Sentences with phrase «phone as a gimmick»

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And until Amazon can figure out how to translate functionality and substance over gimmicks and features, the Fire Phone will remain as a public experiment for a technology giant that's spreading itself too thin.

A lot of people responded rather negatively to my last post questioning whether Nokia had a tablet strategy and decrying the entire idea of the tablet market as little more than a gimmick — Too large to be a phone and marginally more functional but smaller than an even a netbook and significantly less productive.

It's best to think of the Fire Phone as a smaller version of a Kindle Fire tablet, but with a few extra gimmicks and features thrown in along with a free year of Amazon Prime.

I thought that the «shelf» was sort of a gimmick but even when sleeping in my backyard I find it very useful as a convenient place to put my cell phone, flashlight and eye glasses.

Described as a gimmick by some, there are plenty of great use cases for a Kindle display on a phone and we would love to see this on more devices.

in fairness to Samsung, their push for feature packed phones never really worked all that well — everyone CONSTANTLY labelled them as gimmicks, which is very unfair.

And likewise, the built - in microphone for phone calls is included as somewhat of a gimmick, as it works for taking quick calls, but is not of good enough quality for daily use.

The era of pointless software gimmicks is gone (or should be) and no one wants to see a Nokia phone cast in the same mold as the ill - fated BlackBerry Priv.

Samsung's mobile chief DJ Koh has confirmed that its foldable phone is not a gimmick as the company aims to deliver the best experience through the upcoming device.

On the sides of the Galaxy S9 launch at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung's mobile chief DJ Koh has confirmed that its foldable phone is not a gimmick as the company aims to deliver the best experience through the upcoming device.

We used the YotaPhone 2 as our main phone to see how well it holds up against its more traditional competitors and whether the second screen is worth it, or just a gimmick.

It was a nice idea but came off as a poorly executed gimmick, and so the G6 is basically the de-gimmicked, straightforward phone most people want.

While we are seeing the reports of foldable phones since 2011, the tech giant last year presented the foldable phone prototypes, it is clear that folding smartphones are no longer being taken as a gimmick.

Whether you see Mods as an essential or gimmick will be a key driver whether you want to buy a Moto Z - series phone.