OnePlus recently announced the successor to its popular OnePlus One smartphone, describing the second
generation device as another «flagship killer».
Android 4.4 KitKat has not yet rolled out onto the Nexus 4, but Google says the previous -
generation device as well as the 3G Nexus 7 models will soon update.
Some students use the speech -
generation devices as a backup to signing or to conversation that is unintelligible to the uninitiated listener.
Amazon has been suspected of selling previous
generation devices as «refurbished» regardless of their actual condition in order to drum up some last minute interest and clear out existing inventories.
Meanwhile HUAWEI release HUAWEI Porsche Design smartphones every year, with a starkly different design each time, allowing anyone to identify users of the past
generation devices as outdated.
At the same time, however, fans are starting to worry about the company's trend of ditching previous -
generation devices as soon as a new model comes along, and not keeping its promises.
Not exact matches
Generation Z will be a completely social and mobile generation, relying on mobile devices almost entirely for content consumption, browsing and shopping, as well as social media for interacting wit
Generation Z will be a completely social and mobile
generation, relying on mobile devices almost entirely for content consumption, browsing and shopping, as well as social media for interacting wit
generation, relying on mobile
devices almost entirely for content consumption, browsing and shopping,
as well
as social media for interacting with friends.
Younger, more tech - savvy
generations are often seen
as more apt to shop online or on mobile
devices, and recent statistics identify men
as the new power shoppers.
When Microsoft announced its next
generation gaming console in May, it billed the
device as the one - box solution for all your entertainment needs.
But Jackson argues a shift is underway because next
generation technology is allowing near - console quality gaming to be done via chips on
devices as small
as a smartphone or tablet; coupled with digital distribution via cloud or streaming, it calls into question the need for a console in the first place.
Says Piers Harding - Rolls, head of games at U.K. - based IHS Screen Digest, in an e-mail, «I expect to see increasing downloads over this
generation and on to the next
generation of
devices as it is in the interest of console manufacturers to act
as a retailer.»
Prince said he can imagine a future in which Cloudflare's apps are
as disruptive
as Java or Apple, creating a new
generation of applications that run on networks instead of
devices.
The fifth
generation of mobile tech, more commonly known
as 5G, is critical for technologies such
as augmented reality, autonomous cars, virtual reality and connected
devices, or IoT.
Furthermore,
as if those weren't enough bad news for the quarter, the Canadian firm also said then that it was delaying the launch of
devices running on its next -
generation BlackBerry 10 (BB10) mobile operating system.
«The plans seems to place substantial emphasis on the set top box
as the primary
device and focal point of the next
generation US network.
Video baby monitors such
as the VTech VM343 have kept pace with advancing technology and now offer high quality sound and video missing from older
generation devices.
The majority of the younger
generation take smartphone ownership
as a real no - brainer with all the apps and services that are available via this type of
device.
As people who live in a
generation of texting and email, we are all guilty on some level of spending a good chunk of our existence attached to a tech
device.
If a company could commercialize the adaptive optics
as an add - on to OCT, imagine a new
generation of
devices allowing volumetric retinal imaging with high sensitivity.
As computer chips approach the physical limits of miniaturization and power - hungry processors drive up energy costs, scientists are looking to a new crop of exotic materials that could foster a new
generation of computing
devices that promise to push performance to new heights while skimping on energy consumption.
They can also be applied to cover glass on crystalline silicon modules and even third
generation devices such
as organic or perovskite
devices.
Hu and his team have been exploring different types of wood
as solar steam
generation devices.
Yet
as the first
generation of photovoltaic panels approach the end of their useful life, the prospect of these
devices ending up in landfill threatens to tarnish their eco-friendly credentials.
Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have been working
as part of an international team to develop a new process, which could lead to a new
generation of high - definition (HD), paving the way for brighter, lighter and more energy efficient TVs and smart
devices.
Most existing thermoelectric
devices are based on rare, expensive and unstable materials such
as bismuth telluride, making them unsuitable for widespread use in energy
generation — but Peidong Yang «s team at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a cheap alternative in silicon.
An author of that paper, Dr Maja Cassidy, said: «Here at Station Q Sydney we are building the next
generation of
devices that will use quasiparticles known
as Majorana fermions
as the basis for quantum computers.»
The improvements in the lithium - ion batteries offered by NREL's approach also can make a difference in portable consumer electronics, such
as laptops, tablets, cell phones, and portable media,
as well
as the stationary energy storage
devices that will become increasingly important
as more variable -
generation renewable energy enters the grid.
