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Microsoft Developing Dual-Screen 'Pocketable' Surface Device
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That’s all fine, as long as you accept that responses like yours are just as predictable. It’s just as biased to be primed for forum warfare, wielding terms like “cult” and “fanboy” like blunt instruments as it is be a blind follower of a company. Like a sad number of others these days, many around here believe that an opinion other than theirs is wrong by definition.
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iPhone "Flip" anyone?
I heard a lady just the other day saying how she loves her iPhone 7 Plus, but it's pointless as a phone on the go because its so big.
What if Apple did an iPhone that could fold in half. Open up when you want the extra space, or keep it folded to use as a phone.
I made a pic back in 2009 of a 3GS like that... dodgy bezel around the screen however made it silly. The modern edge-to-edge screens however could fix that.
I heard a lady just the other day saying how she loves her iPhone 7 Plus, but it's pointless as a phone on the go because its so big.
What if Apple did an iPhone that could fold in half. Open up when you want the extra space, or keep it folded to use as a phone.
I made a pic back in 2009 of a 3GS like that... dodgy bezel around the screen however made it silly. The modern edge-to-edge screens however could fix that.
This looks good! I hope Apple is working on their designs. I think this would fit in with the notebook market quite well.
Apple really needs to step its game up with regards to Mac hardware this year... or just give up on Mac hardware and license OSX so I can run it in a VM.
Microsoft has announced nothing. It's a render from someone not associated from Microsoft who made something up based on a patent application. The wallpaper is the render guys idea.
Yeah, I've also been frustrated with things moving backwards. Even simple things like audio/video chat are done poorly, in some ways worse than before.
No, this is classic FUD: The Verge style. It is quite clear when you read the article.
Microsoft did not announce anything. It's a rumor posted by The Verge, based upon a supposedly leaked internal email. Now this rumor is placed in this thread by MacRumors, to make the confusion even worse.
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You are either a software/game developer or you feel privileged to unnecessarily contribute to global pollution/waste/resource extraction, etc to feed your temporal addiction/stimulus for entertainment/communication, etc.
Apple’s motto, “Think Different(ly)”.
Oddly enough this is where computing in the industry is heading, in Steve Jobs own vision where mobile computing is the prominent hub and desktops are the trucks. This vision will only be extended into AR/VR and AI/ML. Some foresight on your part would see this progression within the industry. Does this mean that workstations will cease to exist, nope it just means that mobile computing is getting more powerful to compete with the present work done on laptops and entry-mid range desktops.
That is okay though, continue living in your bombshelter/bunker while the computing/mobile world advances to unification.
There is no point for most daily users even in the business world to have a phone, tablet, laptop and a desktop. With eGPU via Thunderbolt/USB-C the concept of even advanced gaming can be foreseeable.
FUD or not, even if Microsoft is working on such a concept/product or not. Samsung has already demonstrated a similar concept for an upcoming mobile device possibly this year if not next, with a rumoured name of the “Galaxy X”.
This is a eventuality of the evolution/progression of the mobile phone to merge with a tablet. Consider one of the devices provides more screen/battery and processing power than the other due to limitations of physical size.
The question is will this actually be released this year or in the near future in any form is quite intriguing.
Soon to be bed fellows with Microsoft's extremely popular mass market release, the Zune player.
I understand what you are saying and I agree. But I was replying to @sracer who was claiming (or agreeing) that Microsoft announced this (out of FUD). Which is pertinently false. Lot's of people posting in this thread seem to think that simply because they did not read the article properly.
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So many criticisms based on so little paying attention. Microsoft hasn’t announced anything, and the pictures you see are simply a fainciful artist’s take based flimsily on patents.
No. I actually did read the article. This isn't the figment of The Verge's imagination but repeats some of Microsoft's own statements and others like "tech enthusiast" Paul Thurrott. That is how FUD works... sometimes by direct means, other times by others who are playing along.
This type of stuff happens on a regular basis... floating trial balloons through the tech media and gauge public response. Since they didn't publicly say anything directly, they can plausibly deny any and all of it.
It may be an advertising agency creating the images, when they only had images of a device that wasn't turned on, so they copied the nice wallpaper from an iPhone.
You can make up all kind's of conspiracy- or other theories and say 'that's how things work', but that is your theory and not based on anything substantial. One thing IS fact: Nowhere in the article is mentioned that Microsoft announced it (actually quite the contrary). Fact is that there are rumors about these devices. Who started those rumors is anybody's guess.
Just because you say FUD does not make it true. It just as well can be a figment of your imagination.
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Wow you are correct. However, I don’t know about the three minutes you provided. Terminus kept a connection for about 5 minutes while the screen was on. I took a shower and when I came back the connection timed out. I recommend using SSH-Keys to speed up connection and nohup/disown if you’re using bash to prevent your tasks from dying upon disconnect.
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Don’t think you understood my post. I’m just saying look at surface hybrid hardware. That ain’t the future.
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I remember reading that Google Glass was gonna try to be the prescription glasses killer. They should’ve gone that route instead of the geeky/whatever route they did go with.
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You’re not thinking far ahead. Computers aren’t limited to what I’ve mentioned. I’m saying that’s all people will focus on. Surface hybrids sucked, phablets didn’t last long (Samsung originally had their phablets run tablet apps), etc. Again, what are you thinking will increase productivity other than extremely fast processing that comes with faster RAM, denser CPU’s, etc? Hybrid devices hinder you in most tasks (like how the surface hybrid couldn’t be placed in your lap comfortably) and don’t offer enough gains. Is it so hard to admit apples approach really that hard to swallow?
Most people just read the headline/ title of an article and make a snap decision/opinion. My comment was not directed at you in any negative manner, considering this is a "rumour" site
.. and the number of patents they have, ya...
Now, who will be the first one to actually get one out to the public. That's the only question i wanna know.