MICROSOFT SURFACE:
Microsoft Surface is a planned series of tablet PCs designed and marketed by Microsoft. The
Surface is available in two versions, "Surface" and "Surface Pro". Surface will run the Windows
RT operating system and use an ARM CPU. Surface Pro will run the Windows 8 Pro operating
system and use an Intel CPU. The display is a 10.6-inch, 16:9 widescreen HD Display (Surface),
or Full HD Display (Surface Pro). The product was announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
at a Los Angeles event on June 18, 2012, at Milk Studios.
Surface is used as an interactive menu that recognizes multiple points of contact including both
human touch and the placement of objects on the screen. Human interaction with the device is
gesture-based, permitting the intuitive rearrangement and manipulation of content through
'hands-on' grabbing and sliding. The placement of certain objects on the display,
including compatible smartphones and storage devices, triggers automatic computer responses,
such as the transfer of digital content or the pulling up of device specifications
SMARTPHONES:
A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced
computing ability and connectivity than a feature phone The first smartphones mainly combined
the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone or camera phone. Today's
models also serve to combine the functions of portable media players, low-end compact digital
cameras, pocket video cameras, and GPS navigation units.
Modern smartphones includes high-resolution touchscreens, web browsers that can access and
properly display standard web pages rather than just mobile-optimized sites and high-speed data
access via Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. The most common mobile operating systems (OS) used
by modern smartphones include Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Nokia's Symbian, RIM's
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