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...Others have highlighted high prices: 9to5Google notes the Note 20 is made of plastic but still costs $999....
...In one video, a reviewer was irritated by the phone’s plastic screen, explaining that “of course, glass doesn’t fold”....
...But it does highlight how far the market has shifted from hardware to services in just a few years....
...The engineering can cost three to eight times, sometimes even 20 times, more than the hardware,” says Mr Takeuchi....
...“We’re seeing most major [3D printing] hardware companies including sensing and scanning of the build process, so they can understand where something may have gone wrong,” says Duann Scott of Autodesk, a...
...The new headset will be a successor to Cardboard. the cheap-and-cheerful mobile VR viewer that Google launched in 2014, and feature better sensors, lenses and a more solid plastic casing, said people familiar...
...Leave the new Dover Street Market with a new black plastic bucket, yours for £30....
...Cardboard, a device constructed from its namesake, Velcro and a pair of plastic lenses, began life as a side-project eight months ago....
...Many hardware start-ups struggle to ship their products on time but with the release of the movie already scheduled, Sphero had a deadline it could not miss....
...“As robust as the sales of the iPhone 6 and 6s have been, there still aren’t that many consumers capable of transacting” with their smartphone replacing cash or plastic cards, said Karen Webster, chief executive...
...It will also try to use the move to smart homes and healthcare services to broaden the appeal of its platform beyond hardware....
...The push beyond hardware has so far had limited success, despite huge investment....
...Apart from a design makeover for the software, the annual product rethink was distinguished mainly by the 5c, a case of old hardware dressed up in new plastic. Things look very different today....
...With new cheaper plastic iPhones on the horizon, many will hope the next quarter proves to be the low point of Apple’s recent slump....
...The S4 introduces a slew of new software features and some hardware tweaks in a package that looks very similar to the Galaxy S3. Surprisingly, it still has a plastic rather than metal casing....
...Hardware is losing its primacy, anyway, to software and services....
...Google’s latest addition to its hardware range, the Nexus 10, has landed....
...The session was heavy on grand statements but short on real illumination: Samsung wants its products to “create life experiences that move beyond even hardware”, “enrich our users’ lives” and “bring purpose...
...The construction is less classy – it is aluminium-coloured plastic. But this is a smaller, lighter machine – just 2.4lbs down from 3.3lbs, and it has more memory – 16Gb versus just 4Gb before....
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...The carmakers General Motors, Ford and Honda, as well as technology hardware groups such as Sony, endured some of the most painful supply chain headaches....
...There had been concern that the supply of certain materials such as silicon wafers and plastic packaging for chips would affect consumer electronics manufacturing....
...Even so, many consumers appear to have doubts about the hardware....
...Even Apple’s attempt to distinguish the iPhone 4 with an enveloping stainless steel band loses its allure once you wrap it in a plastic casing....
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