What surprised me most is how little impact the addition of LTE seems to have had on the battery life of the Go. There's just nothing to it: you're online whenever there's no Wi-Fi around you, and it's exactly as easy as it should be, no thinking required. I'd tried LTE-equipped Windows machines in the past, and this is absolutely the smoothest transition I've ever experienced. It'll show the signal strength where you are, the mobile network and whether or not you're connected, and tell you that Windows is managing keeping you connected. Here's how it works: with a SIM card in the Surface Go, a new option appears at the top of the connectivity pop-up where Wi-Fi lives. Sure, I could hotspot, but the nuance of built-in data is that it just works - without draining your phone's battery or skipping a beat. You're online, whenever there's no WiFi, and it's killer.Īlmost every time I've mentioned craving a laptop with LTE onboard, people ask me why I care when I have a phone already. It seems entirely underwhelming at first, particularly if you've used the original Go: I immediately thought 'is that it?' The magic, however, is in how smoothly it works: there's no configuration, poking about, connectivity glitches or anything to do. On the side of the device there's now a nano-SIM slot for obvious reasons, and popping a data-enabled SIM into the device instantly throws it online all the time. The LTE Advanced version of the Go features a single change from the original Surface Go I reviewed: surprise, it's a LTE modem.
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