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The fact that the company has had to put back the Q-POC’s launch date from 2016 to 2019 shows that miniaturisation is no small task. In fact, it’s one of the key challenges that exists for building a Tricorder: the technology that doctors use to diagnose illnesses already exists, but it often exists in large, discrete machines, often spread around different parts of a hospital. Tricorders have to bring all of those capabilities into a single device that can be carried by one person.

We wish the bezels were thinner (or the screen bigger), as the screen-to-body ratio is abysmal, but a smaller profile is something we really shouldn’t be complaining about. For what it’s worth, the Unihertz Atom seems to have it all, which surprised me and every other person I have shown it to.

Aside from lacking bass punch and sounding slightly tinnier, the OUKITEL WP1 is on par with other handsets in the budget and mid-range categories. That’s not to say the sound is great. Listening to music for those who enjoy a balanced tone or bass will want to invest in some decent headphones or a Bluetooth speaker to go with this smartphone. The sound is plenty loud enough for alarms, notifications, and ringtones but simply isn’t going to be anything near amazing for music and other bass-rich media.

QR code is better than the standard one-dimensional barcode because it can store 100 times more information. Moreover, for reading a barcode, you need a handheld scanner; whereas, to read QR code, you just need to point your smartphone camera if it has the inbuilt QR code scanning feature, or you can download a QR code scanner app.

Overall, given the cost of this phone, the features present are above and beyond what we’d expect, and make for a generally serviceable device that should have a decent lifespan if not flagrantly abused.

There is a lot about the Unihertz Atom that really bolsters its appeal, as outlined above. In particular, it would be a great handset for those who don’t necessarily need a smartphone taking up room in their pocket or for those who don’t want their device to become a distraction. Android phones are already very portable but the Atom also excels on that front. It can quite literally be placed in a pocket and forgotten about until its needed and that’s not a bad thing at all. On the other hand, it will do just about anything a full-sized smartphone will when it needs to. The audio quality isn’t great, the camera’s not perfect, and the screen is far too tiny to be any use for those with larger hands or poor eyesight but those aren’t really the focus here. Instead, the Atom aims to be durable and functional without getting in the way and that’s precisely what it does.

The Toughbook FZ-T1 is powered by a Qualcomm processor, clocked at 1.1GHz, paired with 2 GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It runs Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box and can provide up to 12 hours of continuous battery backup.

Pinole, incidentally, is the hometown of the ex–Miami Hurricanes quarterback Gino Torretta, a great guy who won the Heisman Trophy in 1992. I covered him then, and a few years later when he was playing for the Rhein Fire in the NFL’s World League. Gino and I hoisted a stein or two at a beer hall in Düsseldorf. Some of the American players were having trouble enunciating the German farewell, auf Wiedersehen. To solve that problem, they would say these words as rapidly as possible: Our feet are the same!

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.)

It’s unfortunately a relatively big price jump to get this SSD-equipped model, but RAM is pricey these days and SSD is simply not inexpensive technology. The storage capacity takes a nice bump, though, so you can also store more files and your system will load faster. A 128GB drive isn’t a ton of storage, but for the types of tasks the Surface Go is built for, it’s a fitting capacity. On the whole, I think the $399 price point of the Surface Go is one of the stronger selling points, so there’s less head-turning value in hearing "$550 Surface." But the speedier storage and more-standard amount of memory are undeniably nice to have if you’ll also lean on this machine as a frequent work companion.

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Overall, I find the NovaGo to be moderately frustrating to use. It lacks that magical feeling that I’ve come to take for granted with modern computers: instantaneous results.