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New Sonos Speaker Costs $500 but New Smart Tuner Is Free

By using the capabilities of Apple's products, Sonos can calibrate the sound in a room better than it could using other methods, said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research. "We're seen stereo receivers come with tools to measure the acoustics in a room, but Truepl...

New iPhones Poised to Do Land Office Business

"Some of the sales may have to do with how consumers acquire new smartphones," said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research. "We're shifting away from two-year commitments to one carrier, to plans that allow customers to update their phones more frequently," he to...

Samsung’s IoT Products Make Themselves at Home

That hasn't always been the case in the past, noted Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research "SmartThing, before being acquired by Samsung, took a very open approach, trying to accommodate many different standards without playing favorites," he told TechNewsWorld. "...

Apple Watch Nips at Fitbit’s Heels

"Without support of objects in people's homes, the proposition for wearables isn't as compelling as it could be," Reticle Research Principal Analyst Ross Rubin told the E-Commerce Times Wearables may become more popular if they can shed their geeky image. That's especially the...

Say Hello to Google’s Kinder, Gentler Router

"It allows Google to have a Trojan Horse for getting different standards that they support into the home," Reticle Research Principal Analyst Ross Rubin told TechNewsWorld OnHub does appear to be a Google play for the smart home, said Stephanie Gibbons, a senior analyst with I...

Hey, Siri – Get Out Your Steno Pad

A Siri transcription service could be beneficial to Apple's ecosystem, noted Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research. "It contributes to the overall user experience of using the iPhone, and creates consistency of the user experience across carriers who may have di...

GoPro Whittles Down Hero4 Action Cam

"It's essentially the same price as a GoPro Silver, which has better specs," noted Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research Easier to Use...

Reviewers Sing Apple Music’s Praises

"The three-month extended trial is exceptionally long and provides more time to get hooked on the service," observed Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research "In some cases, consumers will likely stay on via inertia," he told the E-Commerce Times....

DxO One Bridges iPhone-DSLR Camera Divide

That's a new twist for a camera like this, noted Ross Rubin, the principal analyst at Reticle Research "We really haven't seen a lot of cameras with built-in cellular capability," he told TechNewsWorld....

Synaptics Gives Spacebar Some New Touches

"If you look where Apple focused on with the new MacBook, a lot of it was on the keyboard and the trackpad, because those are user interface methods that aren't natively available on an iPad," observed Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research "The spacebar does take u...

Apple Fiddles With MacBook Pro, iMac Features and Pricing

"With the greater focus on corporate sales by Tim Cook, it's important to have competitive products at the high end of the laptop and desktop lines," Reticle Research Principal Analyst Ross Rubin told TechNewsWorld Apple's position in the PC market today has a certain irony to...

Swiftkey’s Clarity Keyboard Puts Auto-Correction in Context

"There has been improvement in auto-correction, but there are still unintentional auto-correct errors," said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research Still, "for the vast majority of consumers, it helps much more than it harms," he told TechNewsWorld....

Flir Debuts Triple-Threat Video Cam

"There isn't much out there that tries to serve as many roles as this product," said Ross Rubin, the principal analyst at Reticle Research "Action cams aren't used much of the time, so this lets it serve a purpose when you're not out skateboarding or surfing or capturing the f...

Valve To Put Steam Behind VR Efforts With New Headset

More immediate competition to SteamVR may be posed by the Oculus headset, noted Ross Rubin, the principal analyst at Reticle Research. "We'll have to see how much overlap there is between Oculus and the SteamVR platforms," he told TechNewsWorld "Certainly Steam has the ability...

Apple Awarded Patent for Hybrid VR Headset

Ross Rubin, the principal analyst with Reticle Research added, "It lets you leverage a relatively powerful processor in the smartphone that's mobile so you can enjoy the VR environment anywhere." There are other advantages, too. "Because it's a connected device," Rubin told Te...

Amazon Adds Unlimited Photo Storage to Prime Goodie Bag

"This particular move doesn't cost Amazon very much because the cost of storage continues to drop dramatically, and it could be a very sticky benefit to convince consumers to keep Prime," Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research, told the E-Commerce Times Extending ...

Android Hoards 84 Percent Smartphone OS Market Share

Indeed, "we're seeing Google moving into new categories," Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, told LinuxInsider. "So even as smartphone penetration starts to saturate," he pointed out, "there's still many hardware devices that will be running Android in the fut...

HTC Breaks From Pack With Selfie Phone, Blind Cam

"It's HTC's move into the Internet of Things, moving beyond the smartphone," said Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research "It helps them build connectivity and intelligence into other products, as well as build an ecosystem not only for its smartphones but others, ...

Panasonic’s New Point-and-Shoot Snapper Supports 4K Video

"We've already started seeing smartphones with some 4K functionality, like the Lumia 830 and LG G3," Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research, told TechNewsWorld Pricey or Not?...

Instagram Hyperlapse Sparks Time-Lapse Video Craze

The Instagram app "is the most impressive effect to hit smartphone video in recent memory," Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research, told TechNewsWorld Time-lapse is a common video technique for showing the passage of time. For instance, the SciFi network's Face Of...

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