Microsoft announced an upcoming event on September 22nd at 11 a.m ET, where is going to unveil new Surface laptops, maybe the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop 4, and probably the Surface Duo 2. The laptops will run Windows 11.
We think the company will live stream the event, perhaps on Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter.
Microsoft today unveiled the new Surface laptop to ship in June 15, 2017 in 4 versions and 4 colors . Two with Intel Core i5 chip and two with Intel Core i7 chip. Prices and configurations you can see on the picture below and for pre-orders you can scroll down to this page here and find the respective links. The 4 colors available are. Burgundy, Platinum, Cobalt Blue and Graphite Gold.
Nokia Windows RT 10.1 inch Tablet with HDMI, USB ports and battery on keyboard cover, coming.
In March 28,2102 we reported Nokia was working on a Windows tablet rumored at that time as Nokia Lumia Coffee Tab , that probably was just a concept, as you can see on the video below:
Nokia now is said to plan packing the Windows RT 10.1 inch Tablet device with a cover
similar to the one Microsoft used for Surface, and to include HDMI and
USB ports on it.
The cover will include not only a keyboard, two
USB ports and a kickstand for the tablet, but also a battery that will
further extend the usage time of the device.
Also featuring cellular connectivity inside, the device is expected to make an official debut at AT&T in the United States.
Nokia’s Windows RT tablet PC is expected to boast a
10-hour capacity. Apparently, the handset vendor is planning to
manufacture only a small number of this device, but is also looking at
the launch of a Windows 8-based slate at a later date.
Recent reports have suggested that Nokia may unveil its tablet at Mobile World Congress in February.
You can connect a printer to the Surface tablet via USB port, has HDMI out, micro SD slot allowing up to 64GB of storage.
Surface with Windows RT has, Quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 and 2GB RAM, while the Surface with Windows 8 has a 3rd Gen Intel Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000, 4GB RAM — Dual Channel Memory.
iPad 3rd Gen has a 1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, Apple A5X, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, a PowerVR SGX543MP4 for the GPU, and 1.46 lbs.
Microsoft Windows 8 and Surface tablet Full Keynote October 25th. Video.
Microsoft today launched Windows 8 and demos it on several OEMs devices. After that shows up the new Surface tablet and CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage. Watch the full Keynote.
The hardware cost of Surface RT is at US$300-400 and US$400-500 for the x86 version. Since the devices will not need to pay the licensing fee for the operating system. The RT version will be priced below US$399, while the x86 version is estimated to be US$100-200 higher based on hardware costs and priced at US$500-700.
Since CEO Steve Ballmer in a recent interview pointed out that a price level between US$300-800 will be the sweet spot for PC sales, some market watchers have interpreted the statement as a hint for Surface pricing.
MSFT subsidies could mean US$499 Surface price and death for Android tablets,says Analyst.
The analysts’ WitsView service recently published a note in which
research director Eric Chiou says that Surface devices’ 32GB of storage
is a higher spec than that on most ten-inch Android tablets, justifying a
higher price of US$599.
At that price Chiou feels Surface will “inevitably cannibalize
ultrabook sales” and goes on to say that “Microsoft may not be pleased
to see a competition between its own products.” Consumers may also be
confused by the overlapping prices.
One way out, Chiou suggests, is for Microsoft to dip into its
colossal trove of cash and subsidise Surfaces so they emerge to US$499, a
ploy he says the company has done before when it took XBOX to market.
The results of that subsidy program speak for themselves, as XBOX is now
the number one console. A US$499 price would also slot surface in
nicely between the iPad and ultrabooks.
Such subsidies could be bad news for Android tablet players, with Chiou offering the following scenario:
Surface may stand out in the market by sacrificing profits or getting
subsidies from Microsoft, while the remaining brands are unlikely to
possess the ability and will to do so. Undoubtedly, customers are
expected to take the price of Surface as a benchmark for every single
prospective Windows 8 tablets; that is, Microsoft’s Surface with an
intentionally lowered price may decrease the price flexibility that
affects its brand partners’ earning capacity, and even further impact
their desire to launch new products.
