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A custom camera app has three basic modes: picture, video and panorama. Picture mode has HDR, self-timer and the ability to capture sound when taking snaps. Sound capture is also available in panorama, and that mode has a simple but effective guide system for aligning the images that generated some excellent results.

It looks like the Linux dev side for this phone has been mostly devoted to getting the drivers working, etc.

That brings us to a key point: the Windows 10 versions that will be deployed on Surface Go. With commercial versions of the Surface Go, Microsoft will be shipping Windows 10 Pro, with the option to lock the version to Windows 10 S, the version of Windows 10 that works solely with Windows Store apps and Windows 10 S-compatible accessories. Versions of the Surface Go sold to consumers, on the other hand, will ship with Windows 10 S active by default.

Using the laptop with some heavy-duty multitasking while connected to the internet, I’m getting around half that. But I’m also asking a lot of the computer.

The Tricorder continues to fascinate because it magically solves some of the problems about medicine we still have today: it takes too long, it’s expensive, it’s uncertain, and the times you need it most — when you’re far from home — is often when it’s unavailable.

But it wasn’t until I took my first tea break of the day that I realized how the laptop form factor is weirdly cumbersome. If I want to keep reading an article while putting the kettle on, I have to cradle my device like a cold, aluminum baby. Apple’s solution to this is Continuity: open your phone, call up the task switcher and a bar along the bottom invites you to transfer your current task onto your handheld device. It’s not exactly seamless, and the switchover does take some time. With the Surface Book, task-switching is more intuitive: press the keyboard button, wait a moment, and pull the screen off to take it with you.

I have a box as well, as a friend used to writer programs for Palm PDAs and gave me a bunch of old ones.

"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.

Yes, I still have a Handspring Visor form a work project. We used a cell phone case (they actually sold us the shell) to make a EEG monitor to ensure your were “out” during surgery.

The common thread running through our predictions for 2019 is an increased reliance on real-time, accurate data to optimize manufacturing operations, gain clearer business insights, and deliver higher levels of customer service.

What it also shows is how people create things that never get shared with others because they will only release it when it’s ‘finished’, while they will never reach that state due to setting too high goals for themselves.

We witness the launch of a myriad of Android smartphones every year, with many of them now sporting glass backs and gradient, but such phones are not really helpful or useful for mobile workforce in the construction, retail or logistics niche. Well, Panasonic knows this quite well and for this reason, has now launched its Toughbook Android devices in India.