The Galaxy S4, the iPhone 5, both are great pieces of hardware design and engineering.
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Which is to say, it's a hardware design RIM's less likely to muck up.
Another possibility would be a radically new hardware design and there are a few of them out there.
Another interesting thing about the development of this engine is the role of software in high-end hardware design.
Nokia pulled off the strong early UK showing largely via the unusual hardware design of the Lumia 800.
Apple is lauded for hardware design, but has been a bit schizophrenic in terms of design and style with their software.
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The hardware design may be ahead of its competitors, but that really does not matter if the overall operational strategy is wrong.
The other new hardware design that is getting attention is glasses and for this we can thank Google (GOOG) and Google Glass.
Palm Pre introduces a breakthrough user interface and hardware design that makes it one of the most integrated and user-friendly mobile phones on the market.
Glacial hardware design progress aside, if Samsung manages to get these new features polished up and working flawlessly, the company might well have another bestseller.
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Working very closely with Nokia will provide Microsoft a more holistic software-hardware design platform and give Microsoft a fair chance to come up with a decent, iPad-level tablet.
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He was previously responsible for Apple hardware design and in December was promoted to be in charge of the look and feel of its software as well.
Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.
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Garmin's automotive OEM group utilizes the company's long-standing experience in interface and hardware design from its automotive, avionics and marine segments to develop innovative in-car navigation, telematics and infotainment systems.
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While DAS connectivity is very important for internal hardware design, connecting storage and computing systems over a network continues to grow in importance to enable movement of these vast data streams.
"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level, " he told the BBC News website.
"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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It's no secret that we're big fans of the HTC One here at Engadget -- we've already written at length about the handset's hardware design, software features and imaging chops.
To make every application on every Apple device act and feel like every other application on every Apple device, and to have the software of every Apple device echo the hardware design it runs on.
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The company provides engineering services to offload the complexity of maintaining multiple code bases which has proven to be a common issue for smartphone manufacturers, freeing the manufacturer to focus on hardware design and integration.
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"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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The thinking behind this (and it's interesting to see Intel increasingly involve itself in hardware design) is that many users want to be able to single-handedly detach the tablet, something that's often been tricky or at least inelegant with some of the hybrid Ultrabooks we've seen so far.
"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
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We played around with it a bit, and while the 800 x 600 E Ink screen resolution is a little disappointing, and the resistive touchscreen layer impacts readability in a small but noticeable way, the software is certainly pleasant, and iriver is up to its usual standard in hardware design.
While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
The stunning hardware and design of the Z10 is on top of every available handsets on the market.
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The HTC Windows Phone 8X shows that with a bit of focus can make a smartphone with standout hardware and design.
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Given the aggressive pricing, the up-to-date hardware and design, and the software tweaks, the new Kindle Paperwhite sets a high bar for Apple, which will bring out an iPad mini later this month.
Apple thought it could design hardware and software in house and use standard off the shelf parts but that leads to copy cats because parts are parts.
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More than anything else, the RAZR line is about design and hardware -- the HD series is no different.
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