I had a wonderful time with the iPad 2 for nearly 3 years which I had picked on the release day itself .
The day iPad air was released , I went and played with it. The iPad air was incredibly light , thin ,fast and like every apple product smooth, and fluid to use .
Somehow in spite of everything being nearly perfect in the iPad for my requirements, the iPad air dint give me a "WOW " feeling.
Being a windows phone user (recently shifted to blackberry) for 3years , I closely follow windows phone and windows 8 development.
Last year I played with the surface 1 in USA , in fact a friend of mine picked one too . so having played around with it I knew perfectly what kind of the device it was i.e how powerful and how limited it was.
Once the new surface 2 came , I could see Microsoft had implemented all the required features hardware wise and software wise as per the feedback .
Full HD screen , USB 3.0port , thinner and a bit lighter , better battery life and most important windows 8.1 which takes the functionality to altogether on a different level .
Last week I was in Hong Kong and I picked up the surface 2 32gb version with cyan blue type cover 2 .
I had initially planned a black cover but in Hong Kong they had a black cover but with Chinese alphabets . After moving around in 3 stores I just got the blue cyan version . And me and my friends thought it was looking cool.
So far I have used it only for 4 days and my impressions have been as follows -
Extremely solid and well build product made out of magnesium alloy which Microsoft calls vapor mag .
Beautiful , crisp , sharp and colour rich full 1080p screen , watching movies is just joy on the surface 2 because of the 16:9 aspect ratio.
A full USB 3.0 port , I can hook every damn thing there from my camera , mic, keyboard, printer, mouse , anything and no need of any drivers .
Expandable shortage up to 64gb .
Free office 2013 .
Free 200gb SkyDrive storage .
Free one year Skype calling worldwide plus access to Skype WiFi hotspots .
Unlike the iPad I can download songs straight from the internet.
Beautifully designed apps from Microsoft likd bing news, weather , email , food and drinks , health , reader ,photo editor.
Full desktop class browsing , flash enabled . Extremely fast browser.
Easy to type onscreen keyboard , plus the typer cover 2 is fun to use too and being back lighted makes it more useful too .
2 stage kick stand is a killer feature too .
Virus free , no need to think and worry about viruses anymore .
The only con so far in 4 days of my use I found is , like all versions of window its is not as easy and straight forward to use like a iPad or a apple product .
And being based on the RT platform legacy apps wont work .(anyway I don't need any legacy apps , and for that I have my MacBook air )
The windows store has all the apps which I require and used on my iPad .
Facebook , flip board , Skype , eBooks reader . Photo editors , And in some cases the apps are better then iPad too for example the mail client , nook reader , and Facebook offer superior user experience in windows 8.1 .
Hyper and metro tube are youtube apps and offer superb youtube experience on the 1080p screen of the surface 2 plus they are ad free .
In coming days I will update along with pictures how it feels using a surface 2 everyday .
Here are some pictures of my new toy , THE SURFACE 2.
The day iPad air was released , I went and played with it. The iPad air was incredibly light , thin ,fast and like every apple product smooth, and fluid to use .
Somehow in spite of everything being nearly perfect in the iPad for my requirements, the iPad air dint give me a "WOW " feeling.
Being a windows phone user (recently shifted to blackberry) for 3years , I closely follow windows phone and windows 8 development.
Last year I played with the surface 1 in USA , in fact a friend of mine picked one too . so having played around with it I knew perfectly what kind of the device it was i.e how powerful and how limited it was.
Once the new surface 2 came , I could see Microsoft had implemented all the required features hardware wise and software wise as per the feedback .
Full HD screen , USB 3.0port , thinner and a bit lighter , better battery life and most important windows 8.1 which takes the functionality to altogether on a different level .
Last week I was in Hong Kong and I picked up the surface 2 32gb version with cyan blue type cover 2 .
I had initially planned a black cover but in Hong Kong they had a black cover but with Chinese alphabets . After moving around in 3 stores I just got the blue cyan version . And me and my friends thought it was looking cool.
So far I have used it only for 4 days and my impressions have been as follows -
Extremely solid and well build product made out of magnesium alloy which Microsoft calls vapor mag .
Beautiful , crisp , sharp and colour rich full 1080p screen , watching movies is just joy on the surface 2 because of the 16:9 aspect ratio.
A full USB 3.0 port , I can hook every damn thing there from my camera , mic, keyboard, printer, mouse , anything and no need of any drivers .
Expandable shortage up to 64gb .
Free office 2013 .
Free 200gb SkyDrive storage .
Free one year Skype calling worldwide plus access to Skype WiFi hotspots .
Unlike the iPad I can download songs straight from the internet.
Beautifully designed apps from Microsoft likd bing news, weather , email , food and drinks , health , reader ,photo editor.
Full desktop class browsing , flash enabled . Extremely fast browser.
Easy to type onscreen keyboard , plus the typer cover 2 is fun to use too and being back lighted makes it more useful too .
2 stage kick stand is a killer feature too .
Virus free , no need to think and worry about viruses anymore .
The only con so far in 4 days of my use I found is , like all versions of window its is not as easy and straight forward to use like a iPad or a apple product .
And being based on the RT platform legacy apps wont work .(anyway I don't need any legacy apps , and for that I have my MacBook air )
The windows store has all the apps which I require and used on my iPad .
Facebook , flip board , Skype , eBooks reader . Photo editors , And in some cases the apps are better then iPad too for example the mail client , nook reader , and Facebook offer superior user experience in windows 8.1 .
Hyper and metro tube are youtube apps and offer superb youtube experience on the 1080p screen of the surface 2 plus they are ad free .
In coming days I will update along with pictures how it feels using a surface 2 everyday .
Here are some pictures of my new toy , THE SURFACE 2.
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