- Hey guys, it's Justine.
And we are back with some more tech.
It has been such a crazy quarantine,
as far as tech is concerned.
So many products have been launched and announced,
and today I'm checking out the new
Surface Headphones 2, the new Microsoft Surface Go 2,
and of course, one of the Surface Type Covers
to go with it.
I've covered the previous version
of the Microsoft Go, and what I loved so much
about the original version was, it is just such a small
portable little tiny device, and now, more than ever,
if you're someone who is trying to do
a bunch of conference calls, zoom calls,
Microsoft teams meetings, whatever it is that you're doing,
this is a really great device for that
and I will show you why I would prefer
using this over the iPad.
I know, it's shocking, shocking.
What do I have?
A little knife or something?
Oh, I don't have a knife, but I have a screwdriver!
There's a few different models of the Surface Go 2,
but this is the 8th Gen Intel Core
m3 processor with a 128 gigs of storage,
and 8 gigs of go RAM.
Put my screwdriver away, I think we're done with that now.
This is the Intel Core m3 version,
here it is.
I love that they label everything for you,
it's like do you need to know where the camera is?
Check.
Microphone?
Check.
Audio?
We've got you covered.
(plastic scrunching)
The Surface is such a great, small, little device.
Like you just, I, I really really like this thing.
It's got its nice little hinge here,
which is super sturdy.
See what else we have in the box, I already know.
This is gonna be the power adapter, spoilers!
And since this is the LTE version,
this gives you a nice SIM card ejector.
Let's get this thing turned on,
and open up our keyboard.
This will work as a perfectly fine
stand-alone device without a keyboard.
But having this really does change the game.
I really like this color a lot, it's so thin.
The type pad covers are about a $150 extra,
and they do come in two colors
this is the ice blue, it also comes in a poppy red.
Seems more like a gray and a blue.
This also has a micro SD card slot
for expandable storage, (mumbles) pc,
we have a headphone jack.
And also has the built-in camera
on the front and on the back.
So, what I love about this is I've been doing
so many Zoom calls and conference calls,
Microsoft team meetings, the camera
configuration is on the front here.
The problem with the iPad that I've run
into is the camera is actually over here,
it definitely is a much better placement
if you're doing those types of thing.
So, I do really like the way that this is set up.
Now, I will have a nice little cute small device.
- [Computer] Hi there,
- For, I'm Cortona, and I'm here to help.
- For friendship. (chuckles)
- A little sign-in here, a touch of WiFi there,
and we'll have your PC ready for all
you plan to do, and if you'd like
me to stay quiet, just select the little microphone i,
- Yup, you're done, we can be friends later.
(the computer assistant speaks)
Oh my gosh, no now you're talking to me.
So, before I finish setting this up,
let's open up the headphones so that we can test
these out with the Surface Go.
New Surafce 2 headphones have improved
sound quality plus battery life,
they say that yo can get about 20 hours of usage.
And it also has adjustable noise cancellation.
Look at that, it'll work with your iPhone.
And it's Bluetooth, so basically it will work
almost with anything that,
is Bluetooth.
I really like the previous version
of these, and I like that these
black version, these are really light.
(rhythmic music)
First tests, they're actually quite comfortable.
Let's continue setting this up
and test out the headphones and the Surface Go.
(upbeat music)
Surface is all set up, the headphones
are currently synced, and what's cool
about this is these have dials
on them, so I can adjust the volume
over here, and I can adjust the amount
of noise cancellation over here.
So, this has three different settings.
So when I turn it, it will go to maximum
noise cancellation and then when I turn
it a little this way, it will allow
some pass through sound,
is she's talking to me right now?
And then when I turn it all the way,
it will allow me to do an ambience
sound amplification, so I can hear
everything around me, just a little bit better,
which I need because my hearing is absolute trash.
Anyway, these headphones are awesome.
The one thing that I do like that they did update,
is that these turn so that they can rest
very nicely on your shoulders, it's like
a, it's like a nice hug.
