INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
For a long, long time now we're been hearing rumors that Microsoft is working on a Surface Phone or mini-tablet, with the device apparently
folding in half when needed
New reports suggest the hardware and the software for the compact Surface are now being reworked, with no launch expected until 2019.That's
according to sources speaking to Thurrott, sources who say Microsoft isn't happy with the quality of what they've managed to put together so
It's not a case of going right back to the drawing board, but Microsoft is apparently taking a few steps back.The good news is, as per the
that will come as a relief to the thousands of people who signed a petition asking Microsoft to please, please release a Surface Phone in
the near future.What we think we know so farBased on everything we've heard so far, it sounds like the new Surface device will use
Microsoft itself seems to be referring to it as a "pocketable" device in a new hardware category of its own.The device is going to run the
kind of hardware it's running on
This too is unofficial, and is likely to turn up in 2019.Given what happened with Microsoft's last mobile venture it's perhaps not
surprising that it wants to get everything perfectly right this time around, hence the extra delay in the phone-tablet-laptop hybrid
wait and see.Via The Next Web
