Well, I just meant every phone has GPS--so it should be easy to include. I actually like the GPS in my iPad because it automatically does things like find the theaters close to me without needing input. Personally, my phone doesn't have a good GPS on it, so it's more important to me in a tablet. But again, as I'm shifting my thinking about how I'll use the Surface, I'm seeing how it'll replace my laptop more than my iPad...and by the time the Surface 3 comes out with LTE and a GPS, I can get rid of everything for that if I like it enough.
Believe me when I say I'm ready to leave the "closed" Apple ecosystem behind. I appreciate that everything just "works" in that ecosystem (for the most part), but there's so much more I want to be able to do--like use a full version of Word--that I think the Surface will excel at (no pun intended).
Yeah, the Surface isn't a phone.
Now that MS bought Nokia, I'm sure that tech will be added later on, but it's possible it won't be in a full-sized Surface device but a smaller one if/when MS rolls together the Win Phone and WinRT systems. It would make more sense in a "mini" phablet form factor.
I can shift with that...but can you install extensions, such as LastPass?
Extensions cannot be installed with IE11 (that's right, I forgot--no Java, no extensions), however you will want to enable the Tracking Protection Lists to block ads.
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