So, these sound great.
Plus having 20 hours of battery life is pretty awesome.
So I'm gonna put these back on,
and I'm gonna watch one of my YouTube videos.
So, you can also see, it's controlling
the volume, when I turn it on my head.
You guys can't hear this, I also can't hear
myself talking, wow, wow.
Sounds really good.
Wow, I, like I honestly can't even hear myself.
And I'm loud. So one of the reasons I really wanted
to show you guys this is to give
you another option because I feel
like a lot of people right now are trying
to find devices to get work done,
if you do need something that is super simple
and cost effective, just this simple model
would be enough to do some calls, to take notes.
The keyboard is an added extra,
but depending on what you're doing with this,
like you could just use this, just like this as a tablet.
It does have a full keyboard.
So I've been using an Excel spreadsheet
a lot recently for tracking and cataloging
items animal crossing and also tracking
turn up prices.
If this doesn't make sense to you, that's okay.
If it does make sense, you know
that animal crossing life is real.
Anyway, all things considered,
I can now use this as my animal crossing tracking device
for all of my Excel spreadsheets.
And I look forward to using this more for doing some calls.
I do wanna show you guys what I was talking
about as far as the camera placement,
so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you guys
just recording directly from the camera
on the iPad and on the Microsoft Surface Go 2.
And it's really crazy because the eye line
is so incredibly different that it really makes
me think that Apple is going to have to figure
out some sort of a solution to this,
'cause most of the time, when I'm using my iPad,
especially this docked now to the magic keyboard,
this is the way that I'm using it,
I'm using it horizontally.
So, we do my little video test.
First up, I've got my Microsoft
teams meeting here on my Surface Go.
And I'm not gonna look directly
at the camera, I'm gonna look kind
of below the camera, where the people would be.
Hi, it's Justine, checking in here for our meeting,
I have arrived, propped as always.
Yeah, that's, that's cool so I'm gonna send
you the document as soon as I get off
of this call right now.
I'm currently doing really important things,
like I'm trying to find a 600 plus turn up island,
so, I don't know if you can just like
hold off on asking me to do anything
for like the next four days.
So, right now, I'm gonna show you
what it looks like if I'm looking
directly at the camera, so I'm looking
at the camera directly now, and now
I'm looking down, slightly to myself.
I'm looking over here to the left
to one of my friends over there,
and I'm looking over here to one of my friends over here.
It's really great (mumbles), it's really really great.
So now, it's time to do a group face time call
with all of my friends, so I'm gonna hit
record here, so you can see what this looks like.
I have pushed this so far forward
so that I'm actually in the shot.
It's such a strange camera placement
for doing things like this.
So, this is me looking at, up here,
kind of where the apple pencil is,
where the Microsoft Surface Go camera
actually would be, so if I'm doing calls
with people, I'm now looking around the screen,
wondering if anybody wants to talk to me.
I'm looking off to the top right,
this is the top left, kind of looking down,
and this is me looking at the center of the screen.
Does anybody having anything that they wanna say
to me, any friends that are here?
No?
Okay.
But I will say that if I do flip this thing
around, this is perfect placement.
So, if I'm doing a call like this,
because I'm fully in the frame, this looks great.
But I'm then using my iPad like this
and how am I to, how am I gonna type?
I'm not.
Now that our conference calls are over,
we can have a chat.
I think the Microsoft Surface Go 2
checks a lot of boxes for a lot of people
on a lot of different levels, this can be used
for word processing, it could be used for simple
apps and games, and it can also be used
for doing all of those conference calls.
And if you are getting the base model,
it is a really great price.
Obviously, the iPad and this are two very
different devices, I feel like the iPad
is definitely geared toward doing more things
like drawing, video production,
and of course it is an IOS device.
I know a lot of you guys out there are windows
users and android fans, so something like this
might be perfect for you.
So, thank you guys for watching this video.
If you guys have any questions about this device,
or anything in general, free feel to leave
those in the comments below.
And I will see you in my next video.
Bye.