That’s not all good news for Microsoft, as fewer or less-happy
tablet-makers also means fewer potential Windows 8 tablet manufacturers.
WitsView nonetheless predicts that of the 94 million tablets it expects to be sold in 2012, four million will run Windows 8.
That’s decent uptake, however, as the new devices are tipped to
emerge on October 26th. If we work on crude averages alone, without
accounting for sales spikes pre-Christmas, four million Windows 8 slabs
in sixty-odd days will represent at least 15% of tablets sold in the
most-frenzied months of the selling cycle
Press Release:
TrendForce: Surface to Enter the Tablet PC Market, Pricing Strategy Challenging, Ultrabook Cannibalization Likely
Then the PC industry is putting efforts into
developing Win 8 tablets, Microsoft chose to take the lead by releasing its
branded Surface tablet PC, showing a purpose in supporting its new OS
(operating system) and further increasing prominence of Windows 8 tablet PCs.WitsView, a research division ofTrendForce, indicates that the introduction of
Surface has made a stir to the tablet PC market and is projected to dominate the
market outlook with its veiled pricing.
WitsView’s
research director, Eric Chiou, notes that Surface adopts a 10.6” HD (1366 x
768) and Full HD (1920 x 1080) panel, while the built-in storage capacity of
its entry-level model is directly upgraded from mainstream 16GB to 32GB,
posting a higher specification in both size and hardware compared to a
mainstream 10.1” Android tablet PC, making the reasonable pricing of Surface to
start at $599 at least in response to the higher cost. Inevitably, the higher
price may not only hold back some interested buyers, but also overlap with the
price of ultrabook, Microsoft and Intel’s hit of this year. Surface is designed
to mirror notebook functions, stressing the convenience of an ultra-thin
keyboard; thus, once its price is set, Surface is expected to inevitably
cannibalize ultrabook sales. Microsoft may not be pleased to see a competition
between its own products.
On the other hand, low-pricing strategy
could be also practical. Eric Chiou points out that Microsoft’s significant
capital is indisputable; in the past, Microsoft decreased product prices
through subsidy programs and successfully secured the dominance of Xbox360 in
the home entertainment market in a short time. By duplicating the marketing
strategy and applying it on Surface, a pricing drop to $499, close to
mainstream tablet PC price such as iPad and Android is possible. Along with the
prominent specification and modest price, Surface is expected to trigger
consumer spending, shortening the time to popularize Windows 8 tablet and
further leading its brand partners to have better performance in selling and
promoting Windows 8 tablet PCs.
On the downside,WitsViewbelieves that a strong subsidy program
may simultaneously shorten the time required to expand the market share while
bringing about the risk of misleading consumers to incorrect price. Due to
higher authorization fees for the operating system, cost gap between Windows 8
and Android tablet PC exists to a certain extent. Surface may stand out in the
market by sacrificing profits or getting subsidies from Microsoft, while the
remaining brands are unlikely to possess the ability and will to do so.
Undoubtedly, customers are expected to take the price of Surface as a benchmark
for every single prospective Windows 8 tablets; that is, Microsoft’s Surface
with an intentionally lowered price may decrease the price flexibility that
affects its brand partners’ earning capacity, and even further impact their
desire to launch new products. Thus, Microsoft may be facing more obstacles
when duplicating its successful experience in the PC market to the tablet PC
market once it loses support from its powerful partners.
In terms of the impact of Surface on
2012 tablet PC market,WitsViewconcludes that while Windows 8 models’
joining the tablet market was well expected, the introduction of a single model
is temporarily unlikely to change the estimated market size before Surface
pricing is determined. WitsView restates that tablet PC market is expected to
reach 94 million units in 2012, among which Windows 8 OS is projected to
achieve 4.3% penetration rate, equal to shipments of 4 million units.
Microsoft Surface two tablets models specifications,Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro.
Surface features a 10.6" ClearType Full HD display, as well as full
sized USB ports and HDMI output. Microsoft also showed off the Type
Cover, a screen protector that features a full laptop style keyboard and
track pad, expected to launch alongside Surface.
