Gadgetory

i'm dan farber editor at cnet and i'm joined by eric franklin from cnet a reviewer who was at the service event and what were your impressions it seemed like was more of a pre-announcement than the announcement of an actual product right well I did get to touch it so I guess that proves something right I got a very brief time to spend with it in this kind of back room we were all kind of funnel into this back room in groups of seven and there were like four stations back there and each station went into a different aspect of surface and at one station I did get a chance to spend maybe 20 seconds with the surface tablet where I got to swipe around a little bit before I was told to pass it on to the next person did you get any chance to check out the keyboard I did but I never got a chance to check out the keyboard when it was attached to a surface that was actually turned on all the guys chance to check out the keyboard when it was unattached to a surface or attached to a surface that wasn't turned on so I never got the complete typing experience which Microsoft did play up a lot in the presentation so what do we need to know before we get a better sense of whether the surface is a competitive product to the ipad or android devices a few important things like apps battery life price Microsoft's is going to be competitive with other tablets but we don't know what that means that can be anything so until we know what the price is going to be so we know what kind of app supports going to have until we know how long this thing's going to last on our lap we don't know how competitive is going to be against the iPad and other androids so so would you characterize this more as a prototype than an actual real product as something that Microsoft is using basically to freeze the markets a hey don't don't buy those iPads right now wait for this windows 8 system to come up I think Microsoft has every intent to release surface but I think that it also kind of works as a it can kind of galvanized at you know manufacturers who are working on windows 8 tablets to be like hey well we were kind of half-assing it but we've seen this surface stain the Microsoft's going full-tilt on this thing so maybe we should step up our game and come up with a real actual cool tablet well Eric I hope you get your hands on one of those surface units soon and we'll come back and talk to you I hope so too i'm really looking for to it great for Cena time dan farber thanks for watching