Microsoft reportedly working on much rumored Surface phoneDecember 2, 2015 - 12:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Microsoft’s Surface team is working on a new premium smartphone, which will be ready in the second half of 2016. And it might be the pure Surface phone many have hoped for, VentureBeat reports. So says a new report from Windows Central, citing unnamed sources. The sources say that the Surface group has dropped plans for an Intel-powered Windows 10 phone in favor of the new device. The new flagship phone, the report says, will be built by a Microsoft engineering team led by Panos Panay — the same team that built the Surface and Surface Book. The group has been given responsibility for Microsoft’s “premium” devices. The report does not make clear whether the new device will indeed be the long-rumored “Surface phone,” however. “The most obvious question is whether this will be the shoot-to-the-moon Surface phone that has been alleged ever since the first Surface tablet was announced years ago,” Windows Central’s Daniel Rubino wrote. “Unfortunately, details of what exactly this device is remain unknown.” Rubino wrote that the Intel-powered phone that was cancelled appears to have been another in the Lumia line. Some people inside Microsoft are said to be unhappy with the company’s last round of Lumias — the Lumia 950 and 950 XL — which were released in early October. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |