Microsoft 2017 in review: Wins, fails, and WTF moments | Rugged Smart Phone

There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company, in playing for the team that’s winning big.

"Instead [of] going to the doctor who says, ‘Let me draw blood and in three days I’ll call you if there’s anything wrong,’ the doctor can look and say, ‘Oh, I just checked all your blood over this last year, and it looks like your kidneys are good, your liver is good, I don’t see any indication of oncologic cells, pretty good, thanks.’ … We want to have a Tricorder where Dr. McCoy will wave this thing and say, ‘Oh, you’re suffering from Valerian death fever.’ And he’d then give some shot in a person’s neck and they’d immediately get better. We won’t do the shots — our partners will do the shots. But we’re hoping to build the Tricorder," he told Medium at the time.

To confuse matters even more, Microsoft has had a different program, called "paid supplemental servicing," for Windows 10. Evidence of that deal, a one-year-and-done paid support plan for Windows 10′s feature upgrades, has been scrubbed from the Microsoft’s page where it had been touted in February. The omission or demise of paid supplemental servicing was probably due to Microsoft lengthening support for each fall’s feature upgrade from 18 to 30 months.

As befits a potentially game-changing and technologically-complex device, the Tricorder concept had caught Google’s eye. Back in 2014, the head of life sciences at what was then Google X, the company’s moonshot division, announced a cancer-detection system that would lay the foundations for the creation of a Tricorder. The system that Dr Andrew Conrad announced aimed to use magnetic nanoparticles that would attach themselves to cancer particles; a separate wrist-worn device would measure the particles to detect cancer. The system would over time form part of a real-life Tricorder, Conrad said.

The display is, as might be expected with consideration for its resolution, not exactly amazing. It’s actually not bad either although some pixels do obviously show through in more high-definition media. In fact, it’s pretty much a given that the purpose of this phone probably isn’t to watch movies or play games. That’s definitely possible but comes with serious drawbacks that might be better illustrated by explaining how navigating the more general UI is on a phone this size. Unihertz has not created a custom version of Android to run on the Atom and that means that everything is just scaled down. Reading the notification bar can, therefore, be a real hassle and will present problems for users without near perfect eyesight. It’s not unusable but it requires the gadget to be held up-close-and-personal where a normal-sized smartphone could be held almost at arm’s length. Fortunately, the company didn’t choose a low-quality panel either and even typing on the panel isn’t difficult. All touches and inputs register immediately with no latency.

Run the ARM-specific version of the Geekbench benchmark for example, and you’ll see that performance is about twice as high as you’d get from the x86-version of Geekbench, which requires emulation to run.

Windows Hello doesn’t have direct competitors because of its exclusivity to Windows 10 devices, but it does face indirect competition from the likes of Apple, Samsung and others who provide similar technology for their devices and related ecosystems. Apple’s Face ID is now in use on the iPhone X, iPhone XS and XS Max and the newest iPad Pro tablets. (On the tablets, it even works in landscape mode.)

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"UPSNav is not a conventional navigation platform like those that guide drivers in their personal vehicles from the front door of Address A to the front door of Address B," Juan Perez, UPS chief information and engineering officer, said in a release. "UPS drivers make an average of 125 stops each day. They often drive to customer locations that are not visible from the main road or through traditionally available mapping technology. UPSNav was built for the heavy and complex UPS workload."

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I had a palm in high school. I can remember everyone making fun of it…. 10 years later we had smartphones. lol