Microsoft sticks out its chest with the Surface Dial and launches a series of videos where it shows us its possibilities

The recent presentation during the Microsoft Event on the 26th left many of us speechless. Microsoft had achieved what no one thought a few years ago. Take the initiative and innovate as Apple used to do, presenting innovative products that have not left anyone indifferent

And it is that you can like more or less an ecosystem but being objective both the Surface Studio and the Surface Book i7 they left no one indifferentTwo tremendous devices that were accompanied by a relatively curious gadget that responds to the name of Surface Dial

To refresh your memory a bit or in case you didn't see it, the Surface Dial is an accessory designed to get more out of the Surface Studioand that is also compatible with the Surface Pro 3 and the Surface Pro 4. It is a circular device, like a selection wheel similar to a volume control that we will place on the screen of these devices or next to them .

In one case with more benefits and in another with less, thanks to the Surface Dial we are going to acquire a series of extra functionalities that are especially designed to improve productivity in the professional field, being the design and retouching from a computer the fields that can be seen most benefited. It's like a kind of evolution of digitizing tablets.

The Surface Dial, as expected, was not going to be cheap and although it cannot be purchased for now, it can be reserved at the Microsoft Store in the United States at a price of $99.And of course, after seeing the possibilities that Microsoft offers, they have seen that its sales potential is great, so it is best to announce its benefits in different videos .

On the Surface Youtube channel we can see the possibilities offered by the Surface Dial for areas such as editing, design, education, multimedia control...a huge range that can hopefully be expanded in the future as the different applications become compatible. In fact, some already are, such as Windows, Office Win32, OneNote, Windows Maps, Plumbago, Sketchpad, Groove Music, PewPew Shooter, Microsoft Photos, Sketchable, Spotify…

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We have seen six videos in which you can appreciate some of the possibilities that Surface Dial will offer and the truth is, if the applications know how to get all the potential that it hides, the truth is that we can be facing a most interesting accessoryWe really liked this gadget that seems to be taken from a science-fiction novel, but do you think that the Surface Dial can give a lot of play?"

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