Microsoft Preparing Special Surface Tablet Event at Midnight October 26th

Microsoft is preparing for the big unveiling of Windows 8 and its associated tablets, taking place in a special event on October 26th, at midnight, as it was confirmed by MS itself. Microsoft already sent press invitations starting yesterday to the event, taking place in New York and kicking off at 10 am on October 25th and leading up to the midnight debut of the Surface on the 26th.

Other Microsoft Stores will start selling the device on October 26th and I guess that the products may be available as soon as midnight. Seeing how the PR machine over at Redmond works, I expect quite at crowd at the designed location, not an Apple launch type crowd, but still a decent queue of people. Also, it appears that Microsoft has another event ready, one that involves Windows Phone 8 and that one will go down on October 29th in San Francisco, so MS will have a busy end of October, by all indications.

We still have no prices for the Surface Tablet, last detailed by Steve Ballmer as priced at somewhere between $300 and $700 to $800, these being the sweet spot amounts of cash paid for the tablets. So, how much are you ready to shell for a Win RT Surface Tablet? How about the Win 8 Pro one?

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Apparently Has Jelly Bean on Board, New Details Surface

And here’s another batch of leaks related to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, the phablet that everyone is waiting for and that will be unveiled next week at IFA 2012 Berlin. Although initially we thought this model would launch with Android 4.0 ICS on board, it turns out that it will actually come with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on August 29th.

Korean publication Seoul Newspaper is behind this story, claiming that the Galaxy Note 2 will have the latest Android installed when it hits the stores later this year. The same source claims to have obtained the specs sheet for the upcoming handset, revealing the hardware features, that include a 5.5 inch Super AMOLED display with 720p resolution, a Exynos 4412 quad core CPU and an 8 megapixel rear camera. Listed as the GT-N7100, the device will come in 16GB and 32 GB versions and run Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean.
The specs sheet also mentions the presence of 3G and 4G LTE connectivity and a 16:9 aspect ratio for the display. The same source claims that the Galaxy Note 2 design won’t sport the same curves as its predecessor, that could protect the product from any potential lawsuits from Apple. So, once again keep your eyes peeled for the Unpacked event on the August 29th event, that will showcase the device.

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