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On The Vergecast: the Boox Palma and the new Surfaces.

After more than a decade of overpromising and underdelivering on all things Windows on Arm, Microsoft needed these new Qualcomm-powered devices to at least prove they could compete with the Intel- and AMD-powered chips on the market. On this episode of The Vergecast, we catch up with The Verge ’s Tom Warren and Nathan Edwards while they’re mid-review on the new devices. After launching last year without much fanfare, the smartphone-sized device with an E Ink screen and access to the Google Play Store has become a hit among readers — and anyone looking for a way to use their favorite apps in a simpler, less distracting way.

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