Analyst: Microsoft Sold 1 Million Units of Surface RT On Q4 2012

(GSM Insider) - Analyst: Microsoft Sold 1 Million Units of Surface RT On Q4 2012.

Microsoft introduced the Surface RT on October last year. There are many people that interested to know Microsoft sold how much Surface RT between October to December 2012. 

According to analyst from UBS, Brent Thrill stated that Microsoft has sold only 1 million units of Surface tablet last quarter. Despite the low sales, he remains optimistic on the Surface product line.

The 1 million units sales are definite far behind the iPad of Apple. But Surface is a new brand from Microsoft, it takes time for a brand to be established. The sales will follow after the Surface brand becomes a household name. 

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Microsoft Reveal The Pricing of Surface Pro, 64GB at $899 and 128GB at $999

(GSM Insider) - Earlier today, Microsoft revealed the pricing of upcoming Surface Pro tablet. Surface Pro is the Microsoft brand tablet that runs on Windows 8.

Surface General Manager Panos Paney confirmed the pricing of Surface Pro. The Microsoft Surface Pro 64GB priced at $899 and you can get the 128GB version for extra $100 added. The Surface Pro is yet to on sales as the cousin, Surface RT already on sale.

The Surface Pro brings some addition features that are different from the Surface RT. Surface Pro powered by Intel Core-i5 processor, the display size is 10.6-inch with 1080p Full HD resolution, full size USB 3.0 and others. 

Surface Pro is more toward a laptop while the Surface RT is more toward the tablet although both with keyboard docking. 

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Microsoft Supports Surface With Windows RT Until 2017

(GSM Insider) - Ever think of how long Microsoft going to support the Windows RT on your Surface tablet? The answer is 4 years.

This is the statement from Microsoft regarding the Surface RT issue:

Microsoft's current policies offer "a minimum of ... four years Mainstream Support for Consumer Hardware products."

During the Mainstream Support phase, "Hardware repairs or replacements and parts are available throughout the support lifecycle. Services are free for products under warranty and available for a fee for products out of warranty. ... Updates are available for the software/firmware and OS that is embedded into the hardware (except for Surface devices, which is covered by the support lifecycle policy for the Operating System on the device)."

Additional details are available in this FAQ, which notes: "For Surface devices, any Surface software installed, embedded or downloaded on the device is subject to the software lifecycle support policy for that software (unlike other HW devices such as Xbox). ... The hardware support lifecycle policy applies only to the Surface hardware (and as stated above not the Surface software). For Surface devices, that policy affects only the tablet device and hardware based accessories (and for example not to soft goods accessories such as cases)."

This is not a bad news for Surface RT users as the support offers up to 2017. But this is not something bad. With the technology changing so rapid. There are people who not even used the tablet for 4 years so long time. Most of the people changed their tablets in just 2 years.

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Microsoft Surface RT Tablet On Sales In Malaysia, Priced From RM2399

(GSM Insider) - The Microsoft brand Surface tablet now on sales in Malaysia. It is the first ever tablet from Microsoft itself with the Surface brand. Im sure you can wait to get your hand on it. 

Microsoft Surface RT tablet comes with 10.6-inch ClearType HD display, Tegra 3 quad-core processor, Windows RT operating system and 2GB of RAM. It comes together with Black Touch Cover.

According to online retailer, the warranty for this product is one month. There are two versions available as Surface RT 32GB priced at RM2399 and Surface RT 32GB priced at RM2749. 

Note: GSM Insider is not related to these retailers, so you purchase everything with your own responsible. 

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Microsoft Preparing Surface Brand Windows Phone 8 Devices, Manufactured by Foxconn?

(GSM Insider) - Microsoft might follow the footsteps of Google by introduce own brand smartphone. Just look at the Nexus smartphones from Google. LG Nexus 4 is one of the hottest Android device in the market. 

According to latest source, Microsoft really interested in developing own brand smartphone. It was predicted that Microsoft will continue to use the Surface brand for its smartphone-line. So it might name as the Surface Phone or Microsoft Surface Phone. The source also stated the Microsoft Surface Phone going to manufacture by Foxconn. 

Everything is yet to confirm by Microsoft or Foxconn. It needs sometimes for Microsoft to think about the possible ways to emulate the success of Nexus smartphones. We might see Microsoft Surface Phone with Windows Phone versus Google Nexus with Android soon. 

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