It’s a usual pattern that the rumors and mentions of any upcoming device start popping up, around the span of a year when it’s about to launch. Microsoft’s so-called “Surface Phone” has been in rumors for years now, and past 3 months, its mention is showing up now, and then. Yesterday, it was again mentioned by Microsoft Asia Research Institute’s Cortana Support when replying to a query in Zhihu Forum.
This was first spotted by ITHome, and it was quoted:
First of all, Siri and Bixby, two intelligent assistants installed in the smartphones, and Cortana is a third-party application, permissions support may be embarrassing. Windows Phone users may know that Cortana in Windows Phone was better than the Cortana app, Windows Phone Cortana was a lot easier to use.
Microsoft Cortana (Xiao Na) is a cross-platform smart assistant, available across all devices including PCs and smartphone, trying to do more like WeChat Noda.
For the smart assistant, permissions is a good thing, looking forward to the perfect performance of the Surface Phone (although Hana does not know will not be a surface phone). Of course, as a smart assistant, the pace of development is still relatively slow, but Cortana team will be working hard to make the assistant better. Last year in 3rd-anniversary celebration, Cortana saw all new features and support, three years is not a long time, but the move on this road Hana never forget, Microsoft Cortana team must live up to expectations.
Past few weeks, we had been reporting about Patents which points that Microsoft seems to be working on a foldable device, code-named “Andromeda”, and it could be the new form factor that Microsoft is planning to introduce in the market. It’s going to be the first major change after entry of Mobile devices.
We expect Microsoft to show up this rumored device by end of this year.
Source: Microsoft China via Windows Latest
