18 December 2013

Surface mini comes with 1080p display and Kinect-like control

 

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(Surface Mini concept)

The Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro are still not on the market long , as new rumors have sprung up around a small offshoot of Microsoft's tablets. About 3 months ago was the last time mini spoken by the Surface, at that time in connection with the use of a Snapdragon SoC 800 and Windows RT 8.1 .

In terms of the processor or the operating system, we can provide you any new information. Yet in China, spill over rumors that the surface will be mini equipped with an 8-inch full HD display. Full HD means that the surface mini with an LG G Pad 8.3 or Google can compete. Although this is only a rumor, it is very likely that in the event the idea of a mini Surface, a correspondingly high resolution display is installed.

The second and much more exciting rumor relates to an input method when Surface mini. So it should be possible to control through Kinect-like gestures the tablet. Among other things, would wiping gestures to control the surface or Gallery conceivable, but also scrolling web pages or unlock the tablet with the face is within the range of the possible.

New these features would not be in the technical area. Samsung sat for the first time on the Galaxy S4 gesture controls , which allow countless features of your smartphone to control. So cannot be crawled galleries scrolled only through web pages or. By means of a "hover" effect of the finger can be opened with thumbnails of the actual images.

Microsoft does have the know-how and the technical requirements to use gesture controls. Remains to be seen whether, and especially when they find their way into the devices.

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