That ship has sailed, for many reasons. Mr. Nadella never wanted anything to do with it, the surface brand is now too set in its ways to include mobile phone devices, there is no eco-system that can compete and most of all Microsoft is in this to make money - that means services and cloud. The last stint is still fresh in memory and was a big black eye because execution of said platform is not profitable at first. Sure you can acquire a brand like Oppo or LG but then what? It costs billions in resources and takes away from what Microsoft is really good at. I am still curious on where the whole Open-Source-Open-Mind thing is going....
@@allansh828 Wacoms with a display are in the > $1000 range and require an additional AC power connection. This is of course due to the bells and whistles that are tailored for artists, which most business-centric users do not need. It's an interesting situation. I see people with $2k iPads and Surface devices, using pens with 4096 levels of pressure senitivity, tilt, ~20ms latency... to take meeting notes and sign digital documents. It's absolutely overkill. An external, portable, USB-C-only device with pen support could kill it in many industries, in education, etc., but there isn't one out there.
Display is "standard", i.e. what you would expect from a typical Thinkpad. You don't need great, near-perfect sRGB colour reproduction for office work; you want a matte display with reasonable resolution. So depending on who you ask, this is a "great" display. I know people who avoid the premium 4K display options because they always come in glossy, have high battery drain, scaling issues with legacy software, etc.
@@bawbsmith Makes sense. I can see for office use that this would be standard and would suffice. I was looking at it from a photographer's perspective and because the NITS, resolution, color accuracy, etc. were not very good and this would not be a great monitor for photography. Ive seen quite a few 4k monitors which are matte and some photographers prefer using them in an environment with a lot of overhead and/or window lighting, however I like the Apple displays as they are glossy but have a treatment that keeps them from acting like a mirror as other glossy displays do.
The phone can't power the display but if this has two USB-C ports, you could use one for power and one for the connection to the phone. For the Note 8, I think the phone also has to receive power over the type-C connection to trigger Dex. I've attached my Note 8 to USB-C monitors that are providing power and it still doesn't trigger Dex. I just get screen mirroring. I am almost certain this monitor won't provide power to any attached device though. The Note 9 should work since it will switch to Dex whenever it is attached to an external display.
Ruza Roos I suppose the monitor has two ports so one can be for powering it, yeah I’ve also tried but on the note 8 without dex pad it only mirrors but with 3rd party dongles ive seen videos where dex is triggered just by the usb c connection so I was wondering if the monitors could have the hardware required to trigger dex if not I’ll wait till my upgrade to note 10 before I buy this monitor hopefully then they’ll have made a touchscreen one.
This monitor is aimed at business and as an IT person in business we strictly use 1080p monitors especially for mobile because a lot Microsoft Windows application still does not scale well for high resolution monitors. Yes high resolution monitors are great for games and photo and video editing but when you are working with business applications, like an ERP software, all day 1080p resolution is a much better solution especially on a 14" screen.
They need a vertical stand too.
Will we ever get a Microsoft surface phone? I'm desperately waiting.
That ship has sailed, for many reasons. Mr. Nadella never wanted anything to do with it, the surface brand is now too set in its ways to include mobile phone devices, there is no eco-system that can compete and most of all Microsoft is in this to make money - that means services and cloud. The last stint is still fresh in memory and was a big black eye because execution of said platform is not profitable at first. Sure you can acquire a brand like Oppo or LG but then what? It costs billions in resources and takes away from what Microsoft is really good at. I am still curious on where the whole Open-Source-Open-Mind thing is going....
Unles it runs android, who's going to buy a phone with Microsoft's logo?
Тоже хочу сёрфэйс фон
@windoscentral is it a touch screen and dose it support pen input?
It is not a touchscreen
That idea is pretty genius. Because then you can invest in a gaming laptop and not lose on that feature if you want.
@@edwardhoffenheim3249 Asus will be coming out with something similar but with touch screen and pen input with an option for 4k resolution.
will there be a 15 inch? does ot have its own battery? is it only 1080p?
I wish they had a 15.6 model
What is the aspect ratio for the monitor?
does it work with mac mini?
i have an older thinkpad and was curious: wud this work with a dongle over thunderbolt 2?
Make it touch screen with pen support
just buy a wacom
Which one?
Wacom Companion for example.
@@allansh828 Wacoms with a display are in the > $1000 range and require an additional AC power connection. This is of course due to the bells and whistles that are tailored for artists, which most business-centric users do not need.
It's an interesting situation. I see people with $2k iPads and Surface devices, using pens with 4096 levels of pressure senitivity, tilt, ~20ms latency... to take meeting notes and sign digital documents. It's absolutely overkill.
An external, portable, USB-C-only device with pen support could kill it in many industries, in education, etc., but there isn't one out there.
This will be very good for Samsung Dex. Have anyone tried it ?
only 1 complain , if lenovo could put usb-c plug at the back, that would be very very nice. So I could put close the monitor without bumping the plug
It’s a display and it’s good and all except the display isn’t that great (???)
😂
Display is "standard", i.e. what you would expect from a typical Thinkpad. You don't need great, near-perfect sRGB colour reproduction for office work; you want a matte display with reasonable resolution.
So depending on who you ask, this is a "great" display. I know people who avoid the premium 4K display options because they always come in glossy, have high battery drain, scaling issues with legacy software, etc.
@@bawbsmith Makes sense. I can see for office use that this would be standard and would suffice. I was looking at it from a photographer's perspective and because the NITS, resolution, color accuracy, etc. were not very good and this would not be a great monitor for photography.
Ive seen quite a few 4k monitors which are matte and some photographers prefer using them in an environment with a lot of overhead and/or window lighting, however I like the Apple displays as they are glossy but have a treatment that keeps them from acting like a mirror as other glossy displays do.
Nice. It will be helpfull with Project xCloud.
Can this work with note 8 usb c to usb c Samsung dex?
I guess it does.
The phone can't power the display but if this has two USB-C ports, you could use one for power and one for the connection to the phone. For the Note 8, I think the phone also has to receive power over the type-C connection to trigger Dex. I've attached my Note 8 to USB-C monitors that are providing power and it still doesn't trigger Dex. I just get screen mirroring. I am almost certain this monitor won't provide power to any attached device though. The Note 9 should work since it will switch to Dex whenever it is attached to an external display.
Ruza Roos I suppose the monitor has two ports so one can be for powering it, yeah I’ve also tried but on the note 8 without dex pad it only mirrors but with 3rd party dongles ive seen videos where dex is triggered just by the usb c connection so I was wondering if the monitors could have the hardware required to trigger dex if not I’ll wait till my upgrade to note 10 before I buy this monitor hopefully then they’ll have made a touchscreen one.
@@isaac4109 You can try plugging the other USB C to a power bank.
touch screen?
Can we have at least 1440p?
This monitor is aimed at business and as an IT person in business we strictly use 1080p monitors especially for mobile because a lot Microsoft Windows application still does not scale well for high resolution monitors. Yes high resolution monitors are great for games and photo and video editing but when you are working with business applications, like an ERP software, all day 1080p resolution is a much better solution especially on a 14" screen.
Great with the ipad pro
What if my laptop doesn't have a USB C?
Get an adaptor? Might need 2 type A USB ports though
ADD good speaker and hdmi support - then I would by one ......
Great for Nintendo Switch btw.
If they done it like wii u will be great