Andromeda Rumors: Supposed Surface Phone Replacement to Boast of Holographic Display
Amidst the reports claiming that Microsoft has already canceled its supposed Surface Phone, the latest rumors say that the Redmond-based company's replacement for its mystical mobile device, the Andromeda, will come with a holographic display.
Following Microsoft's confirmation that it is killing its Windows Phone, many believed that the company's long-rumored mystical phone, the Surface Phone, has been canceled as well. While Microsoft never really confirmed that the Surface Phone was in its pipeline, recent rumors suggest that the tech giant replaced it with its new mobile device, the Andromeda.
While it is suggested that the Andromeda will still carry some features originally intended for the Surface Phone, especially its ability to fold and expand into a tablet, sources claim that it may be the first mobile device to come with a holographic display. Reportedly, Microsoft has already patented the technology, which will enable the device to display a floating image from one of the device's two displays.
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Sources claim that Alex Kipman, who works on Microsoft's Mixed Reality platform, also takes the helm in the development of the unique display for Andromeda, which supposedly uses micro-lenses to project the image above the surface of device's display.
While some suspect that the Andromeda and the Surface Phone are one and the same, it is said that it is not the case as, after all, the former is supposedly a pocket-PC that can function as a phone at the same time. Others believe that the device is more in sync with Satya Nadella's statement last year, wherein he said in an interview that, while Microsoft is not done with the mobile phone market yet, the next mobile device that the company will release will not look like the smartphones of today.
"We will continue to be in the phone market not as defined by today's market leaders, but by what it is that we can uniquely do in what is the most ultimate mobile device," Nadella told the Australian Financial Review in November last year.
