Sentences with phrase «purpose device like»

To remain relevant in an iPad (and Kindle Fire) world, a single - purpose device like the Kindle Paperwhite needs an obsessive focus on the reading experience.

The question is only whether or not the producers can get bookworms and students to buy a single purpose device like an ereader - for that the producers must be able to give a good price compared to tablets.

If you want to get into reading ebooks, it's a very legitimate question as to whether you should spend your money on a device that does only one thing — or whether it would be much more cost - effective to get a general - purpose device like an iPad or an Android tablet instead.

While you can read Kindle books on many other devices, I wrote in 2009 that distraction - free single - purpose devices like the Kindle give you a much better reading experience.

Not exact matches

Judge Denny Chin called Aereo's setup a sham and said the individual antennas are a «Rube Goldberg - like contrivance» — an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way — that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.

So, too, the prophets all speak of the one God, not only as eternally enthroned above all temporal change, the invisible spirit above all earthly affairs, but as the One who has purposes for man, who does not leave man to his own devices like some great nobleman who says: I can get along without them; I can wait until they come to me.

However, many «combat shotguns» like the «Street Sweeper» were determined by the ATF to have «no sporting purpose» and subsequently banned by being re-labeled as «destructive devices».

As mentioned in this blog (http://www.grumpyoldman.be/the-inconvenient-truth-about-al/) the purpose of such devices is that you will then know how much electricity each consumes and can take measures if needed, like only plugging things in when needed, looking for a more energy efficient version.

With a map like this, the team also suggest it may be possible to build a «general - purpose language decoder», a device that can infer what someone hears or says using fMRI data alone.

They may also use this information to associate various browsers and devices together for the purpose of interest - based advertising and other purposes like analytics.

The older students like doing different things from making movies, to using them as a laptop, and the voice recorders and things like that, whereas the little ones use a lot more devices for different purposes.»

To that end it is essential that the equipment we use should befit the purpose and, although a laptop or an iPod Touch certainly have their uses, the subject of maths calls for more specialised equipment, such as handheld learning devices like the TI - Nspire.

G - Cube is at the forefront of researching and creating possibilities for using wearable devices like Smart Glasses, Smart watch, Sports accessories, etc. for learning purposes.

There are devices like iPads and Android tablets that include handwriting or direct screenwriting features; however, eWriters here refers to devices that have the sole feature and purpose of writing on the screen.

Just like you use software programs for different purposes on your desktop and laptop, you require applications to perform different activities on mobile devices.

A special application that enables a general - purpose device such as a mobile phone, PC or tablet to act like a specialised e-book reader.

They served their purpose well as my go to device for e-mail, reading my RSS feeds etch especially when I do not feel like hauling my Surface Pro 3 into the bedroom.

Mercer explained the logic behind the no - frills e-reader, stating that the lack of features like no wi - fi capability actually adds to the usefulness of the device when considering its intended purpose.

Kobo will seek to reach the «avid reader» in the Indian market who, he believes, would like to read on a single - purpose device, i.e. an ereader.

Amazon, Kobo and Sony say that if they were forced to comply with FCC regulations and make e-readers fully accessible to people with disabilities, the essential nature of the devices would change, making them more like tablets, more expensive and, overall, less useful for their express purpose.

Like devices, epublication formats are numerous and varied, with subtle differences between them, but large divergences in purpose, capability, and device support.

Some of them like Kindle Paper White is a very basic device just to read eBooks and some of them Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX are high end tablets that can be used for various purpose like internet and emails.

Like devices, epublication formats are numerous and varied, with differences, sometimes subtle, between them, but large divergences in purpose, capability and device support.

I like building a purpose - built reading device.

The article, however, focuses on the traditional e-ink dedicated device, the one that doesn't do much of anything except download and display books (Note: yes, there are a great number of lesser features like annotation and highlighting, but for all intents and purposes, the job is to show you a book.)

My concern here is with the broad ecosystem of electronic reading platforms — ranging from dedicated devices like the Kindle and the Nook to software that runs on general - purpose laptops and tablet computers — that provide content to these platforms, such as Amazon and OverDrive, and with the publishing industry.

