Thursday, November 19, 2015

Microsoft: the Surface Phone is it on track? – 01net

For several years now we evoke a potential area Phone. A rumor which returns once again on the mat with the appearance of a result Benchmark spotted by the German site Winfuture.de. On HTML5TEST.com-a site where you can test browser compatibility with new standards Web- we can indeed discover the HTML5 Edge actually score a mysterious device called Surface Phone, running Windows 10.

This page, however, presents some rather bizarre information: it rotates with mobile versions of Windows 10 (10240) and Edge (12) exceeded long ago. In addition, the definition of the screen displayed on the site is not credible, since it only achieved 360 x 640 pixel …

The Surface Phone is there a real PC?

However, it seems logical that Microsoft is working on such a project: the firm a few weeks ago unveiled the impressive Surface Book to complete its range area, now full of a tablet and a PC mobile. Do not miss more than a mobile to complete the lot … Even if a question arises: how to position the face of this new smartphone Lumia

The answer may have been given discreetly to occasion of the Microsoft Connect conference, held currently in New York. Kevin Gallo, vice president at Microsoft in charge of Windows Developer Platform , has indeed indicated that his company was considering making applications “traditional” Win32 compatible with Continuum function, which allows the use smartphone as a PC when connected to a screen. For the moment, in fact, only the universal applications, those that are downloaded from the Windows Store are compatible with Continuum.

In any case, there is no time for Lumia able to run Win32 applications, since they are all based on ARM architecture processors, not Intel x86, that of PCs, which are compiled for Win32 programs.

From there to think that Microsoft is working on a Surface Phone Intel, which is suddenly a real hybrid smartphone / PC, there is only one step …

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