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Reported at Anandtech, Microsoft Announces the Surface Pro 4, from $900:
The display retails the 3:2 aspect ratio of the SP3 but boasts a '5 million pixel display', or 2736x1824 in numbers, with PixelSense. Each display is 100% sRGB with individual calibration, but also features 10-point multitouch. [...] Prices will start from $900 and go up to [$2700], with pre-orders starting on October 7th. Devices will be available from October 26th, but Microsoft failed to mention which regions they would be available, so given the price information we could assume it might be a US/NA initial launch at this point with other regions to follow.
Prices may start at $900, but escalate to $2700 for a tablet with an Intel Core i7, extra SSD storage, and 16 GB of RAM. Going from $900 to $1000 swaps the Intel Core m3 for an i5 chip with around triple the TDP.
Alongside Surface Pro 4, Microsoft is launching a Surface Book 2-in-1 laptop. The 13.5" display is detachable, and the keyboard/base houses an NVIDIA GPU (in most configurations) as well as batteries and ports. Surface Book shares the same 3:2 aspect ratio with Surface tablets. Prices range from $1499 to $2699.
Microsoft has announced a HoloLens Developer Edition augmented reality device, which is set to be released in Q1 2016 for $3000:
If developers are still interested in grabbing a HoloLens kit, they can start applying today. Applicants can only request a maximum of two devices, must reside in the United States or Canada, and participate in the Windows Insider program. Even after the applications, you won't find out until you're approved to pre-order HoloLens until January 2016. After that, HoloLens will ship sometime in the first quarter of 2016.
From The Register:
"HoloLens is packed with space age technology," enthused Terry Myerson, Microsoft's windows and devices group veep. "We've got see-through high definition lenses, spatially-aware sound, movement sensors and custom built silicon. And it's fully untethered."
The HoloLens team demoed a new game Microsoft has been working on, dubbed Project X-Ray. The headset maps out a living room and then superimposes robots breaking through walls while the player shoots them with a hologramatic gun wrapped around their hand. As gameplay goes, it was a pretty basic demo, featuring lots of funky graphics but nothing earth-shattering. Yet, with the right developers, Microsoft might well have a winner on its hands.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by gman003 on Thursday October 08 2015, @12:53PM
The new Lumia phones actually have one particularly interesting feature: pair a wireless mouse and keyboard, and hook it up to a monitor, and it switches the UI to the regular desktop mode.
The app support is pretty limited - they're still ARM phones, so no x86 compatibility - but I can already see this being useful as a business phone. Hook it up to a projector, and bam. There's your Powerpoint machine.
(I won't be getting one myself, but it certainly seems interesting)
(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Thursday October 08 2015, @03:12PM
You mean you won't be getting one by choice... if that little tidbit of info catches on with upper management it will doom us all... "You mean we don't have to give them laptops so they can email and do PowerPoint?." Which to be fair is reasonable reaction. Using a full laptop for a lot of the tasks is overblown. The reason why most of these work laptops are barely fast enough to do these simple tasks is all the shit that is put in them to keep them from doing anything but those things.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday October 08 2015, @04:48PM
Get a 5.7" phone and add a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you are ready for PPT.
Strap it to your face and you are ready for Immersive® PowerPoint.
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(Score: 2) by Celestial on Thursday October 08 2015, @04:14PM
The new Lumia 950 looks like a really nice smartphone. Shame about the OS though.