Mobile Hardware

Google And Verizon May Be Fighting Over Hardware, Not Mobile Wallets
StorefrontBacktalk
If that's Google Wallet, then it can't be ISIS or any mobile-payments
scheme that Verizon controls directly. And although there's nothing to stop
Verizon from adding the necessary hardware for lots of mobile wallets,
that's not likely to happen unless ...
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Smartphone shake-out looms as hardware herd may thin
ZDNet (blog)
In other words, it's becoming increasingly difficult—if not
impossible—to differentiate a mobile device based on hardware. Even
software is a two horse race with Apple and Google's Android. On the
Android side of the smartphone industry, ...
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Streamlining chip design
MIT News
Designers of mobile devices need to think hard about which functions to
implement in hardware and which in software. A new programming language
makes that much easier. Analogy could help engineers develop materials that
make use of repeating patterns. ...
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Six Android issues that Google doesn't want to address
ZDNet (blog)
... with 14% of all Android support calls related to hardware failures.
These Android device returns alone is costing mobile operators a staggering
$2 billion per year I'd like to see Google put a little effort into
addressing these issue. ...
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OnLive Mobile brings unmatched game graphics to smartphones and tablets
Ubergizmo
While OnLive for PC, Mac and TVs was a very convenient way to access games
online, OnLive for mobiles offers a level of game graphics that simply
cannot be matched by today's mobile hardware. If you are unfamiliar with
OnLive, it is an online gaming ...
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Windows 8: One OS to Rule Them All?
PCWorld (blog)
I love Windows Phone 7 "Mango", and I do believe Microsoft is capable
of providing a solid mobile experience for tablets. But desktop and laptop
hardware need to evolve and adapt more to incorporate the touchscreen,
tapping and swiping interface before ...
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Android choppy UI: hardware acceleration isn't the problem
Ubergizmo
... it takes to have a butter-smooth scrolling on a mobile device. Here's
what I take away from it: first, although Android 1.0 already had graphics
hardware acceleration, but it wasn't until Android 3.0 that "full"
hardware acceleration was added. ...
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2011 in review: Phones, tablets, laptops on ZDNet Mobile News
ZDNet (blog)
This is still the only phone in the US that can use the NFC hardware in the
phone with Google's ATM service. I have used Google Wallet only once, to
pay for a lunch in McDonald's. There isn'ta lot of choice of venues that
accept the PayPass service ...
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Iphone 4 hardware unlocked on T-mobile, should i & how can i upgrade?
I brought my iphone 4 at a T-mobile retailor n it is hardware unlocked
running on ios 4.3.3. At first the msg couldnt send pic but i fixed it by.
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Elnegy: Would Making Mobile Hardware Help Increase Microsoft ...
Also earlier this year Google acquired Motorola mobility as a result now
develops Mobile OS and mobile hardware.Currently three of the top four
smartphone ...
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