This could be our clearest look yet at Microsoft's ultramobile, Courier like Surface device
0This could be our clearest look yet at Microsoft's ultramobile, Courier-like Surface device (MSFT).
A new patent filed by Microsoft earlier this week may be giving us our best look yet at the company's long-rumoured ultramobile device, the often-dubbed "Surface Phone."
The patent, first reported by The Verge, shows what the Surface team's engineers call a "hinged device" — hinges have been watermark hardware features of all past Surfaces, so it would be fitting for a new product to sport one (the Surface Pro, Studio, and Book would essentially be impossible to create without their hinge mechanisms).
The device looks a lot like a digital book, with two halves that pivot around a central hinge and that can be opened flat to create a somewhat uniform, all-screen surface.