I knew that the $ 400 price tags on Kindles wouldn't last long, because even though it put many different technologies together in a synergistic fashion, it was still a device with a singular purpose (as are its immediate competitors like the Nook)- in essence, a digital book.

Does this confirm that women like book reading more, as research suggests, or do they just prefer a lighter device or perhaps a simpler, single - purpose gadget?

Facing off Amazon's latest and greatest single purpose reading device, the Kindle Voyage, to their last generation Paperwhite seemed like a waste of your and my time.

And so while I think the tablet, LCD devices like Kindle Fire will continue to get better and better and better, I think that purpose - built reading devices, like our electronic ink Kindle will also continue to get better and better and better.

In this case, probably like it was with YouTube, they just didn't have enough people using the device for such purposes to warrant the continuation of updating the actual feature to keep it working.

Some anonymous data is collected via Unity Analytics like crash reports for debug purpose, mobile device used and progress in game for gameplay improvements.

Back in the days when «second screen» was a buzzword — AKA the meshing of two different devices for a unified purpose, like putting your console game's mini-map on your iPhone — Microsoft released Xbox Smartglass as a way to interact with things like movies and system functions.

In the pharmaceuticals and medical devices industries, Bill, there are highly - paid people who work full - time to no purpose other than «strategic communications planning,» taking the raw material of studies like clinical trials and torturing the data until it is made to say — in «high impact» periodicals like The New England Journal of Medicine just exactly what is to the greatest advantage for the manufacturers who had funded the studies.

Customers will be entitled to get an assured discount of 30 % for 3 - year policy and 20 % for 2 - year policy in each case on the basis of various underwriting factors like anti-theft device, location, purpose of use, etc..

I'd like to find one that runs more - or-less stock Android to customize for e-reader purposes, but it seems like the whole field is a mess of outdated and proprietary devices.

The device shown in the image may not be what the Mi Max 3 will look like and may simply be a generic Xiaomi design for the sole purpose of showing how wireless charging will work.

The Google Pixelbook is more of a hero device for the Chrome OS platform, and its main purpose is to showcase Google features like the Google Assistant.

If you're looking for an all - purpose content - creation device, LG's special high - gain microphones and fantastic manual controls might even elevate the V20 above Google and Samsung's best phones, resulting in a phone that's hard not to like.

Fitbit's CEO James Park is also quite confident about the fact that a stylish and well - designed device, which will offer both general purpose function with a focus on health and fitness just like their fitness wearable does.

And if anything ever goes wrong with a Pixel, Google will be the one answering your calls with its newly created hardware visions, whose sole purpose is to develop the devices that will bring Google's vision to the masses without being skewed or customized by companies like Samsung, HTC and others.

Samsung calls the device «Earphone» in the patent application, but like all other patented designs we come across, it's hard to speculate on exactly what the purpose of the device will be, and whether it will ever be realized as an actual product.

You can use your regular computer or laptop, an old beater laptop you keep around just for testing purposes, or even a media device with a network adapter like an Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, or even a Raspberry Pi.

Stuff like this gives you a sneak peak into Bixby's true potential, and that's before you realize that Bixby's real purpose isn't just to serve as an assistant on your phone, but to act as something that can talk and listen to you on any device with a microphone and Wi - Fi.

You can see how such a screenshot would be pretty useless for our purposes; nobody wants to see what the menu of a device they're considering purchasing looks like with a big ugly error message across the back.

The purpose of this is to allow manufacturers to create better integrations with the Assistant into their phones, including things like device - specific commands and ensuring the Assistant responds even when your phone's screen is off.

Fuchsia is built on Magenta, a «medium - sized microkernel» based on a project called LittleKernel, which is meant for embedded systems, such as a device that has a specific purpose but doesn't require a whole OS, like a router or watch.

On the right side of the device, there is what appears to be the camera and above that is a textured button which could serve multiple purposes like power or it could be for shortcuts within the user interface.

Pixel devices, like Nexus phones before them, have always had a duality of purpose.

However, where on other Samsung devices it can feel like modification for its own sake, baking in S Pen functionality does give TouchWiz more purpose on the Note 7.