How's Surface doing? We've been asking ourselves that question a lot lately, as Microsoft's big foray into tablets has found itself arriving under intense scrutiny. There were the big huff over Steve Ballmer's comments this time last month, where reports that he described Surface sales as "modest" were later clarified to claim he was talking about the state of Microsoft’s supply of the tablet. More recently, we heard that the Surface Pro might arrive early to offset poor RT sales, but Microsoft has instead stuck with a early 2013 release. What we need are some real numbers to look at. ...

Around here, we're no stranger to the Surface RT, Microsoft's first home-sourced tablet and perhaps Windows 8's most visible public embodiment. Our own Brandon Miniman gave it the full review treatment a few weeks back and found it a "problematic product," noting that it tries to deliver both a casual touch experience and a desktop-like environment for "real work," but ultimately fails at both. Despite the controversial nature of that assertion (at least here in our comments section), it's been reinforced by fair-to-middling reviews from other outlets, confusing statements from Microsoft's ...

The Surface RT has made its debut, and with Microsoft confirming Surface Pro pricing and January availability yesterday, that model is well on its way to becoming a reality, as well. After that, though, then what? These are still probably a long way off, but some new rumors are attempting to take a stab at what hardware Microsoft's looking at for its next wave of Surface devices, and they suggest that this time we could be getting three models instead of two. While the first two Surface tablets have different resolutions, they both share the same 10.6-inch screen dimension. According to ...

Some recent rumors have suggested that Microsoft might be thinking about speeding-up the release of the Windows 8 Pro version of its Surface tablet, in an effort to generate some consumer interest following a less-than-glowing reception for the Surface RT model. Well, according to Microsoft, those rumors of a December release are off, and we're still looking at a January launch, instead. While the company hasn't revealed a specific date just yet, it had some other Surface Pro details to share, finally disclosing pricing info. Microsoft sells the Surface RT 32GB model for about $500, and ...

Cyber Monday Update: We mentioned quite a few Cyber Monday deals last week, like AT&T's basically free-on-contract HTC One X (sadly, not plus) or Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. Beyond that GS2, Samsung's got a few additional offers mentioned on its Facebook page, including savings on a second Samsung device when you buy one through AT&T, and don't forget that those Samsung T-Mobile deals we talked about are still good, including a $100 16GB Galaxy S III. Thanksgiving is now upon us, for those of you living in the US, at least, while for today that means turkey, uncomfortable ...

In a recent interview with Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer took the opportunity to talk about the competition: Google, the Android-powered devices as well as the ecosystem, and Apple. According to the CEO, Android's ecosystem is “wild,” “uncontrolled” and susceptible to malware. Well, to be honest, Android does indeed have malware issues, but 72% of the market seems to disagree with the CEO of the company struggling for 3% smartphone market share. As far as Apple is concerned, the Cupertino ecosystem is “high-priced” according to ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through the Nokia Lumia 920T for the Chinese market. Then we talk about Microsoft's software upgrades coming to Windows 8 and Windows RT next Tuesday. We later go through some issues that Surface customers are having with the Touch Cover just days after their purchase. Then we talk about some of the recent batch of iPhone 5 complaints to show they're real. We end today's show talking about our hands-on video review of the Nokia Lumia 920 on AT&T and Nokia Lumia 810 on T-Mobile. All this and more after the break.

It wouldn't be much of a high-profile smartphone or tablet launch if we didn't start hearing reports of all sorts of little weird, unexpected glitches cropping up over the following weeks. Apple knows that story all too well, but this time around it's Microsoft in the hot seat, upon a number of Surface owners reporting that their tablets have been unexpectedly muting themselves. These apparently random muting events seem tied to the use of a keyboard cover, and both the Touch and Type covers could be similarly affected. For whatever reason, sometimes the keyboards are misreporting a press ...