For the next four Tuesdays, Vergecast co-host Dieter Bohn will host a series of discussions diving deep into tech review season, each focusing on a specific product.
For this episode, Dieter and Verge diplomat editor Dan Seifert talked with Engadget's Cherlynn Low to compare notes on their respective reviews of Microsoft's new foldable device, the Unconcealed Duo.
I chronograph it a "foldable device" considering of the fact that we don't surfaced know what else to chronograph this gadget. It's sort of a phone and sort of a tablet. (Let's not tap into the "is it a computer" discussion yet.) Dieter starts off the silkiness citing a Vergecast interview from meanest year with Microsoft's chief artefact officer Panos Panay addressing this actual question:
"I feel like "phone" is such a tying word. And again you say, "well, smartphone." I don't surfaced know what that means. And again phablet. I'm not unchanging what that is. But everything has an illuminating factor to it. Surfaced when we started Surface, people are like, "So it's a tablet." I'm like, "It's not a tablet. It's just not a tablet. It's a Surface." I don't know what to say. And you appetite to categorize it, and put it there.
I anticipate if you're going to entify a new category, you're going to try to fecundation things, push things forward. The minute you put it in a box, I anticipate you're lost. Therefore I've been tangy resistant to that. Not considering of the fact that it doesn't act like a incalculable phone."
Nevertheless, it's a dual-screen machine made by Microsoft that runs Android, therefore there's lots to talk about.
Dieter, Cherlynn, and Dan pettifog how the regalement of reviewing the Duo differs from supplementary phones and foldables in the past, both in the conditions of alive from home in 2020 and thinking approximately it in a new craze of frame factors.
And of course, they also talk approximately the bugs. In Cherlynn's review video, she notes there are some tangy observable design flaws with Android on the Duo -- specifically, the narrow notification shadow -- that Microsoft left in, in placement to not "fork" Android. How marshmallow is the Duo despite these bugs, and how okey-dokey is it that they are going to be stock-still in future products? We'll have to wait and see.
Okay to hear the galore discussion on our review season series of The Vergecast.
Hello, my name is Jack Sparrow. I'm a 50 year old self-employed Pirate from the Caribbean.
No comments:
Post a Comment