His team is focused on product delivery, and execution of Sprint device configuration policies, end-to-end device development methodology, tools and resources.
Could it be that the OEM has finally earned the opportunity to add a higher-end device to the GSM giant's lineup?
But critical remarks in some early reviews meant the phone also launched with a reputation as a high-end device with particularly short battery life.
The phone unveiled - the Ascend P2 - looked much like any other high-end device on the market, though the company made big claims about its capabilities.
The new handset shares a handful of specs with the Ascend D2, and although it's not as equipped, you wouldn't call it a low-end device.
Though it does resemble the other tablets in ASUS' lineup, the company has clearly tinkered with the design as it presumably positions this thing as more of a lower-end device.
In other words, a solidly high-end device.
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Provided the apps you need are there and detailed notifications aren't matters of life and death, you can comfortably say you're using a high-end device -- and that speaks volumes about how far Nokia has advanced in just half a year.
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If you're looking for a relatively cheap way to get on T-Mobile's 3G network, yeah, absolutely, though we might wait until they get their pricing strategy figured out -- it's clearly a lower-end device than the Behold and it needs to be priced accordingly.
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On the plus side, the keypad is awesome with large, easy-to-press buttons that even the fattest fingers would have no trouble using, and the screens are bright and reasonably colorful (though the 220 x 176 resolution never lets you forget that you're dealing with a lower-end device here).
It's clear that Nokia is leaving room in its product portfolio for a high-end MeeGo device.
T-Mobile had one low end WP7 device that we considered for our daughter (She choose something else).
Unfortunately the sheer size of the Xperia T means that the design language Sony had used on their previous high-end Android device, the Xperia S (reviewed here on Forbes), has been lost.
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The phone we handled felt like a pretty standard low-end Android device, albeit running an HTML5 open source OS. Swapping between apps was quick and responsive, but the phone really wasn't doing too much.
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Head-on, the Note 8.0 looks just like any other high-end Galaxy device: capacitive buttons for menu and back hug the physical home button below the display, while the company's logo, a front-facing camera and sensor reside up top.
However, like the lower-end HP device that preceded it, the device shines in an environment like an office, home or campus awash in WiFi, the same kinds of settings in which notebooks in general are most often used.
Numbers 9 and 0 are reserved for two long, silver shoulder buttons on either end of the device's top edge.
Think of it this way: on one end of this device-to-data center world, we have streams of raw data coming from Internet-enabled devices.
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Endpoints can be any end-user device connected to the network.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much where the similarities end, as this device's software really wasn't up to scratch.
The Sonnet adapter connects directly to a computer, or at the end of a Thunderbolt device chain with a Thunderbolt cable (available at the Apple Store).
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As at the end of 2011, Huawei Device serves more than 500 operators all over the world.
Israeli intelligence believes Tehran will have a nuclear device by the end of 2009.
"If you're not into sappy movies, you will end up crying with this device, " he said.
His three-year-old company Temperature Concepts hopes the FDA will approve the device by the end of this year.
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There is a strong rumor that Facebook will offer a wireless device before the end of this year.
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But what does Apple really lose if the net effect is that consumers end up buying an Apple device anyways?
That prospect is coming closer, with the charity planning to bring out a first version of the device by the end of the year.
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