Sentences with phrase «longer than a device»

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We're proud that Apple products are known for their durability, and for holding their value longer than our competitors» devices.

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled its long - anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that transplants the features of an iPhone onto a smaller screen that's never more than an arm's length away.

In an earlier computing era — not really so long ago — a beautiful hardware device with smartly tailored software to run it was a market - shaking innovation, and no one did that better than Apple: Its combined expertise in hardware design and human interface design were unmatched.

«By using vortices of air rather than simple air jets, the device can provide a tactile sensation over longer distances and with much greater accuracy,» the report says.

Android device makers took a long time to catch up to Apple, but it's now more common than not to see good if not great cameras.

A California company called Dexcom connected a continuous glucose monitor (a device that had been around for more than a decade) wirelessly to a smartphone (or smart watch), allowing the user to read, plot, and share blood sugar levels with anyone, at five - minute intervals, all day long — and sending an alert when patients were at risk.

For starters, Bluetooth has a much longer range than NFC, as it can reach up to 50 meters compared to NFC's need to have the two devices centimeters away from each other.

You can set the device to sound an alarm when the engine RPM exceeds a certain number, when idling longer than a certain period of time, when breaking a specified speed limit, when it senses dangerous driving on the part of the operator, when the seatbelt is not used and when reversing.

As long as Apple continues to sell around the same number of devices each year — 217 million iPhones, more than 40 million iPads and almost 20 million Macs in fiscal 2017 — it can sell users of these devices a growing list of services that integrate tightly with the hardware.

Fitbit CEO James Park has long talked about transforming the company into a healthcare business rather than simply a device seller.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

Rather than juxtaposing two different lens strengths in a single frame, Peyghambarian's device has special lenses that switch from close - to long - range viewing at the touch of a button.

Engineers wanted blue and true green because with those colors, along with the red they already had, they could build fabulous things, such as a a white - light - emitting device as much as 12 times more efficient and 12 times longer - lasting than an ordinary lightbulb.

And I think that Apple is always searching for fewer physical buttons on the devices because they think they're clunky; small [as] possible, as thin as possible, as light as possible; and with battery life — which causes weight, so that's what they're always fighting against with battery life — that will be longer than any sort of normal session you have with that product.

Animal trials suggest that these sensors could last for a year or so before they stop working, which is longer than many other current devices being tested.

And because photonic chips shuttle photons instead of electrons, mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile devices.

He selected 37 stalactites for their pitch, sanded all but two down to perfect their tone and then attached a rubber mallet device, measuring more than a foot long, next to each stalactite.

And in the longer term, they could lead to bright, ultrafast, short - wavelength lasers that are much more compact, and perhaps even electronic devices that operate millions of times faster than current technology, says David Reis, a co-author of the report and deputy director of the Stanford PULSE Institute, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford.

«A few days of modulation doping are sufficient for many avenues of scientific inquiry, and for some device applications, the rewritability we can provide is needed more than long term stability,» he says.

«For example, the elapsed time between light absorption and emission can be extended to be more than 100 times longer compared to conventional quantum dots, which opens the way towards optical memories and smart pixel new devices.

It's really a long article designed to be read on mobile devices rather than a traditional book, Cappelli tells me.

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.

Itâ $ ™ s an example of the kinds of insights that can be obtained from implantable electrical stimulation devices, which can record signals from seizures inside the brain over long periods of time (more than a year).

WEDNESDAY, May 23, 2012 (Health.com)-- The small fraction of women who choose intrauterine devices (IUDs) or under - skin implants as their preferred method of birth control may be on to something: According to a new study, these long - acting forms of contraception are 20 times better at preventing unintended pregnancies than the Pill and other short - term methods.

IUDs are reversible, long - lasting (up to 10 years), and highly effective (more than 99 percent fail - safe)-- which makes these devices a good option whether you're in your 20s or your 40s, says Dr. White.

