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it's time to dig deep into the surface I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the review is in for Microsoft's first tablet the surface the downsides the App Store is bare bones and it's slow when using Internet Explorer and that desktop mode feels like a useless feature for a tablet and can be hard to navigate with touch but there are good things about it the hardware is praised for being well built it comes with office 2013 and the keyboard cover accessories are handy way to get work done but that cover costs extra the surface might not be able to replace your laptop just yet for business you see it depends on the programs you need to use but it sure could be a laptop replacement if you only do basic tasks you may get annoyed by the lack of apps for entertainment and social networking the windows App Store is just slim pickins compared to the choices for Apple and Android of course we'll see more windows absent I'm the surface loaded with Windows RT hit stores Friday but a surface tablet with full windows 8 will arrive sometime next year and before you shop you should know the difference between Windows RT and Windows 8 there are many flavors you see of this new operating system you'll find many tablets and laptop tablet hybrids loaded with Archie you can think of it as Windows 8 light RT can only run Windows Store applications so you can't download just any program let's move from tablets two phablets if you wish your phone was a hybrid between a tablet and a phone then say hello to the galaxy note 2 and it's 5.5 inch screen which is now being sold at t-mobile for three hundred and seventy dollars with a new two-year contract yeah that's a pretty hefty price tag but it has more features and other smart phones like the built-in stylus pen and some extra productivity software 18t is going to sell the note for cheaper than t-mobile starting at three hundred dollars ATT is taking pre-orders Thursday but it arrives in stores November 9th and check out this new service called Chirpify the program which you purchased something that's posted on twitter or instagram just by replying with the word by sounds pretty extreme to complete a purchase with a quick one word social media reply but Chirpify has seen some success with low priced items Greenday used it to sell an album on twitter and within the first four hours 250 people bought the album through a tweet tattoo artist kat von d signed up to start selling her items on Instagram you'll likely see Chirpify more often as the holidays approach as a way to quickly donate to a cause but you have to first to give trip fi your paypal and shipping info before you go on a spending spree the company plans to expand this to tumblr and pinterest that your tech news update for today you can find links to all of today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey