In
terms of form factor, it's difficult to find a smartphone that isn't a solid black slab any more.
And what that's going to do is it's going to open up the possibilities for OEMs to have an even wider
variety of form factors.
I could easily see all of these solutions designed to fit into the
types of form factors we expect in smartphones today.
Now more than ever, app development needs to be universal (supporting multiple devices and a large
number of form factors).
Most of the critics are pretty legitimate, but many people don't factor in the cost that they would induce in
terms of form factor, power consumption or dollars.
We've organized them by price, including both budget and higher - end options that come in a
variety of form factors.
However, we are seeing this
kind of form factor for the first time on a commercial device and its successor might come out later this year with some fine refinements.
Krafcik wants a driver that can work in any type of vehicle, from any manufacturer, providing Waymo with a wide
range of form factors to offer customers in an online / mobile service.
Google has hinted in the past, however, that it wanted to work with hardware partners on building a variety
of form factors for Chrome OS - whether that be convertibles, hybrids, detachables, or tablets.
To use the PlayBook in health care environments «would require many of the health care IT vendors to redesign their applications to take
advantage of the form factor,» Malkary told eWEEK.
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«Customers have told us that they want access to a wider variety of content and an increasingly diverse
set of form factors,» said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows Platform Strategy at Microsoft.
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, who kicked off the keynote at the Microsoft Convergence conference on March 19, mentioned readers as one of a
handful of form factors where Metro will play.
Just a month ago, in fact, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, mentioned again during a keynote that e-readers will be one of a handful
of form factors where Microsoft's Metro interface / design style will play in the future.
AMD's customers may prefer to wait until the second - generation APU products coming next year before AMD can address a significant
amount of those form factors, Seifert said.
«So we see that there are
parts of this form factor that move in our direction,» Seifert said, according to the official transcript.
The analyst believes tablets are likely to expand their usefulness beyond the living room / bedroom in the near future, with usage patterns being shaken up by a variety of factors including enterprise / workplace adoption of tablets; the
diversification of form factors (such as smaller tablets and phablets, touchscreen laptops and «netvertibles», hybrid devices and other new forms); as well as the roll out of 4G cellular services and more cellular data bundles.
Thus the Curve brand for RIM represents entry level BlackBerry Smartphones, which will cover both
styles of form factor (and yes, new Curves are definitely on the way soon).
«Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact pushes the boundaries of technology innovation by bringing our flagship Z3 series features in a compact size, continuing our new standard of offering premium experiences in a
choice of form factor for consumers.»
Unwired View just dug through several of Samsung's patents to get at what the types
of form factors possibly rolling out of their trough in the near future.
«We have a
myriad of form factors, price points and capabilities, but we certainly see more form factors with Windows 8 coming forward,» said Microsoft President Andy Lees, whom Microsoft officials are saying spearheaded the B&N partnership on Microsoft's side.
Indeed,
much of the form factor and styling was very similar to RIM's own less successful tablet bid and, say what you like about that particular device but it felt pretty good in the hand.
The Windows 8 slab is mainly designed to deliver a convenient option to those looking for the sort
of form factor made famous by the Asus Transformer series.
All told, while inevitably derivative to a certain degree — there's only so much you can do to style a
device of this form factor — HTC has done enough to set the HTC Flyer apart yet have it still look very elegant.
If you are new to a BlackBerry — or a
phone of this form factor — using it for the first day or so may well seem a little strange but believe me, you soon get used to things.
When we have solid - state materials like flexible solar materials, we have the opportunity to really ask ourselves questions and
re-conceive of a form factor that's appropriate for those technologies.
This guide is not meant to be read as a
list of form factors, but of differentiating features of headphones, as in a glossary.
You'll find
lots of form factors in the Ledvance Lightify collection, but getting the most out of them takes some effort.
In that regard, Microsoft has managed a pretty amazing feat: creating a shape - shifting OS that can run on a
multitude of form factors without majorly sacrificing functionality on any of them.
It was Ricoh that put 360 ° video creation into the mainstream with its Theta S a few years ago, but for all the
brilliance of its form factor, it produced barely 25 minutes of rather soft video on one charge.
In the video, both phones are put into a powerful blender as the YouTuber tries to grind them to dust — how long a phone lasts determines the
durability of the form factor.
The closest you get is an iPad Pro or a Surface Pro, both of which still favor one kind of experience over the other due to the
limitations of the form factor and operating system.
«Our goal with this preview is to ensure that we get a broad representation of the vast
array of form factors, device types, and operating system versions that the Android tablet install base represents, and make sure we can polish these apps,»