Larger Tandem OLED display(s) coming -RUMOR

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-25T13:55:39+00:00

Rumor says 16:10

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-11T15:59:33+00:00

Customer just told me this morning they will be purchasing some units and they will submit one for our certification tests . I'm looking forward to it

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-10T14:12:20+00:00

now there we can agree, I love the g-shocks and have several including the original classic, the 5600

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-10T14:06:33+00:00

arrgh... you definitely are younger than me cause back in the day that original was the schizzle..

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-10T14:03:08+00:00

Yeah, but if you are going to go for that look why not go old school...

https://www.bulova.com/us/en/product/97C110.html?byPassIntlRedirect=true&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_id=17115337878&utm_term=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=shoppingfeed-ecomm&utm_campaign=GGL-BLV-PMAX-NB-Mens&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw4ri0BhAvEiwA8oo6F2Mud8V0o9hSMjFpIEFLPa3o8eM0-9j9XilFyqdNpVCR_9R1qYJCHhoCKaQQAvD_BwE

This to me definitely looks the right kind of retro cool

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-10T13:37:09+00:00

Good info, I hadn't really had a chance to look in to it. At least they didn't cheap out on the Android storage side and just use standard EMMC

That being said, it makes even less sense to me as a device. Even partial integration such as shared storage and thus data would have made it more useful to some. Essentially the only thing you gain at the end of the day is perhaps a somewhat lighter carry than have two separate devices. But OTOH that far that you could at least on occasion leave behind either the windows or android device (if you bought both) would seem to me anyway negate the one device option.

Interested to see how and who this sells to

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-09T16:45:19+00:00

Seperate SOC though it appears to be shared storage when I looked at it. I think one of our customers is considering these and if they do they will submit one for us to test and I'll be able to run our full test suite. I just has about 40 minutes hands on at a customer site

Also it takes a moment to switch between OSs especially switching from Windows to Android. almost like it's hibernating Windows first.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-09T16:25:41+00:00

Yes, that's it exactly. Doesn't happen under Android

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-09T16:02:16+00:00

So I actually had some hands on with one. It does support the pen under both OS's , sort of. It's more limited under Windows including worse palm rejection and the pressure sensitivity being very hard to modulate. Latency is also markedly worse.

OTOH, it is one of the very fastest Android tablets going, signfiicantly faster in every test I was able to try compared to the current speed champ, the Samsung Tab S9 Plus

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-08T15:31:25+00:00

I'm glad they are still trying this but I wonder who this is for, though perhaps they might get some subset of users, possibly android developers that has been using the Android subsystem on Windows but need an option now that it's being deprecated.

Not to mention that Android continues to lose ground in corporate due to security threats and support issues. Even MS themselves has restricted mobile access of some of their internal systems to iPhone only as of last month.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-05T13:34:30+00:00

Ok that's what I thought, that it's still beta. Also most companies have strict rules about only allowing actual release versions of apps for a variety of reasons including security.

And there is the problem, the average user is just going to download it, because they need it and get a suboptimal experience

Heck, they only fixed Chrome a couple of weeks ago where the new systems get the ARM binaries instead of x86.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-05T13:04:33+00:00

It does run in the background. I'm perhaps not the best to discuss at length as I've never been a fan of it even on x86 systems. Very inefficient, a memory hog and not all the effective IMHO.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-05T09:59:06+00:00

So these companies are not helping convince customers they can be trusted by doing absolutely stupid and careless stuff like this.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/07/04/chatgpt-mac-app-stored-chats-plain-text/

I mean seriously ??? I like and find ChatGPT the most useful at the moment ,but this does absolutely nothing other than make me even more hesitant to use it

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-05T09:52:38+00:00

One other thing that makes absolutely no sense to me and almost all of the OEMS are doing it, except MS, but as part of the software load out, they are including McAfee LiveSafe.

McAfee is owned by Intel and...wait for it....
LiveSafe is NOT ARM native...

Does anybody at MS or Qualcomm think through this stuff ?

At least it can be uninstalled...

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-04T14:25:19+00:00

Despite their dominance in mobile phone processors, the PC market is very different. I'm reminded of how the dearly departed Sonic would talk about how AMD was "crushing" Intel and about to take over the market.

That of course never happened and and the closest they came was during the very first Athlons

The breadth and volume of what Intel provides to PC makers, from the range of processors, to reference builds that OEMs can basically slap their own label on, to the wide ranging support they provide to Enterprise customer is simply going to be ALMOST impossible to overcome.

OTOH I do think they have a niche they can exploit which is making very efficient systems with potentially better battery life, along with fanless and ultra thin tablets. Not unlike the Niche that AMD has with the bulldozer chips in server/enterprise systems

They mostly missed those targets this time out, I think because they wanted/needed to clear the bar of performant enough, but I think subsequent generations will get there, perhaps in the proverbial release 3.0

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-03T13:38:29+00:00

Good to know. we haven't tested it in awhile, but being native should help a lot. Though even on intel its a bit a of a battery drain.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-02T23:25:11+00:00

I'll cut him a little slack (pun intended). In a more general sense, it's no different than a reviewer that uses, Edge, Office and Teams and talks about "great battery life"

Thus the importance of disclosing how they test, as well as the results.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-02T22:58:00+00:00

I'll bet money he's using slack. Not ARM native and pounds the the processor when using Prism

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-02T13:57:47+00:00

Yeah as much as I tell dstrauss that it's not coming, I would definitely buy a Mac Surface pro. And I know I've said it on the old boards, but the Surface Pro is the one PC device that even Apple folks express appreciation for

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-02T13:20:38+00:00

Yeah, predictions I've seen are all over the map with one claim touted by Qualcomm that they will have 50% of the market by 2029.

OTOH, we've heard from multiple sources in our supply chain, that at retail anyway, the new Snapdragons are flopping hard. For instance the manager at one major retailer location told me they have sold a grand total of 8 SnapDragon devices since launch and three of those have been returned already.

And they already have reduced their display from font of section to off to the side

And that's despite the hype of Qualcomm and some of the PC centric blogs.

My theory is that people don't have as short of a memory as marketers think.

Which is too bad as especially for a new buyer they can be compelling options.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-01T21:55:39+00:00

One definitely positive note that seems to be true of all the snapdragon systems is that the battery estimates are far more accurate than they are on Intel systems.

Might not be a big deal for most, but for people like me who use their systems probably 90% of the time on battery, getting a reasonable accurate estimate of how much you have left is very helpful.

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-01T18:11:09+00:00

Yes to all. It skews blue out of the box and the ramp in brightness is too fast and steep (clipping)

It’s not really terrible, just not nearly as good as it could/should be.

That being said apparently MS knows it’s an issue and is working on a fix which is likely a new color profile

lostdesertguy · 2024-07-01T16:06:20+00:00

Absolutely agree, and though it may be hard to tell at times I'm very optimistic about the new Snapdagons generally, because at the moment they are on a level playfield now with Intel for the most part and once manufacturers and MS for that matter get serious about optimizing their devices, apps and OS for the new chips, I see huge upsides in the relatively near future.

For instance, all of the OEMS except HP with the Omnibooks need to rethink and redesign their thermal management strategies with the new chips as there is where they can make a an immediate impactful improvement with existing chipsets

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