It’s been almost a year since Microsoft unveiled the Surface Hub 2, the successor to its digital whiteboard for businesses. The software giant set a 2019 release date for the next-gen device last year, and The Verge is reporting today that the company will hold a Surface Hub event in NYC on April 17.
As we learned last year, Microsoft first plans to launch a Surface Hub 2S in Q2 2019, which will be upgradable to the Microsoft 365-powered Surface Hub 2X in 2020. For business who want to upgrade, the process will be all done through to a new removable cartridge model.
The Surface Hub 2S that will ship this year will come with a 4K+ 50.5” multi-touch display at 3:2 aspect ratio, 4K cameras, as well as integrated speakers, far-field mic arrays and a new Surface Pen. Compared to the first generation Surface Hub, the new models will also come with a new hinge allowing the device to rotate between landscape and portrait mode.
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We don’t know the date for this new Microsoft event in April yet, but the company should make it official very soon. After the company revealed its HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality headset at MWC last month, we hope that this won’t be the last hardware event for Microsoft in 2019.
