Sentences with phrase «for phone makers»

This follows the FCC's recent call for phone makers to support FM radio.

So far it has been a big win for phone makers to partner with Google.

The key will be for phone makers like Samsung to come up with compelling alternatives to standard headphones.

And if a report from Bloomberg is true, Android P could make it easier for phone makers to design devices with unusual displays.

Google's introduction of Project Treble in Android Oreo should make it easier for phone makers to update their devices faster, but it remains to be seen if those efforts will be effective in the long run.

The latest Samsung Galaxy phones — and those from Sony, HTC, LG and others — will have to wait for the phone makers to issue an update and carriers to approve it.

But it's bad for phone makers.

The same goes for the phone makers themselves.

Chipmaker Spreadtrum Communications Inc. also announced a blueprint for any phone maker to make $ 25 smartphones.

Its greatest strength — the openness and ability for any phone maker to freely adopt and modify the software — is also its greatest weakness.

A handful of hurdles remain for any phone maker seeking bezel-less perfection: Chief among them, the front - facing camera, or cameras.

Most U.S. shoppers buy their phones through carriers, though, so the lack of a carrier partner for Huawei's devices has been a major obstacle for the phone maker's efforts to grow its U.S. sales.

It's hard for a phone maker to differentiate one black slab from another through software, however, yet to not try is tantamount to asking for directions — you just don't do it.

That's the big question for a phone maker that prides itself on disrupting the smartphone market by putting out lower - priced phones that still boast premier features.

Not exact matches

Blackberry sued Facebook for patent infringement, saying the social network's messaging apps infringed on the former phone maker's intellectual property related to such innovations as showing an unread message indicator on top of an icon and showing multiple incoming messages in an inbox.

Many Android phone makers have opened up that NFC capability to outside developers, but not Apple — the company is jealously reserving it solely for Apple Pay.

The Korean phone maker is selling the S9 starting at $ 720 and the S9 + for $ 840.

As the New York Times pointed out just before the Consumer Electronics Show started in January, Microsoft in particular was getting rave reviews for its new Windows Phones, a trend not usually associated with the storied software maker.

«Proving that a device is durable is essential to convince people to pay more for a phone,» said Francisco Jeronimo, senior research director for European mobile devices at IDC, which in 2016 surveyed phone makers, retailers and repair centers around the world about smartphone issues.

The digitization of cars and the whole Internet of Things story — phones talking to thermostats and so on — is a positive for semiconductor makers.

Speck Products, makers of protective cases for phones, tablets and laptops, is one brand that dove headfirst into advertising deals with Nerdist.

Google and HTC have agreed that the search giant will acquire part of the Taiwanese gadget maker's phone division for $ 1.1 billion, the companies said in a joint statement Wednesday night.

Save for Samsung and LG devices, OnePlus is just about the only phone maker left that hasn't moved to either USB C - based or wireless audio — Apple, Google, HTC, Motorola and others have removed the headphone jack from their 2017 flagships.

Another player's father, a sales rep for AltiGen Communications, a maker of Internet phone systems in Fremont, Calif., told him that AltiGen could outfit those 12 workers for less than $ 20,000, including installation, training, and service.

That can't be said for most other Android phone makers.

Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with even smarter Internet - connected watches and other wireless gadgets as they wrestle for dominance at the world's biggest mobile fair starting tomorrow.

The company that has built and lost fortunes making paper, computer monitors and, more famously, mobile phones and networks, is buying connected - devices maker Withings for $ 192 million) to aid its push into digital health technology.

Instead, the company gives its operating software to phone makers like Samsung for free, then makes money by selling ads, apps and other media on its platform.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.

There's plenty of blame to go around here — the (mostly) no - name cable makers for peddling junk, retailers like Amazon for allowing it be sold, the USB Implementers Forum for not getting the word out all that well — but the end result is anyone with a USB - C device having to take absurd precautions just to ensure they can use older accessories or spare cables without blowing up their phone.

As noted yesterday, the Justice Department is investigating Huawei for breaking Iran sanctions, potentially threatening the Chinese phone - maker's ongoing access to Android.

Chen's piece really descends into wackiness with the suggestion that app makers should be forced to make software for all phone platforms, not just Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

BlackBerry is also in favour of imposing new rules that would require app makers to create software for all phone manufacturers.

The Chinese phone maker ventures into the laptop biz with two sleek new machines, the more powerful of which should be able to offer enough power for gaming.

In April the federal government banned technology sales to Chinese phone maker ZTE Corp. for seven years.

The announcement came just a week after Samsung SDI, South Korea's leading battery maker, unveiled plans to recycle cobalt from used mobile phones and develop lithium - ion batteries with minimum content of the metal, or no cobalt at all, as a way to offset soaring prices for the silver - grey commodity.

Giant Chinese smart phone maker Xiaomi has filed documents that put it on course for the world's biggest IPO this year.

Windows Phone 7, a replacement unveiled a year ago by Ballmer for the outdated Windows Mobile operating system, has only been on sale since October through a few handset makers including HTC and Samsung.

Motorola, which has been in existence for 80 years, is one of the oldest mobile phone makers on the market.

The world's largest maker of phones and memory chips said last week investing in BYD would bolster Samsung's semiconductor business for cars.

Unless you create or film videos for a living, most of the footage of on - track action that F1 fans put online will be a bit shaky, wobbly, poor quality, filmed from a phone or chucked into Movie Maker.

Most major smart phone — makers — including Samsung, Nokia and HTC — are backing the technology for its ability to turn their devices into mobile wallets, with which users can make purchases and digitally store boarding passes and coupons.

Two of the biggest aero engine makers — Rolls - Royce in the UK and General Electric in the US — did not return phone calls or emails asking for comment on if, how and when they plan to establish safe thresholds.

Maybe we will see some type of standard set for all radio makers and or cell phones.

At both Phones 4u and Tesco Well - known maker of low - cost devices Huawei has announced their new Blaze handset will be sold for just # 99 next month, with the poplar high - street phone retailer Phones 4u and Supermarket giant Tesco.

Mobile World Congress 2011: The latest MIFI, phone and a tablet are on the way Chinese telecoms device makers Huawei announced their upcoming series of mobile products for the quarter at MWC in Barcelona, with the IDEOS X3 phone, IDEOS S7 tablet, E586 MIFI and the HiLink E173 dongle.

No longer just for the Americans Taiwanese mobile phone maker High Tech Computer Corporation has announced their once - only America sold 3D mobile phone for the UK, in the HTC Evo 3D.

One of computer maker that entering phone market, Asus has officially announced its latest tablet for US operator, Verizon Wireless.

for the first time outside of Windows Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has unveiled the next update to the Symbian ^ 3 phone operating system, known as the codename «Belle», will feature free Microsoft Office applications.