Microsoft 2017 in review: Wins, fails, and WTF moments | Handheld Pda

“All the ways we use technology to capture, interpret and pass data, and all the back-end systems, are not going to help drive better business and efficiencies if married to bad processes,” Stubbs says. “If you use the greatest technology without best practices on the floor, all you’re doing is creating an expensive bad process.”

The card slot has a rubber gasket protecting it from dust and water ingress, so it would be best if you decide which of those options you like, and then stick with it. As repeatedly opening the tray will eventually impact on the effectiveness of the seal.

But the keyboard isn’t backlit. The screen wobbles a bit when you touch it (which is sadly pretty common for convertible tablet-style laptops). And the fingerprint sensor can sometimes take a few tries to recognize my finger — even after I registered the same finger with Windows twice.

Maybe we’ve been using too many high-powered phones recently, but the P8 did feel generally unresponsive in our hands, and rather like the CPU was working on some heavy background task, permanently.

Handheld devices, as defined by the new law, include, “portable electronic device(s) capable of transmitting and/or receiving data and includes but is not limited to…wireless telephone, internet-connected device; text messaging or instant-messaging device; computer.”

Apparently no one mentioned OpenMoko either, maybe because it (the OpenMoko GTA01 and GTA02) has integrated cellular telephony capability.

Establish a comprehensive understanding of the current scenario across Rugged Smartphones to formulate effective R&D strategies

The best aspect of this design is that for a rugged phone it isn’t overly large or heavy, but as we get into the specifications, you might conclude that those positive notes are outweighed by other less desirable features.

I saw this article and straight up flashed back to my Helio. Picked it up on clearance from the shop I worked at the time, and it was a fairly decent little machine. I liked the handwriting recognition a lot more than Graffiti, it came in handy when I would occasionally lose my voice completely as I’d write on it in order to communicate with customers. There were a few apps and such ported, as well as several text adventure engines, most here: https://www.capitalware.com/helio_latest.html Some other resource links, a lot dead: https://helio.coolbegin.com/

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Matthew Buzzi is a Hardware Analyst at PCMag, focusing on laptops and desktops with a specialty in gaming systems and games. Matthew earned a degree in Mass Communications/Journalism and interned for a college semester at Kotaku, writing about gaming before turning it into part of his career. He spends entirely too much time on Twitter (find him @M… See Full Bio

Putin is popular with the Russian people, but many in the U.S. cannot get over the “Cold War” image of the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin’s 40-year reign of murder and terror. The late Senator John McCain called Putin “an unreconstructed Russian imperialist,” and a brutish and cynical “KGB apparatchik.” Democrat 2016 Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton called Putin “a KGB agent. By definition, he doesn’t have a soul…If this sounds familiar; it’s what Hitler did back in the 1930s.” Henry Kissinger has pointed out, however, that “The demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy. It is an alibi for not having one.” It should also be noted that the Russian Orthodox Church has thrived and is growing rapidly since the Communists are out of power, and while he has not driven that growth, Putin has enthusiastically supported it.