Sentences with phrase «niche device»

In the meantime, there's a fair chance the added bulk and price will be enough to doom the product to the world of niche devices.

Sadly, these tablets have not been embraced by the global market and remain niche devices.

Companies are taking more design risks and small startups are enjoy robust sales for very niche devices.

If you're not a fan of the already niche devices then you probably won't be very excited.

This would be one niche device nobody buys, thus not much help for the platform.

While there are still no guarantees, especially with Google and Microsoft looking to replace niche devices with simple browser - based alternatives, the addition of players like Sony, Asus, and Barnes and Noble pretty much ensures that the concept of electronic books is here to stay.

E Ink is looking to expand its business beyond e-readers and focus more on niche devices like the Sony Smartband Talk smartwatch and YotaPhone 2.

Presently, it is an extremely niche device and is not available for purchase, it's free (which was also the Cuecat business model).

That's not a bad thing by any means, as other niche devices have seen...

You can find a few niche devices, such as the Ectaco jetBook, but nothing else comes in at a reasonable price with a library to back up the hardware.

GBA then reverted and shrunk drastically with Game Boy Micro, a tiny, sleek, ultimately niche device that has become something of a collectible.»

But in an age of ultra-affordable Chromebooks and Windows machines, Apple's refreshed tablet is more of a satisfying niche device than it is a PC for the masses.

While the Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition is a somewhat niche device, it isn't excluded from Samsung's Oreo roadmap, according to the same source.

The current device is a little short of # 60, though as a rather limited, niche device right now you can understand it relative cheapness.

The brand name has a good following, largely due to its computers, but Asus has a quirky history with mobile products — releasing niche devices that often seem more experimental than anything else.

It's a nice update, but it's a shame that a fairly niche device can actually use it, the Galaxy S4 with Spark is perhaps not the most used device on the network and we'd like to see this on more phones shortly.

The system makes good sense for smartwatches, which are still relatively niche devices where more functionality could provide wider appeal, and Blocks» system is robust and easy to use.

Known for a short while as Google Cast, Chromecast saw integration as a standard into a number of devices in a wide range of markets; PCs, TVs, game consoles, tablets, smart speakers, and more all got Chromecast integration over the years, leading to the device going from a single niche device to a standard and then to a whole ecosystem.

With just a pair of niche devices as the exception — the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet — Apple sold more iPads during the new model's debut weekend than most competing tablets will sell in a quarter, half or even a year.

Both are niche devices with strong followings for both the OnePlus and Moto brands.

There's another thing about predictability that I haven't mentioned: it means something is ready for the mainstream, that it's no longer a fringe or niche device for only those willing to deal with its eccentricities.

That reMarkable has sold tens of thousands of its extremely niche device and Sony hasn't given up on the DPT while letting its other e-readers die is promising.

Once you're familiar with some of the more basic devices on that list, you can get an all - around smarthome hub that supports all sorts of other niche devices.

While the Opsis board isn't a mainstream device by any stretch, the fact that it's creator was able to build a niche device and sell it on a crowdfunding site using what is essentially a custom chip is a powerful testament to how the democratization of FPGAs could change things.

Interestingly, Sony has called it a «niche device» and people who appreciate it have an «eclectic taste in games.»

People are increasingly reading on phones and tablets, which have much better screens than when the Kindle first launched, and dedicated eReaders have become a niche device for dedicated readers.

Ultimately, the Streak is a niche device that does some things well.

W / o wifi display / miracast and backlight it's rather a niche device for certain low res PDFs (hence their Matlab demo text, coarse text and plots) and pen (a GREAT feature!).

However, the tablet is going to be a niche device, with a humongous 18.4 - inch sized display.

It is a niche device that is primarily aimed at authors who want to eliminate distraction from their daily life.

The developers hype this is a niche device, aimed at small companies to be able to make custom applications for a myriad of uses.

Professionals who live in PDFs and want a fine tool for naturally editing those files will appreciate the convenience of the DPT - RP1, if they or their employers can spend almost $ 700 on a niche device.

And if you're after the best e-reader, so you can devour your favorite novels for hours at a time without straining your eyes, the new - for - 2017 Kindle Oasis is excellent, though its $ 249 price (including on - device ads you'll have to spend another $ 20 to remove) makes it closer to a niche device than more - affordable e-reader alternatives.

The seven - inch reader has always been kind of a niche device — a sort of thought experiment into what an ultra-premium devoted e-reader would look like, with 300 PPI resolution, double the storage (starting at 8 GB), a waterproof body and built - in Audible.

The Kindle has been around for awhile and has enjoyed reasonable success, but never enough to guarantee the survival of the niche devices.

Exactly right Erod... that's why I have predicted tablets first on the market will be niche devices, that niche being people with disposable cash.

Kindle Oasis is a niche device, though it is cheaper these days at # 230 for the standard 8 GB version, # 260 for 32 GB (both Wi - Fi only), while the 3G + Wi - Fi version is costly at # 320.

While it is too early to tell how much traction tablets will gain among potential buyers, analysts say the state of technology is such that there might finally be the right mix of applications, hardware and mobility available to make tablet PCs more than just a niche device in an already - crowded market, with gadgets designed to deal with almost any computing a person may need.

The tablet started out as a niche device and, for the foreseeable future, it will remain a niche device, no matter how innovative is Apple's design or user interface.

I thought that the price of tablets would come down when the options arrived, but the price points are getting a bit ridiculous for a niche device.

Times have changed since the VAIO UX's day, though, and where once tablets were niche devices, now they're making headway into our living rooms.

The niche device still enjoys a fanbase, which is why even the oldest models are still being re-sold years after they went out of production.

The Nook needed to be more than a niche device.

Us blog posters and forum visters are a small portion of the market, and overall Vita is just a niche device.

The seven - inch reader has always been kind of a niche device — a sort of thought experiment into what an ultra-premium devoted e-reader would look like, with 300 PPI resolution, double the storage (starting at 8 GB), a waterproof body and built - in Audible.

The phone is clearly a niche device aimed at RED users, what with the ability to serve as a camera monitor and play back RED file formats, as well as handling ambiguous «VR, AR, and MR» content.