Sentences with phrase «first smartphone were»

Maybe if BlackBerry 10 and its feted first smartphone were to arrive in the first half of this year, we might be inclined to think differently.

His first smartphone was a BlackBerry but

A year after their first smartphone was introduced, Finnish technology company Jolla has successfully funded their IndieGogo project aimed to create a tablet.

Its first smartphone was the Yureka, and since then the company has launched a host of devices, with the most recent being the Yunicorn.

My first smartphone was a bb 8100.

His first smartphone was an HTC Legend, and he's been tinkering and playing with Android ever since.

I» m an Android person, my first smartphone was the Moto Atrix, and I currently still use the Note 4 because frankly I like to remove my batteries when they die, but I also know the future, is here and water resistant, non removable batteries and headphone jacks are all going by the wayside.

Razer's first smartphone is going to receive its first major OS update in late April, and according to a recent tweet by the company, the Razer Phone will skip the first version of Oreo and will make the jump directly to Android 8.1 Oreo.

At launch, Essential's first smartphone was priced at $ 1050 outright and $ 290 on a two - year Premium Plus plan.

Google's first smartphone is a great first step as the company finally gets serious about hardware.

August 5 is going to be a great day for all Android smartphone lovers as Android Nougat rolls out and the first smartphone is not LG Nexus 5.

His first smartphone was a BlackBerry but he has since become a loyal Android user.

Razer's first smartphone is now officially on sale in the United States and can be ordered directly from the company's website.

My first smartphone was Micromax canvas2 colours and I have used it to the maximum no complaints or issues.

Razer's first smartphone is expected to be announced on Nov. 1 and it looks like the handset's internal specs have already been outed.

The online retailer's first smartphone is designed to make the online shopping experience smoother.

Not exact matches

And if it weren't for Motorola's 1973 invention of the first mobile phone, you might not have that smartphone sitting in your hand right now.

For instance, a keyboard model will be the first smartphone to emerge under the Foxconn agreement after the failed attempt at the touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 earlier this year.

The first is Project ScanaFlo, an early diagnostic tool that uses the smartphone as a urine - analysis reader to check for pregnancy complications, gestational diabetes, and kidney failure.

Apple Watch requires an iPhone to function, so it makes sense the first step is to pair it with your smartphone.

«Thanks to smartphones we live in a mobile first world, and messaging is the killer app,» he said, «much to the benefit of Snapchat, the mobile messaging app with the rather old - fashioned business model ready and willing to take the place of TV.»

BlackBerry's first quarter results for fiscal 2016, released this morning, show BlackBerry is becoming less of a smartphone firm and more of a software company.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

At the first event in the Steve Jobs Theater, the tech giant is hoping not one — but three — new devices will have consumers digging for their wallets to get their hands on a new smartphone.

China's smartphone shipments experienced a record fall in the first quarter of 2018, but demand is expected to pick up soon.

Huawei hails itself as the first mobile manufacturer to introduce a dedicated AI chip for smartphones.

The first is the question of whether consumers will be willing to pay extra for something they're already getting through their smartphones.

Heins said RIM plans to use its existing BlackBerry 7 line to upgrade feature phone users to their first smartphones in overseas markets where the brand is still wildly popular.

Other music players, smartphones and tablet computers were first to market, but the devices did not enthrall consumers until Apple imbued them with its magic touch.

First - time smartphone buyers are likely to opt for low - cost models, putting further pressure on RIM's margins.

The money is going into the first product, a transmitter that will automatically recharge smartphones, scheduled for release in 2016.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

The network will harness 4G and 5G bandwidths simultaneously (dual connectivity) and will be ready for the introduction of the first 5G smartphones in the first half of 2019.

There's been plenty of hype about virtual and augmented reality gaming this year with the recent arrival of first - generation headsets from Facebook's Oculus unit and smartphone maker HTC.

According to reports, the iPhone 8 could also be the first Apple smartphone to offer a facial - scanning feature to verify a person's identity and allow them access to the device's software.

& # 9660 Earlier this year, when Microsoft killed its new line of Kin smartphones in less than two months, its own employees were among the first to admit the Redmond, Wash. - based company had screwed up.

Scientific confirmation that spending time with your smartphones late at night is contributing to a national epidemic of undersleep might be the final nail in the coffin for your evening email or text habit, but Johnson is hardly the first to urge entrepreneurs and others to put down their phones in the evenings.

I'm amazed by how many people check their smartphones (others their tablets) first thing in the morning.

Affordable unlocked phones are much more powerful than they used to be, and any of our top picks would make an excellent first smartphone for a kid or young student who just needs a reliable cheap phone.

«If we were at the thickness that was introduced with the first smartphone, your phone wouldn't break in a normal drop event,» said John Bayne, vice president and general manager of Gorilla Glass at Corning, the 167 - year - old glass maker whose Gorilla 5 offering runs about 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm thick.

The VR experience resembles common first - person video games, partly because it's powered by the Unity game engine, which is increasingly used by developers to build smartphone, PC, and VR games.

But earlier this year, a separate report from Counterpoint Research found that the iPhone was not the top selling smartphone in China in 2016, the first time Apple had been unseated since 2012.

Recent reports claim Apple is working on an iPhone with touchless gesture control and / or a curved screen, while its main rival is working on the first foldable Samsung Galaxy X and a Samsung wearable that wraps around our wrists and can be configured into an upright position to be used like a smartphone.

Because while its first version was critically acclaimed for both its hardware and software, it has not made much of a dent in the U.S. smartphone market after launching last October.

Gorilla Glass, which has helped Corning corner roughly 40 percent of the display glass market (Japanese competitors Nippon Electric Glass and Asahi Glass hold a 25 percent share each), has been around since smartphones first shipped with touchscreens and Apple debuted the iPhone roughly a decade ago.

Through the end of 2015 and first part of 2016, the best smartphone camera in the world was the iPhone 6s Plus, and we compared every new camera to that standard.

It also «forecasts that the impact of smartphone and, especially, media tablet adoption will be so great that the number of users accessing the Internet through PCs will first stagnate and then slowly decline.

After releasing the iPod it started manufacturing smartphones, tablets and now are releasing its first wearable technology, the Apple Watch.

As India launches the first smartphone into space, critics are questioning how a nation with so many people living in poverty should spend money to expand a space program.