What do the manufacturers of mobile devices that are not in the top three the most successful? For example, to move to the budget segment, sacrificing profit, but increasing market share or dramatically reduce the range of mobile phones, leaving only the top models. The first path has not brought success for Microsoft – the Lumia range has not helped the company win back share from iOS and Android, so it remained the second path.
In the Network appeared rumors about the development of a premium smartphone Microsoft Surface. Despite the fairly large number of details about the hardware and software design, estimates of the timing of the announcement and beginning of sales of this smartphone so far, speak very vaguely.
Informed sources claim that the device will be officially presented before the end of 2016. In addition to a possible announcement in conjunction with the September IFA exhibition in Berlin, also there are assumptions about a special event in October, under which Microsoft may also provide other series products Surface, including Surface Pro Surface 5 and Book 2. For all of these innovations are truly important is the season of Christmas sales.
According to preliminary data, the Microsoft Surface will be made in a classic design in the case of a combination of aluminium and magnesium alloys. The device will have a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels and will support your entry with your Surface Pen.
As the processor is likely to use Intel Atom x3 with 4 GB of RAM, although it is also possible variant of the production model with 6 GB of RAM on Board. Expected version of the smartphone with 64 GB and 128 GB built-in storage, although a number of rumors mentions versions in 256 GB and even 500 GB. There will be a 21-megapixel camera PureView, 8 megapixel front-facing sensor with Zeiss optics. The operating system will make Windows 10.
Sources indicate that Microsoft Surface will cost more than the iPhone. The device in the minimum configuration will cost $1000.
According to one version, the smartphone will support desktop applications. This feature can be useful in the Continuum mode when the device is connected to the monitor. But is that enough to win over Apple fans or at least get them to think “before purchasing the seventeenth iPhone”? Much will also depend on the success (or failure) of projects related to porting applications to Windows 10 Mobile, while the mobile platform from Microsoft continues to lose market share.
