14 DAY TRIAL // With Microsoft remaining quite tight-lipped on the future of Windows phones, everyone hopes the rumored Surface Phone to be real, as a new flagship model could breathe life into the platform and provide us with a reason to continue using Windows 10 Mobile.
And because Microsoft doesn’t say a thing about the Surface Phone, it’s up to our imagination to envision what the phone could look like and this is exactly what designer Bartlomiej Tarnowski from Poland tries to do in a new concept.
The Surface Phone concept that you see here imagines a super productive Windows 10 Mobile device that has almost no side bezels and comes with support for a Type Cover and a Surface Pen.
Available for the Surface lineup of tablets, the Type Cover provides instant conversion to a laptop and the same thing could be made possible in the case of the Surface Phone as well. Obviously, the reduced size of the screen could limit Microsoft’s efforts to achieve this goal, but having a Type Cover on a Surface Phone looks good in this concept.
A Surface Pen for the Surface Phone
The Surface Pen also makes drawing and writing easy as pie on the screen, and given the fact that there are already smartphones out there that come with a stylus, it could make sense for Microsoft to head into the same direction. The only problem in this concept, however, is that the phone doesn’t seem to offer an easy way to carry the pen around, as is the case with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, for instance.
What we don’t like are the side buttons for volume control, lock and camera. When viewed from the side, the Surface Phone looks odd, to say the least, and clearly this design isn’t quite the best way to go.
But without a doubt, this Surface Phone concept is worth a look, especially considering that Microsoft itself hasn't said a single thing about this project and all we can do right now is wait.
