HP Elite X3 Delayed Again - Is that a light at the end of the tunnel ? or a train ?
Recently Dan Rubino over at Windows Central post what he describes as a pre-review of the HP Elite X3. Dan got his hands on one and made it his daily driver for a week.
While there were some aspects of the X3 he really liked, for example the rounded edges, screen, battery life, etc, the device also experienced several issues especially crashes with the camera app, etc. Also advanced features like Windows Hello support for fingerprint and iris scanning don't work.
A lot of this is related to the fact that the X3 seems to be ham stringed by the OS. While not called out specifically it sounds like the X3 is shipping with the Threshold II build 10586 and it's associated cumulative updates and that 10586 was not focused on the newer SnapDragon 820 CPU, Adreno GPU nor capable of supporting Windows Hello or NFC.
To me part of the reason the X3 was slow to release was that it really required Redstone 1 - 14393 or > to properly run, but unless your an insider - you can't get it. And without a supported OS that utilizes all of the features of the phone, it's getting pulled from shopping sites. The MS Store here is the US shows the device but it's "out of stock".
In a related post the following day, it was announced that the Anniversary Update for the X3 has been delayed yet again and will be coming in a "few weeks"
The X3 is by far the most advanced hardware platform for Windows Mobile, yet it seems that both HP and MS are slowly turning the release of what should be a flagship device into a train wreck.
The X3 was announced way back in February at the MWC and here we are some 8 months later and still the device is not ready for broad release.
So some of this is related to the "new" go to market model that MS has taken with Windows 10 Mobile and OEMs, but at the same time, you would think they would have really wanted the X3 to come out as a wow device. So far it's been wow what a mess.
Right now the X3 is nothing but a beta test and I'm beginning to think that the X3 won't really work well until after Redstone II releases in April of 2017.
While not as visible as the X3 it appears as though it's cousin the Acer Liquid Jade Primo is experiencing similar issues.
Based on estimates right now, MS's Fall Hardware event is sometime in late October, hopefully they can get 14393 running properly on the X3 by then and actually have a pipeline available for folks to buy.
Bottom Line is that the X3 is stumbling out of the gate and while it has promise, I'm not 100% that MS and HP really have their hearts in this and the results will not be pretty.
While there were some aspects of the X3 he really liked, for example the rounded edges, screen, battery life, etc, the device also experienced several issues especially crashes with the camera app, etc. Also advanced features like Windows Hello support for fingerprint and iris scanning don't work.
A lot of this is related to the fact that the X3 seems to be ham stringed by the OS. While not called out specifically it sounds like the X3 is shipping with the Threshold II build 10586 and it's associated cumulative updates and that 10586 was not focused on the newer SnapDragon 820 CPU, Adreno GPU nor capable of supporting Windows Hello or NFC.
To me part of the reason the X3 was slow to release was that it really required Redstone 1 - 14393 or > to properly run, but unless your an insider - you can't get it. And without a supported OS that utilizes all of the features of the phone, it's getting pulled from shopping sites. The MS Store here is the US shows the device but it's "out of stock".
In a related post the following day, it was announced that the Anniversary Update for the X3 has been delayed yet again and will be coming in a "few weeks"
The X3 is by far the most advanced hardware platform for Windows Mobile, yet it seems that both HP and MS are slowly turning the release of what should be a flagship device into a train wreck.
The X3 was announced way back in February at the MWC and here we are some 8 months later and still the device is not ready for broad release.
So some of this is related to the "new" go to market model that MS has taken with Windows 10 Mobile and OEMs, but at the same time, you would think they would have really wanted the X3 to come out as a wow device. So far it's been wow what a mess.
Right now the X3 is nothing but a beta test and I'm beginning to think that the X3 won't really work well until after Redstone II releases in April of 2017.
While not as visible as the X3 it appears as though it's cousin the Acer Liquid Jade Primo is experiencing similar issues.
Based on estimates right now, MS's Fall Hardware event is sometime in late October, hopefully they can get 14393 running properly on the X3 by then and actually have a pipeline available for folks to buy.
Bottom Line is that the X3 is stumbling out of the gate and while it has promise, I'm not 100% that MS and HP really have their hearts in this and the results will not be pretty.
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