Surface Phone Concept Map

Microsoft's Surface series has long been synonymous with the two in one notebook. Under the name of the famous Surface, there have been many projects like the Surface mini that have been abandoned halfway. Among them, the most attractive mysterious series is the Surface Phone. As early as a few years ago, there was a rumor that Microsoft would launch its own mobile phone. Although the legend of Surface Phone appeared irregularly during this period, no real phone has been seen so far.

In the Win10 autumn creator update a year ago, Microsoft also removed all phones related to mobile phone calls, basically sentenced the Surface Phone to death. The laptop equipped with Snapdragon 835 and the Always Connected PC products equipped with baseband, such as LTE Surface Pro, can access 4G Internet, but have "castrated" the call function.

However, it was reported on April 23 that Microsoft added the phone related Phone API again in the Windows 10 RS5 preview 17650. These APIs are used to enable win10 to dial, hang up, video call and other normal phone operations.

Even though this function has nothing to do with the Surface Phone in the end, the Always Connected PC products such as the Win10 laptop of the Snapdragon 835 and the LTE version of the Surface Pro are likely to have the opportunity to make phone calls, but most likely require additional cracking means.

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