Next week’s “Surface Event” on October 2nd in New York City is shaping up to be a doozy. This isn’t going to be just a refresh of old Surface hardware, and Microsoft is widely expected to show off some innovative new hardware and experiences, up to and possibly including “Centaurus,” a foldable tablet-like addition to the Surface line. We’ll be there, of course, to bring you all the latest (the event starts at 7am PDT Wednesday October 2nd (edit: sry messed up the time and date, it’s 7am PDT Wednesday, Oct 2!), stay tuned for the best ways to watch as we get closer to the big day.
Yesterday, Microsoft posted a couple of quick videos on Twitter to promo the event, and while there’s nothing definitive, they look to contain some cryptic evidence of what’s to come. The first offers up “the sounds of upcoming innovations:
These are the sounds of the upcoming innovations launching Oct.2 live on Twitter at 10am ET. Remember, you heard it here first. #MicrosoftEvent pic.twitter.com/NUt8cDHPwR
— Microsoft Surface (@surface) September 25, 2019
… and the second “reveals” what could be a side view of a foldable device:
Just one more week until we get to share what we’ve been working on for you. #MicrosoftEvent Oct.2 10am ET live on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/3h81WEyQ7C
— Microsoft Surface (@surface) September 25, 2019
We’ll probably look back on the “sounds” and say “oooh, now I get it,” but for now, at least, they remain relatively cryptic. What do you think they signal?
In addition to the official channels, our favorite leaker guy WalkingCat has been doling out some info on what’s coming, too:
https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/1177076670693380097
We won’t embed every relevent WalkingCat tweet here (if you don’t follow him, you should @h0x0d), but here’s a quick summary of what he’s been dancing around:
- Harper, Avery Island code names for “somewhat boring” products
- Patagonia, Campus are “new and more interesting“
- A reply about “sexy new colors,” listing “Sandstone, Poppy Red, Ice Blue?”
- a mention of a Surface Laptop “without Alcantara“
- “how about a Surface Pro with thinner bezel and LTE”
- “USB-C, USB-C everywhere“
- A new accessory code name, Amore, possibly a type cover
- and another, Katana, “the pen for Campus”
- and one last hint: “Campus is 13 inch and Patagonia is 15 inch”
In an age where every Apple or Google hardware announcement has been leaked and dissected weeks before their respective events, it’s a somewhat refreshing turn of events that we just don’t know (yet) what’s coming next week. That could change in the days ahead leading up to the event, so as always stay tuned to OnMSFT for all the latest news, and especially next Wednesday, when we go hands on with the latest and the greatest from Microsoft.
