Microsoft Almost Made This Surface Phone, Then Killed It

Microsoft almost made this Surface Phone, then killed it

Long before the Surface Duo, Microsoft may have been building a very different Surface Phone, and a newly surfaced prototype gives us a fascinating glimpse at what could have been.

Microsoft almost made a Surface phone we actually wanted

TL;DR Microsoft reportedly had plans for a Surface-branded Windows Phone years before the Surface Duo, with a 2013-2014 prototype recently revealed. The mysterious phone featured a 720p display, physical navigation buttons, a silver Surface-like chassis, and Windows Phone 8.1. The Nokia acquisition may have killed the project, while Microsoft’s eventual Surface Duo took a very different dual-screen approach that came with plenty of compromises.…

Is this Microsoft’s canceled Surface Phone from 2014? Mysterious Windows Phone prototype appears in new photos

Before Microsoft acquired Nokia, the company was heavily rumoured to be working on its own in-house Windows Phone device that was expected to ship in 2014 under the Surface moniker alongside its Surface Pro device. Unfortunately for Windows Phone fans, such a device never saw the light of day, but newly published images of a mysterious prototype might have just given us our first and only look at what Microsoft was exploring internally.Possibly …