a document hundreds of pages long could be stored on the display screens themselves, and portable enough to carry around, no bigger than a small laptop computer.

You won't get anything less than complete satisfaction on IWantU, which is available on all devices — from laptops to desktops to smartphones to tablets.

MB: Mobile dating will grow to be bigger than online dating, simply because people will eventually interface with the internet on mobile device more often th on laptop or PCs.

With more people using the Internet on mobile devices than desktops or laptops, the world of online dating is starting to blend into traditional dating to form the latest craze: mobile dating.

Started follows the journeys of two DJs as a framing device: Carl Cox, the legendary U.K. jockey who's been spinning records since the Eighties, and Martin Garrix, a teen Dutch wunderkind who headlines major festivals and represents the new era of rock - star DJs who work more with laptops more than actual vinyl.

A mobile Learning Management System lends this very flexibility to learning; it gives learners the choice to learn on a mobile device, while being «mobile», read «on - the - go» too, rather than being stuck to a desktop or a laptop.

Plus, her schoolwork is viewable offline and is accessible on one device that's «much lighter than a laptop.»

In theory, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs in schools are a great idea; students can use their own tablets, laptops and smartphones in the classroom, and can take advantage of a wider range of apps and programs than they might be able to normally access in school.

The imminent release of smartbooks — devices that look and act like laptops, but are scaled - up cellphones rather than scaled - down computers — will further empower this emerging infrastructure.

Whether via laptop computers, advanced mobile devices, Wi - Fi or enhanced 4G wireless networks, we are more connected than ever to everyone we know.

Use of the app for these purposes acknowledges that learning — whether for academic credit, personal needs, or professional development — can occur any time and any place and via devices other than traditional desktop or laptop computers.

It's a chance to disconnect my sons from their devices and talk to them in more than 140 - character sentences or Snapchat messages, but on a long car trip, when a laptop can melt away the miles with mindless entertainment and maintain a lifeline to friends, an Internet connection is a small miracle.

There are plenty of places to charge your smart devices, with up to 12 power points dotted around the interior, as well as two traditional power sockets to charge laptops and other devices that need more juice than a USB port can provide.

While the device's ship date hasn't been finalized and could still change, people briefed on the matter said the new product will come with a 10 to 11 - inch touch screen — which would make it closer in size to Apple's line of MacBook laptops than its smart phone.

If anyone needed further proof of tablet devices being more in vogue than the traditional PCs, here it is: theBBC iPlayer app has seen almost a million downloads (941,000 to be precise) on tablet devices from Dec 21 til the end of the year, surpassing the traditional desktops and laptops for the first time ever.

Consumers have had enough with the desktops and laptops and nothing is more exciting now than the new sleek tablet devices.

Tablets are even handier than laptop or notebook devices.

So far in 2013, Kobo's customers, either on smartphone, laptop, tablet, desktop computer, or eReading devices, have turned more than 1.3 - billion pages, logging more than 10 - million hours of reading time in the process.

Some people opt to read on their laptops using a software ereader rather than buying a separate device.

The problem here was that the device was about twice as thick as any laptop in the market, weighed the same as a laptop but offered significantly less functionality than a laptop.

The iPad is already the best device you can have with you during college lectures and is more portable and compact than a laptop while also having a battery that keeps going on and on.

To that end, it's hard to recommend the Fire HD to a savvy user who may want to «hack» his or her tablet and use it more like a laptop than a media device.

True, Microsoft might have dreamt much more than was conducive as what they were looking at is a device that would perhaps be a replacement of the laptops though eventually what Apple has come out with is a device that scores heavily on practicality and mobility that has gone on to win people's heart and mind.

Two interesting facts that came from the demographics data of the survey showed that more students are using PC laptops (71 %) than Mac brand devices (20 %), and that more students do their studying on a smartphone (36 %) than a tablet or computer (22 %).

The game - changing Asus Eee Pad Transformer combined a great standalone tablet with a keyboard dock that not only let you type properly but also doubled the device's battery life and gave you such connectivity gems as full - size USB ports and a regular SD card slot, essentially turning the tablet into a mini laptop that had a better screen and lasted longer on the go than any netbook.

1080p is perfectly fine and this is the resolution of most 13 — 15 ″ laptops; meaning that this device will have more density than what most are used to in a larger - than - phone sized screen

Part tablet, part laptop and running Android 4.2.2 and Windows 8.1, we're sure a few of you are more than interested in this hybrid device.

I've encountered it once, when downloading Niteynight light app, I was able to circumvent the error by actually going into play.google.com online through a browser on my laptop, searching for the app and being signed in, installed it through the website rather than the app, you just choose your device off a list and it will instruct it to download.

I personally never found balancing a Surface device on my lap for typing any more awkward than with a traditional laptop, and the kickstand's edge has been rounded out to help prevent it from digging into your legs, an issue with previous Surface Pro models.

I didn't test it extensively, because it's much tougher to do a run - down test of a device that's meant to be used on and off throughout the day than a standard laptop.

The experience is better on a full laptop, but some situations like a crowded airline bus, while walking down the street or in a restaurant might call for using a Kindle rather than a bigger device, such as a laptop, or a smaller device, like a cell phone.

At the end of the day, I have read books in part on my laptop, desktop, and phone, but overwhelmingly read them on the Kindle itself because that dedicated device does that (and admittedly little else) better than all of them.

Google's recent introduction of its Chromebook range and new lower price point for entry level notebook devices have hurt tablet sales across established Western markets, with consumers opting to replace their laptops rather than investing in a luxury tablet which does pretty much everything their shiny smartphone can.

But without external input devices, the tablet would likely remain a niche product rather than a laptop replacement.

This might be because, as previously noted, owners of e-reading devices are less likely than all e-book readers to read their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer — and those who primarily read their e-books on a computer may not consider this arrangement to be as convenient for pre-bedtime reading as those who rely on their (more portable) dedicated e-reading devices.

I think it's pretty self - evident that it can win that comparison, but Plastic Logic didn't devote much time to another question: Why is the Que better than another device that 100 % of its target market owns, uses, and carries — a laptop computer?