Sentences with phrase «took over the smartphone»

Android took over the smartphone market because it was a superior product to Java phones, not because it used the 37 Java APIs in question, he said.

Amazon has taken over the home, and now it wants to grab a piece of Google's pie by taking over smartphones too.

Samsung is trying to take over the smartwatch world the same way it took over smartphones — through sheer numbers.

Not exact matches

Uber vehicles are not marked vehicles and the transaction takes place over what I'd say is a private basis on somebody's smartphone.

One way is to ditch the traditional card and take your program mobile — especially with the smartphone becoming the go - to device for people all over the world.

Take more control over the 72 hours a week that a smartphone is connected to work.

Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes.»

In Indonesia, for example, it currently takes up over 10 percent of the smartphone market.

To get hacked, people would have to be using their smartphones or personal computers on the same Wi - Fi network to which their Smart TVs are connected, and then visit a malicious website or download an app that contains software code that would let hackers take over, the report said.

To see which company is in better position to take over as the clear - cut No. 1 smartphone maker, we asked the next generation of smartphone users which they prefer: the Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phones.

The appearance came almost a week after Cook took the stage for Apple's latest special event, in San Francisco, where the company unveiled a host of new and updated products such as the iPad Pro and Apple TV as well as two new smartphones — the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus — that went on sale for pre-order over the weekend.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

Although Windows has successfully taken over for BlackBerry as the number three smartphone brand in many countries, there is a really big drop - off after number two.

It has steadily taken over the market ever since and is being used on smartphones and tablets that are manufactured by numerous vendors, including Samsung, Lenovo, LG, Sony, and HTC.

As expected, customers took to Twitter to complain, and they almost universally sided with the smartphone company over the drugstores.

In the course of a week, the mobile app «Pokemon Go» has taken over the world, sending smartphone - wielding pixel hunters out into their communities to find virtual Kabutops and Jigglypuffs.

You can sync 2 different smartphones over Bluetooth so you and your passenger can take turns playing DJ.

So the researchers developed an attachment that can be placed over the smartphone lens to increase the resolution and the visibility of tiny details of the images they take, down to a scale of approximately one millionth of a meter.

If you walk around as a user and your smartphone or tablet moves out of the light antenna's line of sight, then another light antenna takes over.

Readings can be taken every 10 to 15 minutes over several hours and the data wirelessly transmitted to a mobile device, such as a smartphone or watch.

The term smartphone had barely entered our vernacular, and it'd be decades before dating apps would take over singles» lives.

With your TV, PS4 and a tablet or smartphone in hand, answer over 1,000 funny questions, take part in daring doodle challenges, snap selfies for photo challenges and more.

For example, an Octa - core desktop PC running 23 - hours a day could take 300 years to process the same amount of data as a network of 100,000 smartphones running six hours over night can in just three months.

Again you shouldn't expect spectacular results and despite the inclusion of Auto Focus, the pictures we took delivered noisy images lacking the vibrancy and detail to warrant taking this out to snap over a smartphone.

It is quite conceivable that the smartphone, or an intersection (phablet) will take over the role of the tablet.

Tablets and smartphones have taken over.

If you feel compelled to pull out your tablet over a smartphone to take pictures, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 features a rear - facing 3 - megaxpiel with a LED flash which serves up decent enough snaps that pick up good detail and exposure with a particularly impressive Panorama mode.

It was well over a month ago now at Mobile World Congress but, thanks to a quick turnaround time from announcement to delivery, here we are taking a look at the latest all - touch BlackBerry 10 smartphone introduced to the world as the BlackBerry Leap, which starts rolling out globally today.

While we all know the recently launched tablet PC — PlayBook — from RIM employs a version of the QNX software, what is all the more interesting is the recent revelation that the QNX operating system will eventually take over from all the legacy BlackBerry OS that, until now, can be seen running the show in the entire range of BlackBerry smartphones.

With the increasing numbers of people — especially younger consumers — taking to reading on their smartphones and mobile devices, it's a no - risk prospect that could stand to have a major sway over the outcome next fall.

The last few years, we've seen smartphones completely take over the consumer market.

And while there is obviously a healthy market for bona fide tablets, too, smartphones have a mobile connectivity advantage over tablets since they have cellular network access as a given, versus the many tablets that are Wi - Fi - only (and buying a 4G / 3G tablet means taking out a second mobile contract which not everyone will be keen to do).

After HP CEO Meg Whitman took over, she announced that the company would ultimately offer a smartphone to keep up with the fact that for many in the developing world, such a device is now their first and maybe only computer.

According to screen caps taken from internal Verizon update documentation, the Thunderbolt will be the first carrier supported Android smartphone to feature Android Gingerbread 2.3.4, the first Gingerbread version to feature support for Google Talk with Video support for two - way video chat over 4G service.

The brand was once seen as the pinnacle of smartphone manufacturing, taking over both the consumer and enterprise market (though it was more known for the latter).

That's why Samsung took over global smartphone sales and dominates amongst Android Phones.

Research In Motion's shares took off Wednesday amid unconfirmed reports that tech heavyweights Microsoft, Nokia and Amazon had looked to take over the BlackBerry smartphone maker.

Honeycomb is apparently yesterday's news as the Ice Cream Sandwich OS is set to take over tablets and smartphones alike, including the recently confirmed ViewSonic ViewPad E70 slate.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his lieutenants have signaled to colleagues and outsiders that the company wants to take greater control over its program for making «Nexus» smartphones, which are powered by Google's Android software.

According to the report, tablets, like the iPad, Kindle Fire, and Nook, are taking over both laptops and smartphones as the «couch computer,» while also turning the TV into a «dumb» device.

Smartphones seem to have taken over the world.

Let's dive right in to take a closer look at how Nexus smartphones have evolved over the years.

The BlackBerry KEYOne was announced earlier this year at MWC and is the last smartphone to be designed in - house by BlackBerry before TCL took over.

Casual games are slowly taking over the world, as you would find that most folks do their gaming over mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Having used and reviewed a LOT of BlackBerry Smartphones over the years, it only took a few minutes with the Bold 9900 in hand to realize this is the best BlackBerry RIM has built.

It's almost like taking that decades - long computer battle, throwing in the fight over smartphone supremacy and adding a smudge of tablet competitions — all - in - one device and in a matter of only a few years.

NOTE: In case the first boot process takes over 15 minutes to complete or the smartphone gets into a boot loop, then you should power off the device completely, remove its battery, re-insert it and then repeat the entire tutorial starting with step 4.

Now, if you take a look over the CyanogenMod download website, you can notice that the CM10 stable built is already available for several devices, not to mention that more smartphones are being added to the list as we speak.

Before beginning with the preparation things, you should know that there are many custom ROMs developed and suitable with your smartphone; you can easily take a look over the ROMs and decide which one is better for you and for your Galaxy phone.

I'm still not convinced these are going to take over for laptops any time soon but there does appear to be room for a third device beyond your smartphone and computer.