Microsoft has announced two Surface models so far, one for Windows RT, the other for Windows 8 Pro.
Specifications
Windows RT
ARM Chipset
Weight: 676 g (23.8 oz)
Thickness: 9.3 mm (0.36 in)
Battery: 31.5 W-h
Connections: microSD, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2X Wifi Antennae
Included in purchase: Office Home & Student, Touch Cover, Type Cover
Case details: VaporMg case and stand
Memory: 32 GB, 64 GB
Windows 8 Pro
Intel 22nm Ivy Bridge chipset: Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor (at least in the model on display today),
Weight: 903 g (31.8 oz)
Thickness: 13.5mm (0.53 in)
Battery: 42 W-h
Connections: microSDXC, USB 3.0, Micro DisplayPort, 2X Wifi Antennae
Included in purchase: Pen with Palm Block, Touch Cover, Type Cover
Built by Samsung, and is thin and light enough to be hung on a wall. The SUR40 has a 40 inch screen under a massive piece of Gorilla Glass. Samsung was able to shrink the size of the SUR40 thanks to something called PixelSense, which turns an LCD display to also act as a camera. This allows the Surface to not only act as a touchscreen, but also to see what is touching the screen.
Under the screen there is a dual-core AMD Athlon processor paired with an AMD GPU. This combo allows Surface to handle up to 50 simultaneous touch points, and still output a pretty picture. The SUR40 is available for pre-order through Samsung, but don’t expect to see these hitting retail stores. At this price (around US$7.000) point it will most likely remain a special order product with the focus on commercial installments.
Features:
PixelSense™ PixelSense™ allows an LCD display to recognize fingers, hands, and objects placed on the screen, including more than 50 simultaneous touch points. With PixelSense™, pixels in the display see what’s touching the screen and that information is immediately processed and interpreted.
Microsoft® Surface® Microsoft® Surface® provides business customers a premier touch-first experience for their end-users, built on the principles of direct interaction and together computing, with a new look and feel. It also allows commercial application developers to use a new version of the Microsoft® Surface® SDK and familiar Microsoft development tools to take full advantage of the massive multi-touch and object recognition capabilities of PixelSense™ and deliver experiences not possible on any other platform.
40-Inch High-Definition Screen The 40-inch high-definition screen enables unparalleled multi-touch, multi-user experience with a 1080p, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 display.
Thin Form Factor with Multiple Configuration Options The product is four inches thin, which makes it easy to use in a horizontal deployment, hang on the wall with the VESA mount, or embed in walls or custom enclosures. There are standard legs available or a customer can design and attach their own.
Powerful Embedded System The product uses the embedded AMD Athlon™ II X2 Dual-Core Processor 2.9GHz paired with AMD HD6750M GPU featuring DirectX® 11 support to deliver significant processing horsepower and outstanding graphics capability.
Model
Surface
Pannel
Diagonal Size
40"
Resolution
1,920 x 1,080
Viewing Angle(H / V)
178 / 178° (CR ≥ 10)
Network
GPU
AMD HD6750M
CPU
Athlon X2 Dual-Core 245e (2.9GHz)
Mechanical Spec
Dimension(W/O Stand)
1,095 x 102.5 x 707.4 mm
Weight (Set/Package)
39.5 kg / 45.4 kg
* Features and specifications are subject to change without prior notification.
Press Release:
New Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface Is Available to Pre-order Starting Today.
A second, more retail-friendly version of Microsoft Surface is now available for pre-order in 23 countries. Earlier this week, Popular Science named the Samsung SUR40 a 2011 “Best of What’s New” award recipient.
REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 17, 2011 – Retail outlets looking for new, innovative ways to get hands-on with their customers will soon have a new tool – the Samsung SUR40.
Companies are already using Microsoft Surface to give potential customers virtual tours of plane interiors, help them plan flights, provide them with the ability to create immersive photo books, and entice bank customers into brick and mortar branches. Those experiences only hint at how the new Surface device will be able to help businesses engage with customers, said Somanna Palacanda, director of Microsoft Surface.
