Is This the Microsoft Surface Smartphone? Discussion

[Ed Hardy]

Microsoft employees may have given the world a first look at the smartphone their company is developing. Pictures of this device have appeared on Microsoft's own website.

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[Mitlov]

Top picture appears to have a thicker column on the right side that almost looks like a silo for a digitizer stylus. Bottom does not. I wonder if these are just multiple prototypes as opposed to one final design they've settled on.

Regardless, I'm glad to see forward progress on the Surface Phone. I'm a little ticked off at each of the three WP8 OEMs, each for different reasons.

[Ed Hardy]

I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out if these were different devices, or if they just looked different because they were are very different angles. In the end, I decided I couldn't tell. Still, there's the possibility that the lower model is much wider than the top one, with a squarer display.

I like the theory that these are prototypes Microsoft is considering..

[Varjak]

I tried to figure that out too Ed. I lean towards it being just a 'trick' of perspective, since one photo is taken at an odd, oblique angle.