Sentence examples for a purpose-built device. from inspiring English sources

It's not surprising that a "purpose-built device" does a better job at its one task.

"We think reading is an important enough activity that it deserves a purpose-built device," Bezos told stock analysts in April.

Amazon calls the Kindle a "purpose-built device," leaving room for ancillary uses but preserving the idea that it has one central purpose.

There have been rumors about Apple releasing a cheaper iPhone for other markets, but previous-generation iPhones are sold at a fairly steep discount, so it's unclear how a purpose-built device would be useful.

The phones look good, and if they're priced low enough they could snag developers who are still on the fence about making apps for the platform and want to see it running on a purpose-built device (rather than a computer-based simulator or, say, a recent Android smartphone).

In this study, a purpose-built device was designed for this experiment and several factors potentially affecting the Hg0 removal efficiency were systematic investigated, including different types of oxidants, pHs and concentrations of potassium permanganate, reaction temperatures, Hg0 inlet concentrations, O2, SO2 and NO concentrations, and different types of absorption solutions.

This study used an external purpose-built device for impedance measurements and the findings suggested that cardiogenic impedance signals correlate well with invasive haemodynamics.

· Purpose-built device – the DR800SG uses the latest electronic paper display technology to deliver an experience that is closer to reading ordinary paper than possible with a netbook or tablet device.

The smoke resulting from combustion collected in the bellows of the purpose-built device was delivered to the sheep by manual compression (tidal volume [VT], 10 12 ml/kg) to achieve a carboxyhaemoglobin content of 45 50 %.

These things are a lot cheaper than purpose-built devices and they are familiar to use".

Then there are purpose-built devices with one or a few specific functions: a high-precision range finder, or a pollutant detector, or a simple laser level.