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CNET News - Surface Pro 4 gets an all-new pen

2015-10-06
let me introduce you the latest surface pen real quick I'm just going to walk you through the features it has a tail eraser it has this beautiful stiction to it so when you do a race from the back isn't that funny we finally put an eraser on it we give you a thousand and twenty four points of pressure on the tip of this pen thousand twenty four so when you press down and you know how that ink naturally flows out of your pen it'll flow out of this pen too you'll feel that it's beautiful we give you a full year of battery life there's two reasons for that one you know something about pens every now and then if you use it a lot you change the ink that seems reasonable that's the metaphor we don't want a rechargeable solution for you because we don't want you to lose that product up that productivity moment if you're in your flow you don't want to stop you want to worry that's what this pen is for but I wanted to show you what we're doing with this pen check this out so simple now let me show you the integration of the pen because that's what this is all about how you use the pen not just talking about the features of the pen I'm going to stand right here I'm going to click the pen and you're going to see what happens when OneNote opens up do you guys see that just a one click and here's one note I can write look how smooth the ink is coming out of my pen and then I can just erase you can see that easy erasing off the back and it feels like an eraser so that really brings it to life and then at any given time you guys have used this you can double click the pen and if you double click the pen what happens is OneNote makes a decision and this is that integration of office and one over on this product by the way there isn't a product on the planet that runs off of some one note as good as this product it's unreal now I can take whatever I want up this screen do you see how I clip that and I came to life let it go into drops into OneNote just like that and now I can ink on it and I can send this information to my kids or whoever I wanted to you've seen that that's pretty cool there's one more step here if you look down at the bottom is Cortana this is Windows 10 if I hold down my pen now in the most natural form I'm in it I have a tablet how do I want to call her how do I call Cortana you just hold the pen watch down here in the corner there tell me about the Microsoft store in Manhattan there it is came up which is kind of nice then you can see it there it is the search results where all I do is hold the button and I get back my search results that seems pretty smart but now I have edge that now I can write this is the beauty of the product so now at any time I can now write on the web the way I want to is that pretty cool so this is edge caring from here now what happened with all that content what happens it goes to my Lumia 950 and those things are connected and it is an absolute beautiful thing but why do you do all this what's the point it's not just for the Microsoft applications it's for others and we're seeing developers being spired right now traditional apps like Lightroom Photoshop Illustrator all touch and pen enabled awesome we're introducing five colors of the surface pen I hope you like them I think they're beautiful but even more important we're introducing interchangeable pen tips it changes everything it's like a ballpoint pen to a felt-tip pen to even a pencil take a look it feels phenomenal
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