Trouble
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With October 26th looming on the horizon and the release of the all new, much touted (already) Microsoft "Surface", I am wondering if Microsoft is once again missing the proverbial boat.
Marketing thus far seems to be very WOW factor oriented. Looks good, feels good, runs great, does everything. Ultra portable, ultra mobile, enterprise ready, the tech road warrior's dream machine, etc., etc.
Yet I can find no information anywhere that suggests that this ultra mobile device contains any 4G or for that matter 3G component. As a matter of fact everything that I have been able to find so far suggests that the device will be WiFi only. So I'm not sure that this device will fill the bill for today's typical ultra mobile, tech road warrior.
Perhaps they have left that door open for their OEM partners to fill, as I see that Lenovo is already announcing a Win8 Tablet with both 3G and 4G component options. Or perhaps the all new Microsoft "Surface 2" will include such options. It just seems to me that if Microsoft was indeed serious (as it would seem they are), regarding their move to hardware manufacturing with respect to new Windows 8 devices, they might have taken the extra time and made the extra effort to cover all the bases with their initial offering, instead of giving consumers yet another excuse or reason to wait and see what might come next.
Marketing thus far seems to be very WOW factor oriented. Looks good, feels good, runs great, does everything. Ultra portable, ultra mobile, enterprise ready, the tech road warrior's dream machine, etc., etc.
Yet I can find no information anywhere that suggests that this ultra mobile device contains any 4G or for that matter 3G component. As a matter of fact everything that I have been able to find so far suggests that the device will be WiFi only. So I'm not sure that this device will fill the bill for today's typical ultra mobile, tech road warrior.
Perhaps they have left that door open for their OEM partners to fill, as I see that Lenovo is already announcing a Win8 Tablet with both 3G and 4G component options. Or perhaps the all new Microsoft "Surface 2" will include such options. It just seems to me that if Microsoft was indeed serious (as it would seem they are), regarding their move to hardware manufacturing with respect to new Windows 8 devices, they might have taken the extra time and made the extra effort to cover all the bases with their initial offering, instead of giving consumers yet another excuse or reason to wait and see what might come next.
