Although it seems to many that Microsoft is going to abandon sales of smartphones, the company very unambiguously promises that these devices will remain part of a long-term strategy, but will not be similar to those present on the market. The head of Microsoft, Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella), for example, in a recent interview, said that the company will definitely make more smartphones, but they will fundamentally differ from those to which we are accustomed.

Now Alex Kipman, inventor of the augmented reality reality of Microsoft HoloLens, made the same hint, saying in an interview with Bloomberg that smartphones in the modern form are already dead and are the last century, although most people have not yet realized this. In his opinion, the traditional concept of smartphones has no future.

Apparently, Mr. Kipman means that smartphones will evolve in favor of new formats and device sizes and will go far from the modern concept of the device, built around a small touch screen. Perhaps in the future they will be completely replaced by new devices of mixed reality like HoloLens of the new generation.

It seems that Microsoft is currently actively creating a smartphone that would not be a familiar smartphone - similar to Surface devices, with which the company set the momentum for changes in the PC market. Rumors that the first such phone will be Surface Phone, go for a long time.

One of the principal expected innovations is the possibility of using a smartphone as a desktop PC with a docking station and the concept of Continuum. The previously demonstrated possibility of running normal x86 programs for Windows on ARM chips using emulation can be of great help in this task. Perhaps Microsoft will be able to become a kind of new Blackberry in the business sector, where there really are great prospects for such a concept?.