Sony's LocationFree TV was the first hardware device to enable remote viewing of live TV — as long as you watched on the company's L.C.D. screen that came bundled with the base station.
Last May, Simple.TV introduced its first hardware device as part of a Kickstarter campaign.
Now, after about two years of hard work, its first hardware device is finally ready for release.
It was also the first hardware device that showed that Google could build vertically integrated devices that could compete with the likes of Apple.
The company had raised $300 million to bring the phone to market, and — as the first hardware device to come to market from Android's creator — it was being heralded as the next new thing in hardware.
Since then, we've continued to develop new, privacy-first products for our integrated software suite as well as Blackphone, the first hardware device in our portfolio of privacy solutions".
The company has discussed its willingness to license the Nokia brand to new third-party hardware devices, and it also aims to begin building new and innovative hardware through a kind of rapid prototyping skunkworks it established post-Microsoft sale.
The first EyeTV hardware device was introduced in November 2002.
First, like many other hardware devices that have been reduced to an app on your phone — fax machines, cameras, flashlights — the restaurant cash register is becoming an application on a phone or tablet.
