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MICROSOFT HAS DECIDED to promote its latest tablet, the Surface Pro 3, by building a cardboard replica of it.
The company has been sending these cardboard tablets to a number of schools in Australia as part of a marketing campaign to get more classrooms using it, and mark its launch in 25 new countries tomorrow, according to The Verge.
The tablet is very limited in comparison to its real counterpart. An low-res MP4 player is placed inside the cardboard and powers a small part of the screen. It also comes with a mini USB port, which is mainly used to recharge the MP4 player.
The rest of the ‘screen’ is mainly cardboard, with clickable buttons to bring up different videos of the Surface 3.
Google, at its developer event back in June, gave out cardboard VR headsets to those attending. It required wearers to place an Android phone inside it and upload apps through the Chrome browser.
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I’m not sure what they are trying to proof with this…? That it’s so badly overpriced since you can make one out of nothing?
I know a few people with these, it depends what you want them for, just like with any device. You can get a 32GB Surface RT for €329, this offers similar functionality to an iPad but has a 1080P screen and MS Office. It offers USB and a micro SD card slot but cannot install software instead having to rely on Windows Apps.
A Surface Pro 3 with 128GB HD can be got for €1019, these come with a 4th gen i5 processor, a 2160×1440 resolution screen, 4GB RAM, a tasty aluminium touch pen and up to 9 hours of battery life. These models can install any software the user desires, a colleague uses a Surface Pro 2 for CAD with no problems. The build quality is excellent.
They won’t have much of a market for them in China…
China Is Building a National Operating System to Cut Out Microsoft and Google…
A national operating system? That might be true about cutting out google & MS, and I stress might! But I doubt they will build a brand new OS. Not the Chinese, sure why would they, their courts don’t even recognise international copy right laws…they copy Linux by putting a new skin on it & build some plugins that mimic MS program’s, totally different from building a brand new operating system
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