Microsoft and Motorola bring a cloud PC to your pocket
Connecting the ThinkPhone to a display with a USB-C cable and hooking up a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse is rather straightforward and works as advertised. The display setup included a Lenovo ThinkVision P27h-30 monitor with a 27-inch QHD display, and the Lenovo Professional Wireless Rechargeable Combo Keyboard and Mouse, plus the Lenovo Go Wireless Headset with noise cancellation option.
The Bluetooth mouse worked fine, but the keyboard lagged a tiny bit which can be frustrating if you are a fast typist by the way of a tech journalist at an expo with post deadlines hanging.
The ThinkPhone’s display can, by extension, also be used as a touchpad if you don’t have a wireless mouse lying around, too. Lenovo said that they decided against providing a display keyboard, too, as the experience would’ve been subpar on the cramped 6.6-inch screen of the phone.
When we stopped streaming our Windows session and then returned to it, the display picked up from exactly where we left off, like on a laptop you’ve closed the lid of and sent the computer into hibernation.
The Windows 365 cloud streams in resolutions up to the remarkable 4K, even though the IFA expo internet was not really up to par with the task as there were too many users hooked up at any given time on the show floor. One can pick a lower-res, QHD streaming to match the Lenovo monitor’s resolution too, though, or any other popular preset desired to speed things up at slower connections.
When it comes to audio streaming, the Windows cloud sent sounds through the phone, respectively through the headset connected to it. The tough phone crafted out of Aramid fibre and with a screen protected by Gorilla Glass Victus has met the MIL-STD-810H tests for durability and water resistance, and offers a fast processor, as well as a big 5,000 mAh battery with fast 68W charging.