“With what's happening in the world of touch and the fact that touch is becoming ubiquitous, people are looking for more immersive relationships with screens,” he said. “The new Surface takes technology that’s always existed in the backs of stores and brings it front and center. So now customers and retailers can interact together, a doctor and a patient can have a more immersive consulting experience, and a banker and a customer can sit together and work on a simulation where in past the banker would be the only one in control.”
Samsung and Microsoft announced today that a new, more versatile Microsoft Surface device is now available for pre-order, the near final stop on its journey from lab to marketplace. Now, businesses in 23 countries can visit the Samsung website to find a local reseller and place an order for the Samsung SUR40. Shipments are expected to start early next year.
The Samsung SUR40 was just named a 2011 “Best of What’s New” award winner by Popular Science magazine and is featured in a special awards issue currently on newsstands. Corinne Iozzio, senior associate editor at Popular Science, said the magazine’s editors were impressed with the update to the original Surface, a 2008 “Best of What’s New” winner.
“We very much liked the idea of the package of the Surface, which had packed so much computing intelligence and so much sensor technology into such a thin package,” she said. “It's a tabletop that can be put anywhere without harming the functionality and in fact makes a system like the Surface much more accessible.”
The Samsung SUR40 also earned strong praise by the likes of Forbes and Gizmodo when released at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year.
Palacanda said the new Surface device incorporates all the key features of the original – a massive multi-touch screen, the ability to recognize fingers, blobs, and objects – as well as PixelSense, a new technology that lets LCD panels “see” without the use of actual cameras. The technology has helped slim down the second version of the Surface device and enables a new form factor – one that can be turned on its side. With a screen that’s only four inches thin, customers will have the option to use the Samsung SUR40 horizontally as a table, hang it on a wall, or embed it into furniture, Palacanda said.
“We listened to our partners and customers’ requests for a lighter and thinner form factor that gives them flexibility because there’s no one-size-fits-all in the retail space,” he said.
Several existing Surface customers, including Dassault Aviation, Fujifilm Corp. and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), plan to use the Samsung SUR40 in locations around the globe early next year. RBC is already using the first version of Surface as a new medium to engage with its customers, Palacanda said.
He explained that RBC is redesigning their stores to offer customers a new retail experience, where Surface is playing an important part. For example, RBC launched a direct mail campaign to invite their customers into their stores through a sweepstakes. When customers visit, they drop their brochure onto the Surface machine to find out if they’ve won a prize. At the same time, RBC employees can use Surface to highlight the bank’s products and services.
The results encouraged RBC, Palacanda said. A typical direct mail response rate is less than 1 percent; RBC is seeing a conversion of above 10 percent.
“We've always spoken about collaboration from a computing standpoint, but before Microsoft Surface we truly did not have a device where two or more people could actually engage together with the same piece of digital content,” Palacanda said. “I think this announcement is the first step in delivering a next generation device that improves even further on the original Surface experience, which enables two or more people to collaborate in a very meaningful way.”
The new device is also popular with developers, said Luis Cabrera-Cordón, senior program manager for Microsoft Surface. The Surface 2.0 software developer kit (SDK) was released at MIX11 in April, and already it’s been downloaded more than 7,000 times.
The SDK features an input simulator that enables developers to write Surface applications on any Windows 7 PC, an approach Cabrera-Cordón called “Write once, touch anywhere.”
“The SDK allows developers to write a single application that can adapt to all sorts of types of hardware,” he said. “That makes for a great investment: they can target Microsoft Surface hardware as well as any Windows 7 touch-enabled PC. This is a flexible platform so developers can create the best user interface for the person actually using the computer.”
Cabrera-Cordón encouraged developers to download the SDK and start building apps as the Samsung SUR40’s release date draws near.
“Touch apps are an area that is new. There is a lot to discover and innovate on,” Cabrera-Cordón said. “And I hope that by playing with the Surface 2.0 SDK, they’ll discover they can innovate and create things that we don’t have today.”
