For future reference, note that Microsoft's partners has never been able to do a ON LAUNCH DAY delivery pre order, since the Surface Pro 1 I'll always check the forums and all I'll ever see is.. "I pre ordered online, has anyone got it yet?"

Why you think I took the COD route?

Mine is the Samsung 64GB EVO Pro, same version numbers for fiirmware and OS....

Weird..

Note that he had to go pick it up on his own instead of being delivered...

Yeah.. please use exFAT for mobile devices.

So I have been trying out various hard disks, card readers, USB sticks, etc. to see what works and what doesn't.

Most thumb drives work.

Most hard drives don't work, failing without notification but the hard drive sounds liike it's not receiving enough power.

Then I plugged in a SanDisk Extreme 500 SSD
https://www.sandisk.com/home/ssd/extreme-500-ssd

And instead of it working, or it not having a response, it popped up a mesasge saying the device wasn't supported!

Feeliing weird since.. to me it's just another USB storage I didn't think too much about it, until I got my hands on a SeaGate Backup Plus Portable Drive today, and it gave me the same message instead of failing silently.

I plugged it into my PC and found out why these 2 things were different than my other USB storage devices.

Most thumb drives are of USB Mass Storage Class devices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class

They're simple and they work..

But the SanDisk and the Seagate... they show up as SCSI devices.. and I finally found out why, they are of a different type of device.. a USB Attached SCSI device
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Attached_SCSI

Which seems like it iisn't supported by Windows 10 ARM yet I guess, even though Wikipedia mentions that Windows 8 already had built in support for USB Attached SCSI

For performance and other reasons, we now have a different level of USB storage device.. something we probably should know as we start using these thing on more than just our computers.

No dock? No worries. Found this usb AF converter for RM39 at All IT Low Yat.

Tried this adapter to allow me to use the normal micro cables to charge the phone.. Didn't work, there's current draw but the phone refuses to charge.

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Hmmm sad to say, looks you can't any USB-C to HDMI cable and use it, I picked up this one and the only thing it succeeded to do was crash my 950XL every time I plugged it in!

Yes, this is working, but because this is a USB 3.0 port, USB 3 devices might run on full speed power hungry mode, so... be careful! Most likely the USB device will just shut down due to insufficient power.

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Yes, working, just take note of the caveats.

I tested dropping my Lumia 950XL on a Samsung wireless charging plate. While it works, I can't confirm whether it's able to fast charge from it. Still contemplating wheter I should get one for use in my office.

Yeah, can't seem to be able to find that, any idea? What I'm really looking at is the battery pack that's Qi capable!

Managed to get the Lumia Wireless Charging plate in Pyramid, yup.. seems to work pretty well!

Hmmm.. The site will resize the pic if I upload from phone directly right? Let me try..

Rich Capture decided to apply HDR to this pic so I upped the brightness.

Clicking on the pic to view seems to load the original size.

Click on the picture, it'll link back to the full size one

I'm a bit scared to ask.. anyone from Lazada got theirs yet?

Hera says damn the useless middle man websites to hell!!

Looks like the forum did still do something to the pictures, here are the originals.
http://1drv.ms/1mYeTTI

Regarding the HDR.... it's not something you can turn on... you leave Rich Capture on, and if it decides the scene can be HDR'ed it will do it. Yeah.. it's weird..
- Bird picture is NOT HDR. Whch was surprising to me, I thought the camera would pick up on the backlight and decide to turn it on.
- Park picture is HDR, which is why you see bluring, since the camera takes multiple pictures at different exposures (-1,0,1 ev by default) so fast moving things like leaves would blur since I'm choosinig one of the mid blend levels.

Of course there's manual mode, iso is 50-3200 shuttle speed 1/3200 - 4secs