14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has also improved the display available on the second-generation Surface tablet, with both the RT and the Pro now coming with 10.6-inch ClearType HD screens and a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Stevie Bathiche, Microsoft scientist and head of the Applied Science team, talks about all these improvements in a new video posted on the Surface blog, saying that the new display has been designed in such a way that reflection is dramatically reduced.
“The display on the new devices is gorgeous, and the engineering work to produce gorgeousness isn’t trivial. It requires focus on far more than pixel count – things like size and aspect ratio, optical bonding of the display to the cover glass for reduced reflection, contrast ratio, viewing angles, color depth, gray scale, color reproduction, luminance, and backlight uniformity,” Microsoft says.
Both the Surface 2 and the Surface Pro 2 are already on sale, with pricing starting at $449 (€360) for the entry-level version running Windows RT 8.1 and featuring 32 GB of storage space.