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The Elite x3 is so powerful because it is not technically a consumer phone: It’s aimed at businesses and will be sold to businesses exclusively by HP (but consumers can buy it too). If this sounds familiar it’s because the Surface Phone, which is rumoured to be the successor to the Lumia brand, is also slated to be a business-orientated device. Microsoft’s thinking goes, according to reports (which could turn out to be speculation), that the Lumia range has little-to-no traction in the consumer market, especially in the US, while the Surface does. The two brands — Lumia and Surface — are not yet equal, according to Google Trends, but they will converge and leveraging the rising fortunes of the Surface may help save a dying business. Microsoft actually wrote a blog post about the HP Elite x3, touting its security features. This may seem odd — didn’t HP just make roughly the same device Microsoft wants to make? — but it actually makes perfect sense: The Elite x3 is good for Microso...

The security of the devices is the top most priority for selecting the Windows 10. Here are some of the features used as the security essentials: • Windows Hello: The most common used technique for protecting devices is the password which is now easily breached down by hackers. But with the Windows 10, your very unique biometric mechanics like face recognition is used which is the toughest factor to get hacked. • Enhanced threat resistance: The chipset used in the devices are approved by TPM and features like Secure Boot prevents malware to grab their hold in hardware and integrated software. • Windows Defender: This service by Microsoft is anti-malware. • Enterprise Data Protection: This service separates your personal data and site with the corporate data which protects your personal information even more strongly. It’s still in the testing process and will be available soon. The customers using Windows 10 will be more happy reading this because in this recent world of growing ...

Microsoft is working on a flagship Lumia smartphone. The handset, name of which isn’t clear yet, will be powered by the Snapdragon 820 processor, the newest top-of-the-line SoC from Qualcomm. The details of the phone were spotted on a benchmarking website. A mysterious Lumia smartphone recently stopped by GFXBench database. Codenamed RM-1162, according to the listing, sports a 5.5-inch QHD display (2560×1440 pixels) coupled with Snapdragon 820 SoC, Adreno 530 GPU, and 32GB of internal storage. As for the memory, we’re looking at either a 3GB RAM module or a 4GB RAM, as the listed device has 1.5GB of free memory left. As for the photography enthusiasts, the rear camera listed on the benchmarking website says “7MP” though that’s clearly inaccurate. The camera listing notes that the handset is capable of shooting videos in 4K resolution, which means that the camera sensor in the device is either 13-megapixel or more than that. As for the front-facing shooter, we’re looking at a 7-...

After a few months of promises following nearly universal complaints, Microsoft released massive firmware updates for their popular and well-reviewed Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book machines. The updates are intended to resolve a number of issues primarily revolving around the machines’ ability to enter the proper sleep state along with issues relating to the Intel HD display drivers. My own Surface Pro 4 suffered from a number of the problems that the update is supposed to fix. Here’s a quick list of the main issues I was experiencing, and the results after applying the updates. Inability to enter sleep Before No matter how I tried to put it to sleep — selecting Sleep from the power options, pushing the physical power button (which is set to put the machine to sleep), or closing the Type Cover — my unit simply would not enter a sleep mode that that resulted in an expected level of battery savings. My machine would burn 6-7% battery life each hour and ran quite warm when it w...

Lumia Phone For Continuum is clever if you can find a way to use it, quick settings handy, new keyboard is great, retains great Windows Phone features like Live Tiles Against Still messy in some places, feeling unfinished, some of the iconography that works on desktop feels out of place on mobile. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Microsoft  made a move into smart, connected, mobile devices that were relatively unchallenged. The early versions of Windows CE drove Pocket PCs, long before the modern smartphone had taken off. Window's life on mobile devices progressed from this place in evolutionary steps up though  Windows  Mobile editions, with devices still feeling very much like a small computer, before a major shake-up withWindows Phone, shifting the focus to compete more assertively with smartphones. For some, the game was already up, with Apple's iOS and Google's Android setting the pace for modern smartphones, leaving Windows  Phone...