Sentences with phrase «invested in a tablet device»

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In addition to all the money it spent to win business for its tablet chips, Intel invested a fortune to make sure that Android worked well on its processors and to make life easier for device makers that went with its chips.

Corning, based in Western New York, said last week it would «immediately» invest $ 500 million and create 1,000 new jobs in the U.S. related to medical devices — not smartphones or tablets.

For schools looking to invest in tablets, the Education Show has teamed up with The Tablet Academy to provide the «Tablet Advice Hub», a place to go for free impartial advice on the best solutions for schools, from a team of teachers with experience of embedding mobile devices in the classroom.

That's probably because of reportedly lackluster sales performance by Microsoft's latest OS so far, but still the category will grow as OEMs look to invest more in hybrid devices, sliders and tablet - style form factors that could potentially resonate better with where consumers seem to be spending their computing dollars these days.

As the much hyped iPad has everyone thinking whether they should stick to the device that is just an e-reader and is black and white or invest in a multi-functional and colorful tablet.

Of course, when you consider that you can also mirror the screen of any Android device to your television with the Fire TV (without needing to login to your Amazon account, much the same way Apple's AirPlay functionality works)-- it seems a little frivolous and unnecessary because you can just play whatever tablet games you have already invested in.

The overall premise of the device doesn't change — this is still something that works best if you're heavily invested in Amazon's products and services already — but if history is any indicator, the Fire HDX 8.9 will be a good tablet for reading books, browsing the web, and of course, watching lots of Prime Instant Video content.

Despite keeping an eye on the tablet device market, Sony is still planning to continue investing in its Reader line of eBook readers that is busy slugging it out with Amazon's Kindle and the Nook for eBook reader dominance.

The aggressive pricing makes the tablet an ideal device for anyone looking to invest in an Android slate.

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.

Barnes & Noble invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its own device, the Nook tablet, which it launched in 2009 to give itself a fighting chance against Amazon.

Although their first Android tablet has started to lose some of its initial popularity, it is clear that Amazon has a great deal invested in the idea of mobile devices integrated into their media distribution system.

If you often need to take notes while reading or are looking for a device on which to surf the Web more than very occasionally then you'll be better off investing more in a Kindle Keyboard or Kindle Touch - or a Kindle Fire, iPad or Android tablet if an E Ink display isn't important to you.

Nintendo has arguably been making unintuitive decisions with their hardware for over a decade; the decision to use a cartridge with the N64, the mini disc Gamecube, investing in technology that gamers didn't want with the Wii, the tablet control device of the Wii U.

If you have the tablet sitting in your lap it's no problem, but if you're primarily thinking about using this device as something to draw with, you might want to invest in a stand.

If you've invested in one of a few «NVIDIA Tegra Note 7» tablets, sold by other companies of course, and have been green with envy over all the attention showered on NVIDIA's SHIELD devices, then maybe its time for a change of color.