Surface Touch Cover 2: Thinner and Sensitive Under Pressure
The new Touch Cover 2 for Microsoft's Surface tablets is much improved.
Besides the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets, Microsoft also debuted new keyboard accessories. The new Touch Cover 2 and Type Cover 2 are thinner than their predecessors and completely backlit. That's what one would expect from one generation to the next, but Microsoft has really innovated on the Touch Cover by going from 80 touch sensors in the first one to now 1092 sensors in Touch Cover 2. The sensors can also detect pressure, which means that the Touch Cover 2 is able to collect a lot more data than any traditional keyboard.
Best of all, the new keyboard covers are backwards compatible with the first generation of Surface tablets.
At the Surface even in New York, we got a demo from Steven Bathiche, director of Microsoft applied sciences, which we captured for your viewing pleasure below:
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are you freaking retarded? have you even used a surface?? besides the other functions of a bezel already mentioned, surface rt uses the bezel for many of the gestures such as closing an app(swipe from top bezel down), switching an app(swipe from left bezel right) etc, how else would you be able to complete these gestures without an bezel?
are you freaking retarded? have you even used a surface?? besides the other functions of a bezel already mentioned, surface rt uses the bezel for many of the gestures such as closing an app(swipe from top bezel down), switching an app(swipe from left bezel right) etc, how else would you be able to complete these gestures without an bezel?
are you freaking retarded? have you even used a surface?? besides the other functions of a bezel already mentioned, surface rt uses the bezel for many of the gestures such as closing an app(swipe from top bezel down), switching an app(swipe from left bezel right) etc, how else would you be able to complete these gestures without an bezel?
The type cover on the other hand... Now we're talking. I still prefer a Bluetooth keyboard since I can move it around apart from the tablet itself - which is very handy for when I'm using the Surface in my arm chair - but if the pricing weren't so bloody high, I'd probably pick up a type cover for my RT. My hope now is that they fire-sale the old covers with the new generation of covers coming out...
Either way a pre-order for the Pro 2 has been made
Either way a pre-order for the Pro 2 has been made
A broken watch tells the right time, twice a day!
Now we're talking innovation.
I picked up the Surface RT w/Touch for school (it was on sale and considerably discounted) and had the same reservations. My first week or so I found myself having troubles when I needed to backspace or type 'a' (buttons that I usually press with my pinkies). However, after a while I found myself adjusting and getting used to the location. I imagine that it is not something that most people can pick up right away, and can be a major turn off at first... but you eventually adapt to it. It's the same thing as when you buy a new keyboard that isn't quite the same layout as your old one.
This might sound weird as well, but I actually really like the absence of the audible sound of the key press. I've suddenly noticed how distracting 'loud' typers can be during lecture.
Despite the rudeness, wittermark does have a point. This is a Win8 device, and a number of the Win8 touch gestures do require a bezel to swipe from. Also, from a personal perspective, I have a Galaxy S4. It's a lovely phone; thin, with very little bezel. Unfortunately it often drives me nuts trying to type on as, unless I consciously keep my fingers behind the phone, sacrificing stability, they will often "overlap" the sides of the phone and hit the back key, or remove focus from the type window. A little bit *more* bezel might actually have been a good idea...