Surface Hub 2X is revealed as Microsoft creates a 50-inch modular potential for collaborative work.
Surface Hub 2X is revealed as Microsoft creates a 50-inch modular potential for collaborative work.
Microsoft has shaken its Surface Hub 2 plans, dividing the 50-inch modular touch screens designed for collaborative work into two products, although it means that the juiciest features will not arrive until 2020. Earlier this year, the Surface Hub 2 It is aimed at companies; While it can be used as a single screen for meetings and brainstorming sessions, it promises to be really valuable when several panels come together.
In this way, multiple 4K screens can be synchronized in a single harmonious display. Everything works with Windows 10 and comes with a digital pen to draw and write. A 4K video camera and a set of far-field microphones also convert the system into a video call configuration.
At that time, Microsoft was planning to launch Surface Hub 2 in 2019. At its Ignite 2018 conference, however, it revealed that those plans have changed a bit. In fact, the Surface Hub 2 has now been divided into two different ranges.
First, and apparently still on track to launch next year, will be the Surface Hub 2S. Scheduled to arrive in the second quarter of 2019, it will run the same software as the original Surface Hub, but on the lighter and thinner hardware that was shown earlier this year. It will work with either Skype for Business or the new version of the Microsoft Teams, but it will not have the ability to rotate multi-screen mosaic in the first place.