Carphone Warehouse gets excited about the Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface Tablet

Those nice folk at Carphone Warehouse here in the UK dropped us an email this morn detailing their excitement following on from yesterdays Microsoft Surface tablet announcement.

According to Carphone Warehouse, the Surface volition 'trigger a new tablet race' which is quite perhaps truthful. With prices and dates still yet to be announced I hope that Microsoft either rectify that or at least proceed up the hype with Goggle box advertising etc.

With Carphone Warehouse being the largest independent mobile phone retailer in the Britain, with over 800 stores nationwide, it is sure to push button the Suface heavily. In its larger stores they already seem to sell every bit many tablets and notebooks every bit they do phones and then I see the 'Surface' being a great marketing tool for them.

Graham Stapleton, Main Commercial Officer at Carphone Warehouse, says,

"Microsoft's first foray into producing both tablet hardware and software is an exciting addition to the market, which has been relatively quiet over the last few months. Today'south news is really going to shake things up. Microsoft'due south Surface is going to entreatment across the existing tablet community and draw in new tablet users, particularly with the new Windows eight software. Microsoft Office functionality and the dual-purpose encompass keyboard should go downwardly well with professionals who may have been put off past affect screen keyboards in the past."

Graham adds that Microsoft has set the bar high. Noting that manufacturers are going to have to piece of work harder than ever to innovate and convince the customer that their tablet tin can pinnacle this. At that place'south lilliputian argument that the Surface is an heady production and it'southward overnice to see retailers get an early commencement at promoting the tablet.

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