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I just loved the snap-open “tricorder” feel of the design, even if it wasn’t terribly user-friendly. The screen got broken in a move or I’d still play Lemmings on it now and then.

Battery life from the Atom is about average thanks to its small screen and our benchmarks on that front lined up very well with real-world usage. That means that under constant use, it shouldn’t be difficult to get at least 5 to 6 hours of screen-on time between charges. Charging itself takes around 1.5 hours to accomplish. Now, it’s worth noting that our benchmark and use was under sub-optimal conditions since we left the screen brightness turned all the way up and all power-saving turned off. The benchmark also kept the internal hardware pegged at over 70-percent capacity for nearly the entire test. So anybody should be able to squeeze more out of this handset just by adjusting the settings. On standby, the Unihertz Atom lasted us between 2 to 4 days with intermittent use.. The benchmark for performance, on the other hand, was much less impressive but not surprising. The single-core score fell in at just 779 and the multi-core score at just 3687 via GeekBench’s measurements. That score wouldn’t be expected to allow the latest and greatest smartphone games or most intensive apps to run smoothly at all.

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Another huge issue Unihertz should have given more thought to is typing. Even a seven-year old with skinny fingers had a hard time typing on this phone!

For all the price-sensitive parts here, there are a few features that we didn’t expect to find included. These include a fingerprint reader just below the rear camera, and the front camera can do face recognition if you prefer that type of security.

The Unihertz Atom is a tiny phone with a 2.45-inch display. It comes with decent specs, but the phone’s design is what’s really going to spark conversations. About 80 percent of the people I showed this phone to told me they totally wanted one.

Microsoft has been changing the way we think about Windows over the past few years. Windows 10 is a software-as-a-service release. Instead of asking users to pay to upgrade to a new version a few years after launching Windows 10, Microsoft has been releasing about two major updates per year… while still calling the operating system Windows 10.

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Don’t get me wrong. You can still do a lot with this computer. It just might take a little more patience than on another machine. I’m hopeful that faster ARM-based processors or future optimizations of Windows 10 on ARM will relieve some of the pain points. But right now it’s hard to recommend spending $699 on the Asus NovaGo unless you’re a heavy duty single-tasker that needs a computer with LTE connectivity… and even then, you’re probably better off looking for an Intel or AMD-powered machine with a SIM card slot.

Even our pricier 8GB/128GB model is only passable on speed, though, so if you need to get a lot of processor-intensive work done, something with a bit more power may be a better fit. That said, a peppier 2-in-1 will also have to be larger. Detachable tablets’ potential power tends to scale with size, as a 10-inch tablet like the Surface Go is more thermally challenging inside for hardware engineers than a 12- or 13-incher like the Surface Pro, by sheer dint of less space for cooling.