Although both types of external load were variable, the machine knee extension would still have involved a larger contraction at longer muscle lengths than the isokinetic device.

iPad users also visit 126 % more pages and typically stay on GlobalPeronals.co.uk sites, including Singles365.com and FlirtFix.com, 119 % longer than other mobile devices, beating out the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

The June 2014 study found that one third of Neu.de users now access the site via mobile devices; mobile dating is perceived as non-binding, with only 40 % of singles looking for long - term relationships; one fifth of all singles are using their mobile devices to flirt while at work; and singles are growing impatient, with 96 % expecting a response from potential dates within 24 hours, and more than one third wanting a reply within an hour.

In less than two hours (although it feels considerably longer), writer / director Susannah Grant cobbles together nearly every imaginable plot, element, and device except the kitchen sink (although she manages to get the bathtub in there).

It thinks more of these overlapping visuals than it should and continues to employ the device long after the novelty has worn off.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

Despite my having successfully assembled a couple of these devices already, the build phase is taking much longer than anticipated.

Half of the problem While at BESA, we continue to encourage schools to consider the total cost of ownership and not just the initial price tag, it is important to remember that there are lower cost tablet devices available, rather than having to pay the premium price tag for the big name consumer brands; some offer schools the ability to purchase twice as many devices for the same cost of another brand and as long as they are BESA members they are more likely to be good products.

Educators have long seen a need for portable devices that have enough power to accommodate students» needs for word processing and research on the Internet's World Wide Web, yet which are available at prices much lower than those of current portable computers.

She longs for an assessment that relies on more than just written problems, that could capture the more diverse skills visible in her classroom and valued in the workplace, such as artistic talent, computer savvy, and the know - how to diagnose and fix problems with mechanical devices.

The catalyst acts as a mixture averaging device so the after catalyst mixture is smoother over time and therefore gives a better look at mixture control for adjustment of long term fuel trim than the pre-cat oxygen sensor.

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.

yes, eink lasts a lot longer, but this will be more a professional device than a casual device and as such battery life of a day is sufficient in most use scenarios.

This is how the e-reader market is likely to go too: The device's only real benefits are the e-ink screens, which are marketed as easier on the eye than tablet PC's LCD units, and longer battery life.

I bet you that it won't be long before Globacom Nigeria and the rest follow suit and when that happens, the Nigerian populace that love their cheap internet would have no option than to get a BlackBerry device.

Based on both the recently leaked image and the photographs released by the regulator, the BlackBerry KEY2 will still retain the physical keyboard of its predecessor, although it seems that the device will sport a display with an aspect ratio longer than 3:2.

But iSuppli predicts that the price drop will only entice consumers to buy e-readers in the short - term, while the longer - term future of the devices is likely to be more niche than initially expected.

But, like Pogue, he objects to the weight of the device, «Curling up in bed was more comfortable with a 10.2 - ounce Kindle than with the weightier iPad,» and the backlit screen, which may prove tiring when reading a long book.

Images from the Chinese telecommunications regulator TENAA and leaked renders show that the upcoming handset will likely retain the physical keyboard of its predecessor, the BlackBerry KEYone, although it is likely that the display of the newer device will have an aspect ratio longer than 3:2.

With the advent of a plethora of ereading devices, the conversation was no longer about whether such devices will be viable replacements for books, but about ways to make them vastly better than books ever were.

If a question mark appears on top of your Kindle Fire's battery icon, this is a warning from the device that it isn't properly detecting or displaying the amount of power left in the battery, and that your battery may run out or last longer than what is indicated on the battery icon.

Lighter and brighter, with crisp, sharp text, no full page flashing and no ads, our redesigned reading experience is more immersive than ever making the device a must - have item for long - form readers.

Now I can read much longer on a phone than if I didn't have this device.

For the long - distance mom relationship, an e-gift certificate specific to the device that she already owns or is receiving this year adds a little more personal touch than just a plain gift card.

However, the device continues to be dogged by battery life issues, which lasts no longer than 7 hours.