Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro: Hotter, Thicker, Faster, Louder

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Feb 01 - Feb 08 Features Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro: Hotter, Thicker, Faster, Louder by Peter Bright Microsoft's first ever computer, the Surface with Windows RT (or "Surface RT" as I will henceforth call it) is a mixed bag. The design and build quality both impress, and Microsoft's twin typing solutions—the 3mm no-moving-parts Touch Cover and the 6mm real keyboard-equipped Type Cover—are remarkably effective. Read More Features Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never by Florence Ion Late last year, Samsung was the number one handset manufacturer on the Android side. Samsung and Apple accounted for 50 percent of the world's handset market share. BlackBerry, once the go-to business phone for just about every major company in the world, seemed to be tottering around on its last leg. As the company lost most of the world's smartphone market share, many looked BlackBerry's way and wondered what the Canada-based corporation was going to do to save itself. Read More Gear & Gadgets An imperfect ten: the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone review by Andrew Cunningham In many ways, I'm maybe a bit unqualified to write a review of new BlackBerry hardware. I've never owned a BlackBerry device, and have only poked at a few over my years as an IT person—iPhone and Android handsets tended to be more popular even among the professional set. I have a passing familiarity with the Bolds and Curves that compose the company-formerly-known-as-RIM's pre-BlackBerry 10 product line, but my time as a smartphone owner began after the sun had set on the BlackBerry empire. Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Latest iOS jailbreak: Nearly 7 million served Successor to LG’s Optimus G might feature 1080p, massive battery pack The handy list of Ars Technica editors and writers on Twitter Macmillan, sole e-book publishing holdout, settles with Justice 4chan creator looks to move creativity beyond the rageface with new app Cause of Super Bowl blackout was installed to prevent Super Bowl blackout Bush family privacy shattered after e-mails, photos exposed online Texas school board searching for “another side” to theory of evolution At long last, TI releases graphing calculator for the iPad The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at garn14.tech@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.