Hello everybody.
Here are the failures I found after 1 week of use:
- My Lock button is a little bit loose. As all the people I read with the volume button rocks, mine volume button is on average ok, a little loose, but OK, instead I had the lock button more loose. xD. I think is not a defect itself, is about its material, as everything is made of magnesium, they had to keep room fot the button, because as it tooks dirt and everything, is has more probability to get stuck. The solution should be Microsoft, instead of using a loose button, glue the click activator to the magnessium button cup. Hardware issue, not solution.
- The brightness rattles a little at low levels. Is not linear, so for example, if you had your brightness below 1/2 and use Internet explorer, go back and forward, so as the web dimms (is an IE effect) the brightness do some "jumps". I don't know if is hardware or software related, as if you change the brightness the upper levels are quite smooth, but the downward levels are a little stteppy. You could try it, I think is not my units fault. So maybe Hardware issue.
- The nVidia graphic drivers are too young. For example, when looking feedly feeds, the images, began to had horizontal lines inside it, you could pinch to zoom in, and zoom out, and they dissapeared, so Software issue.
- The speaker position is bad. This is why we found the sound do quietly. Try the Surface 2 on lying on the top of a table, it has an improvement. Thats why, Microsoft choose the position of the speakers to reflect the sound to a surface, as they are oriented to the back of the device. Probably, the front location of the Nokia Lumia 2520 should be better. Also the volume curve is really bad, they could choose another logarithm, becouse until 40 in volume there is absolutely quiet sound, so is as you reduce the volume scale from 40 to 100... Software issue completely. If they choose another volume table, issue solved. NEW: Also I've found that the balance on the speakers are not right, the left speaker sound louder and with slightly different tone than right speaker.
- Touch implementation on Desktop. For example, one thing I found absolutely $"%$%&/*!!!. Try to rearange the email accounts in Outlook 2013... IS completely imposible. Now, connect and try again... Is as simple as click, and move it... Why is this possible? Becouse the Drag 'n' lock function is not well implemented. As you keep your finger on an elemment for more then x seconds, you must see an indicator of lock, to be available to move its element... This is completely Software issue related.
- Autobrightness implementation. Try to set your brightness to the 50%, and then cover with a finger the brightness sensor, located next to the front camera... After a few seconds, you could see the screen dims a little... Thaths not enough, the auto brightness, MUST use a wider range, becouse if you want so little range is not ussable... try to read at night with that level of brightness... Probably you will dream with ovnis after that xD. Is completely impossible. I had more devices, and the exact point should be at least, to modify the brightness fore more 80% of the scale, so for example, if you set the brightness at 50%, the auto brightness could change easily from less than 10% to over 90% with its sensor. (The optimal setting would be to be capable of adjust the hole scale, as it's auto -brightness, you should be able to forget completely the brightness slider). Software issue.
And I think that's all, I will update the post, with more failures as soon as I find them. Luckily there are not more!
Here are the failures I found after 1 week of use:
- My Lock button is a little bit loose. As all the people I read with the volume button rocks, mine volume button is on average ok, a little loose, but OK, instead I had the lock button more loose. xD. I think is not a defect itself, is about its material, as everything is made of magnesium, they had to keep room fot the button, because as it tooks dirt and everything, is has more probability to get stuck. The solution should be Microsoft, instead of using a loose button, glue the click activator to the magnessium button cup. Hardware issue, not solution.
- The brightness rattles a little at low levels. Is not linear, so for example, if you had your brightness below 1/2 and use Internet explorer, go back and forward, so as the web dimms (is an IE effect) the brightness do some "jumps". I don't know if is hardware or software related, as if you change the brightness the upper levels are quite smooth, but the downward levels are a little stteppy. You could try it, I think is not my units fault. So maybe Hardware issue.
- The nVidia graphic drivers are too young. For example, when looking feedly feeds, the images, began to had horizontal lines inside it, you could pinch to zoom in, and zoom out, and they dissapeared, so Software issue.
- The speaker position is bad. This is why we found the sound do quietly. Try the Surface 2 on lying on the top of a table, it has an improvement. Thats why, Microsoft choose the position of the speakers to reflect the sound to a surface, as they are oriented to the back of the device. Probably, the front location of the Nokia Lumia 2520 should be better. Also the volume curve is really bad, they could choose another logarithm, becouse until 40 in volume there is absolutely quiet sound, so is as you reduce the volume scale from 40 to 100... Software issue completely. If they choose another volume table, issue solved. NEW: Also I've found that the balance on the speakers are not right, the left speaker sound louder and with slightly different tone than right speaker.
- Touch implementation on Desktop. For example, one thing I found absolutely $"%$%&/*!!!. Try to rearange the email accounts in Outlook 2013... IS completely imposible. Now, connect and try again... Is as simple as click, and move it... Why is this possible? Becouse the Drag 'n' lock function is not well implemented. As you keep your finger on an elemment for more then x seconds, you must see an indicator of lock, to be available to move its element... This is completely Software issue related.
- Autobrightness implementation. Try to set your brightness to the 50%, and then cover with a finger the brightness sensor, located next to the front camera... After a few seconds, you could see the screen dims a little... Thaths not enough, the auto brightness, MUST use a wider range, becouse if you want so little range is not ussable... try to read at night with that level of brightness... Probably you will dream with ovnis after that xD. Is completely impossible. I had more devices, and the exact point should be at least, to modify the brightness fore more 80% of the scale, so for example, if you set the brightness at 50%, the auto brightness could change easily from less than 10% to over 90% with its sensor. (The optimal setting would be to be capable of adjust the hole scale, as it's auto -brightness, you should be able to forget completely the brightness slider). Software issue.
And I think that's all, I will update the post, with more failures as soon as I find them. Luckily there are not more!
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