Microsoft Surface Pro 4 will be launched on January 7, company sent invite

As Gadgets 360 told you last week, Microsoft will launch its Surface Pro 4 tablet in India in the first week of January. This American technology company has started sending media invites for an event to be held on January 7. It is worth noting that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, during his visit to India, had said that this device would be launched by January.

Remember that Surface Pro 4, which is considered to be the upgraded version of Surface Pro 3, was launched in the month of October. Its price in the international market starts from $ 899 (about Rs 59,000).

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 The tablet will come with a 12.3-inch (2736×1824 pixels) PixelTouch display. Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection is present on the display. The company says that its thickness is only 0.4 mm. A new stylus has also been launched. The company is calling it Surface Pen and it will come with an eraser. The new Surface Pen can detect 1,024 points of pressure. Surface Pen will come with Cortana integration.

The Surface Pro 4 tablet will come with multiple options of Intel’s sixth-generation Core processors. These include Core M3, Core i5 and Core i7. These configurations will have Intel HD Graphics 515, Intel HD Graphics 520 and Intel Iris Graphics respectively.

The company said that Surface Pro 4 is 30 percent faster than its predecessor Surface Pro 3 and 50 percent faster than Apple’s MacBook Air. The base model will have 4 GB RAM. Variants up to 16 GB RAM will be available. Apart from this, up to 1 TB storage (starting from 128 GB) will be available.

The device will come with a USB 3.0 port, Ethernet port, and a fingerprint scanner. It will also have two 4K Mini Display Ports. The company said that the battery of Surface Pro 4 can last up to 9 hours. Its rear camera is 8 megapixels and front camera is 5 megapixels.