A team at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a novel way to build what many see
as the next
generation memory storage
devices for portable electronic
devices including smart phones, tablets, laptops and digital cameras.
This energy barrier could prove useful in designing next
generation electronic
devices, such
as vertical tunneling field effect transistors, Robinson said.
Led by Dr Yang Hyunsoo, the team developed a new
device structure useful for the next
generation MRAM chip which can potentially be applied to enhance the user experience in consumer electronics, including personal computers and mobile
devices such
as laptops and mobile phones.
She says that there may be practical applications in the future — a commentary accompanying the paper suggests that the method could aid in the development of technologies such
as molecular wires, atom - thick conductors that could help shrink electronic
devices — but that their result concerns «extremely fundamental» physics that might be just
as valuable for developing quantum intuition in the next
generation of physicists.
Through the Rensselaer cMDIS, Meunier and his team are able to develop the potential of new materials such
as phosphorene to serve in future
generations of computers and other
devices.
Professor Georges Gielen, Vice Rector of Science, Engineering and Technology at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, said the next
generation of electronics, including wireless sensor networks and other tiny
devices envisioned
as part of the «Internet of things,» require low - power, high performance chips.
It combines the individual components such
as audio encoding, data applications and signaling management,
as well
as multiplex
generation in a single
device.
Thin sheets of diamond, grown -LCB- rom a low - pressure gas and doped with impurities, may serve
as the basis for a new
generation of electronic
devices
«This breakthrough holds substantial promise
as the base technology for the application of the next -
generation solar cells,
as well
as various IoT
devices and displays,» says Professor Jin Young Kim.
As Microsoft's tablet efforts will soon resurface in a next -
generation device, Redmond should pay heed to what worked and what didn't in Surface's initial incarnation.
The first
generation of such a
device may be available
as soon
as next year.
Co-Directors of the Stony Brook University Cerebrovascular and Stroke Center, Henry Woo, MD, and David Fiorella, MD, PhD, have also been instrumental in pioneering treatments and
devices for stroke such
as the newest
generation of stentriever
devices and aspiration catheters to remove blood clots from the brain.
Ordonez, Hayashi, and a team of researchers from SSC Pacific, in collaboration with the University of Hawai ′ i at Mānoa, have been developing novel graphene
devices as part of a Navy Innovative Science and Engineering (NISE)- funded effort to imbue the Navy with inexpensive, lightweight, flexible graphene - based
devices that can be used
as next -
generation sensors and wearable
devices.
Nadrian C. Seeman, of New York University in the U.S., is the founding father of structural DNA nanotechnology, a field that exploits the structural properties of DNA to use it
as a raw material for the next
generation of nanoscale circuits, sensors, and biomedical
devices.
Flexible ultrahigh resolution displays have benefits for next -
generation mobile electronics, such
as point - of - care medical diagnostic
devices.
Concretely, based on basic research on nanoscale materials, such
as atomic and molecular transport and chemical reaction processes, polarization and excitation of charge and spin and superconducting phenomena, we are conducting research on atomic switches, artificial synapses, molecular
devices, new quantum bits, neural network - type network circuits, next -
generation devices, high sensitivity integrated molecular sensors and other new applied technologies.
This discovery opens the path for industry, such
as ICT and pharmaceutical, to cheaply print a host of electronic
devices from solar cells to LEDs with applications from interactive smart food and drug labels to next -
generation banknote security and e-passports.
Using this version of the
device, which has been dubbed the first -
generation Sensor Fish, PNNL researchers measured the various forces juvenile salmon experience
as they pass through dams.
Abstract: Carbon nanotubes bound for electronics need to be
as clean
as possible to maximize their utility in next -
generation nanoscale
devices, and scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have found a way to remove contaminants from the nanotubes.
«If nanotubes are to be the next -
generation lightweight conductor, then consistent results, batch - to - batch and sample - to - sample, are needed for
devices such
as motors and generators
as well
as power systems.»
«Blind Sight: The Next
Generation of Sensory Substitution Technology» features
devices that use musical tones, vibration, puffs of air and electrical stimulation of the tongue — among other methods — to assist blind people
as they navigate their environment.
Rodrigo Martins pioneer research work in the field of amorphous silicon, belonging to the second
generation of researchers working in the Dundee group; world pioneer oxides
as semiconductors and one of the inventors of the paper electronics, being the authors of the first CMOS
device produced on and with paper.
These IC chips are expected to be in high global demand
as they will be used in the next
generation of consumer electronic
devices such
as personal computers, smart phones and tablets.