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.
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.
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.
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.
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.