Surface Pro 3, 4,5 suggestions

Hello, I have a few suggestions. The Surface Pro 3 is great but I would like to see this on the Surface Pro 4:

Dislike

Size: You should make a Surface Pro 2 sized version.

Start Button: you should have the 10 inch have the start button on the bottom, but have the 12 inch version to have it on the side.

Color: You should give people the choice between a black and white edition

Port Layout: I would like the smaller version to have the layout of the Surface Pro 2

Heat: You should make it run cooler

Battery: A bit more, please

Touch Cover: Please make a redesigned touch cover

Pen: Should make the back button erase, and the eraser button the launch button

Like

Kickstand: Good job Surface team.

Price: better already.

Processor: Should keep the choice.

When such a product can't match or better another product MSFT will lose those customers that would want GPS to work

There are customers that are on the deal breaker fence when GPS is not avail

To get GPS to work in Surface in general is a bigger hassle. this is something a customer should not have to experience

this would push a customer to buy android or apple product than to add a companion product to surface

gosh if a customer tries to add MSFT GPS n Maps ... he would find out the gps part won't work

so why is that MSFT won't add GPS capabilities like Android n Apple has??

is it blame Intel???

When such a product can't match or better another product MSFT will lose those customers that would want GPS to work

There are customers that are on the deal breaker fence when GPS is not avail

To get GPS to work in Surface in general is a bigger hassle. this is something a customer should not have to experience

this would push a customer to buy android or apple product than to add a companion product to surface

gosh if a customer tries to add MSFT GPS n Maps ... he would find out the gps part won't work

so why is that MSFT won't add GPS capabilities like Android n Apple has??

is it blame Intel???

I have to admit that part of the S3 Pro spec suprised me as well ("Digital Compass" vs. GPS), especially since my S Pro has GPS.

Lack of 3G/4G I can chalk up to Microsoft not wanting to negotiate some sort of account with a service provider, dealing with all the global bands, availability of tethering to dedicated hotspots or phones, etc. But single-chip GPS solutions they already had being removed I confess I did find surprising, although one could make the same argument about getting location from a tethered phone, if software supports this...

I'm also surprised they haven't announced a battery cover for the 12" keyboard design at the same time, especially with the spec bump to i7 processors available.  I do understand only having the "type" and not the "touch" cover for a larger unit intended to be more of a full laptop equivalent package.

Hi Richard Goldman,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community! We too are very excited about the Surface Pro 3 launch!

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I switched to the Surface Pro 3 the first day it was available.  I switched from a Sony Vaio Duo 11 which is a tablet hybrid.   My chief motivation in switching was to be able to use the stylus in a more relaxed manner.   I knew that both machines were based on the N-trig technology but MS trumpeted their work on the stylus quite a bit so I took a chance on the product with high hopes.  The hardware is fantastic.  Here are a few software changes that would make a world of difference. 

1) Swype style keyboard option.  On-screen-keyboard typing on my Samsung Android based tablet (which has this feature) is SO much easier!

2) Let me toggle the windows button off.  When I am resting my hand on the screen and writing with the stylus, the palm rejection feature does not reject the palm when it contacts the windows key so if my writing gets too far over to the right side of the screen, I suddenly and unintentionally find myself in the start menu.  Very annoying.  (and very foreseeable, btw)

3) Let me toggle touch off, perhaps using one of the buttons on the pen.  Apparently,  when I bring my hand to the screen to begin writing, my wrist gets there too early before the presence of the pen has been detected therefore before palm rejection has been triggered.  This must be deeply ingrained behavior.  I can overcome it for a while but whenever I relax and begin really enjoying this otherwise wonderful machine, this problem pops up again instantly changing it from a wonderful experience to a frustrating one.  (You will note that I had this same problem with the Duo 11 and it caused me to abandon that otherwise wonderful machine. )

Please do these things.  I really want to love this machine.  I do love it but right now it is a love-hate kind of thing.  With these changes, it will be a love-love kind of thing. 

When such a product can't match or better another product MSFT will lose those customers that would want GPS to work

There are customers that are on the deal breaker fence when GPS is not avail

To get GPS to work in Surface in general is a bigger hassle. this is something a customer should not have to experience

this would push a customer to buy android or apple product than to add a companion product to surface

gosh if a customer tries to add MSFT GPS n Maps ... he would find out the gps part won't work

so why is that MSFT won't add GPS capabilities like Android n Apple has??

is it blame Intel???

It's not that big of the deal. You can get a USB one.

Like this one

Hello Surface team. Listen up por favor!!

1)Must have a pen silo on the Tablet it self. There has to be a way to store the pen on the tablet . No two ways around it. 

2) Bring back TIP (Tablet Input Panel)  for Desktop. It worked before and it worked great. No more manually bringing up the OSK for desktop.

Totally agree with these two.