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What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…
What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
@Leo, there are a couple of reasons for the Teams displays:
It’s pretty rare for me to be on a Teams call and not end up sharing my screen at some point. I guess I’m not in the target demo for the device, but I could totally see this thing sitting on some executive’s desk. The tidy hardware package and manageability would be nice from an administrator’s perspective.
All excellent points, as usual. I think @Leo did a surprisingly good job in the segment as well.
Paul drives me a little nuts with his “What’s the point?” mantra for Surface Duo. He keeps saying that Panos and MS have never bothered to explain why this device makes sense, but I’ve seen a lot of demonstrated use cases in their videos and many more ideas in comments to Paul’s articles. They have a theory that there is something to the idea of a pocketable, occasionally penabled, dual screen productivity device. The Surface Duo was built specifically to test that theory-- not to compete with mainstream flagship smartphones-- and every design consideration and trade-off was made in service to evaluating the core concept. Being extremely thin and light is core; things like the camera, wireless charging, NFC are not.
The (seemingly) first longer hands-on overview of a the Surface Duo. Dave2D states it’s an engineering sample. It was posted an hour ago.
Thank you all for the excellent podcast this week.
On what to call these devices (i.e., the “phablet” discussion): I think foldables
is the most common name today. We’ll see if that remains popular like “flip phones” or dies a slow death like “phablet”.