{"id":1240,"date":"2013-09-24T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:41:04","slug":"new-microsoft-surface-2-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/new-microsoft-surface-2-accessories\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Surface 2 Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"edge-to-edge-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1242\" alt=\"Surface Covers\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/27133841\/surface-cover.jpg\" width=\"808\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/27133841\/surface-cover.jpg 808w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/27133841\/surface-cover-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/27133841\/surface-cover-770x494.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/27133841\/surface-cover-380x244.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/27133841\/surface-cover-800x513.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft took the wraps off its second-generation Surface tablets on September 23, and, as expected, the devices themselves offered incremental advances.<\/p>\n<p>For many, the supporting peripherals were the show stealers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a new Type Cover\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">(the one with actual keys)<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">, which boasts improved key presses, &#8216;silent typing&#8217;, a backlight and a new range of colours. There&#8217;s also now a Power Cover, which is a Type Cover with a 30-watt hour battery built in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also introduced the Touch Cover 2 (the one without keys), making it more rigid, adding a backlight, and also beefing up the sensors built into the cover (<span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">1092 touch sensors,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">up from 80 on the original).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They also showed off a modified touch cover called the\u00a0Surface Music Cover.\u00a0It&#8217;s a DJ-style cover with sliders, sampler buttons &amp; media controls.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s also a wireless keyboard adapter for the covers &amp; a docking station. There no Australian pricing as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet: Microsoft took the wraps off its second-generation Surface tablets on September 23, and,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[339,43,100,338],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}