Sentences with phrase «many gadget makers»

It's a really bad time to be a gadget maker, if the steady raft of poor sales reports is anything to go by.

Fitbit and Chinese low - cost gadget maker Xiaomi tied for first place with 3.6 million wearable devices shipped in the quarter.

That's what gadget makers call an opportunity.

The company largely relied on other gadget makers to build smartwatches running its software, but as it did with phones, may have to step in and make its own products.

Two more virtual reality headsets are hitting the market from Taiwanese gadget maker HTC and Facebook's Oculus VR business unit.

The gadget maker is seeing the number of active users of its devices grow and the number of hours of streaming media they're watching jump markedly.

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.

Nokia kick - started its digital health business about a year and a half ago with the $ 170 million ($ 200 million in today's currency) purchase of French smart health gadget maker Withings, which had made a name for itself in activity trackers, smart scales, blood pressure monitors and other health and fitness devices.

HONG KONG — A gadget maker.

Gadget makers often rely on piezoelectricity — the ability that some solids have to produce voltage when pressure is applied to them — to power tiny embedded systems, such as a BlackBerry Storm 2's touch screen or a car's airbag sensor.

Good options exist, including some offered by gadget makers themselves, like Apple.

If they do become a hit, expect more gadget makers to follow suit.

DreamWorks Animation's quest to chase down Pixar calls to mind gadget makers» pursuit of Apple.

Apple was recently found tracking the location of its iPhone users, but it doesn't appear to be the only gadget maker consumers using its devices.

Apple Inc. is refreshing its iPad lineup and slashing the price of its Mac computers ahead of the holiday shopping season, as it faces an eroding tablet market share and growing competition from rival gadget makers.

Luxury gadget maker Amosu gave the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 a very expensive makeover with the Limited Diamond edition, of which only 20 were made.

As we watch company after company announce that they are bringing a slate to the market, it is clear that gadget makers are pushing this form factor as the next big thing.

The OS is Google's Android 1.6 with the gadget makers assuring an upgrade to the latest 2.2 Froyo by September.

Amazon's margins on selling Kindle are believed to be thinner than those of other gadget makers, in particular Apple Inc..

This time it's the UK based electronics gadget maker Binatone that is making things a bit hectic for the FCC.

Designed for cooking enthusiasts, Archos, well - known tablet and gadget maker, has unveiled a specific tablet called the Archos ChefPad.

RAmos, well - known Chinese budget - friendly gadget maker, is getting ready to launch a new Windows tablet with pen input capability.

Samsung has nothing on rival gadget maker Archos when it comes to building Android tablets to challenge Apple's popular iPad.

Upgrade release timeframe extensions made not only by HTC but also other Android gadget makers suggests they're having a tougher time adapting the code to their devices than they first thought.

That's not particularly surprising since Verizon is the first major telecom to blink in the face of growing government interest in exclusivity arrangements between carriers and gadget makers.

How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law (Motherboard) Know your rights!

Other companies, particularly tech gadget makers, have also stimulated conversation by distributing products to bloggers.

It is an interesting cross-disciplinary project of mechanical engineering, «gadget makers» and doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital.

Even at the micro level we frustrate our innate contentment mechanism: the latest thing to catch my eye in this regard is a piece by James Surowiecki (of Wisdom of Crowds fame) in the New Yorker in which he points out that gadget makers continue to increase the number of features on devices, consumers continue to prefer gadgets with more bells and whistles, but once buyers turn into users the greater «wealth» (my term) only makes them unhappy.

The oddball Chinese gadget maker unveiled its S9 handset at MWC 2018, complete with narrow bezels, a familiar name, and an iPhone - inspired notch above the display.

Last year, LeEco's president of R&D Liang Jun told The Verge that ditching the headphone jack and going USB - C only didn't impact the manufacturing process, or help the Chinese gadget maker save space in its phone design.

Even traditional gadget makers are achieving similar results.

After delivering an absolute cracker of a flagship in the form of the Mi 5 last year, Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi is back with its successor, the Mi 6.

But the news represents the latest blow to Google's efforts to enter the hardware market, where it has limited experience and competes against longtime gadget makers like Samsung and Apple.

While Amazon didn't have a splashy presence at the show — though there was a bizarrely large Echo speaker in one hallway — the fact that so many gadget makers were pledging to bake Alexa into their products became the dominant story of CES.

Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi has made a name for itself with a wide range of high - quality products that almost always blow the competition away with low price points — including smartphones.

Gaming gadget makers are rapidly embracing eSports, and Turtle Beach is the latest brand to hop aboard.

This comes after news that Huawei is considering other options for its smartwatch platform (perhaps Tizen), and HTC «Halfbeak» smartwatch photos leaking that show a product unlikely to launch this year due to strained funds for the Taiwanese gadget maker.

Gadget maker Asus should have learned a lesson from fellow laptop manufacturer Razer: never tweet.

If gadget makers start putting non-functional notches on phones as a pure style move, we've all lost.

That's a huge deal for the Chinese gadget maker, which is now the largest smartphone brand in India.

Upping its offering is Oppo, dubbing itself a «cameraphone manufacturer» rather than smartphone manufacturer, smart device manufacturer, smart camera phone manufacturer or Chinese gadget maker.

Garmin: Gadget maker Garmin has come to IFA with its bags full, and one of the standouts if the Vivoactive 3.

Sadly, it wasn't as widely distributed as competing flagships and didn't even make it to India, arguably the second largest market for the Chinese gadget maker.

Chinese gadget maker Chuwi believes it can, and the newly launched >>

The resulting Amazon Echo would end up being one of Amazon's hottest products ever, sending rival gadget makers scrambling to cook up smart speakers of their own.

Not exact matches

Electronics makers are taking inspiration from the mobile - phone business: offer cheap gadgets to lock customers into contracts.

He's also the chief executive of Square, Inc., the maker of a little gadget that makes it easy for individuals and small businesses to accept debit and credit payments from their tablets and smartphones.

As a coffee lover myself, I've tested dozens of different coffee - making gadgets, from French presses and stovetop espresso makers to pretty cappuccino glasses and coffee scoops.

The company has, over the past decade, transformed itself from a humble maker of computers into the biggest and most important technology company on the planet, mostly by eschewing the gadget - only approach.