[Rumor] Surface Phone may bring a laptop processor

rumors about a smartphone of the line Surface have become more intense in recent months. Nothing was said about him in the recent presentation by Microsoft, where the Surface Studio and the new generation of Surface Book were announced, but reports and websites comment that the company could finally launch a smartphone with the same Windows 10 of the Desktops. In fact, many people think that the Windows Phone its days are already numbered. Will it be?

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In theory, the Surface Phone would assume the role that the line Nexus (now replaced by the line pixel) has for the Android. But, according to the TweakTown, Surface Phone it will be a corporate smartphone, not focused on the average consumer. That with a “detail”: it will use a laptop processor, not a smartphone SoC.

Implications

If this is confirmed, we can make some predictions. the first is that Surface Phone will be the most powerful smartphone on the market. If we had to guess, we would say that the processor used would be a model from the line Core M. These do not require active cooling (with cooler), consume less power than the line Core i and bring PDTs minors. Despite this, it consumes more energy than the smartphone SoCs, which would require a larger battery.

Another implication is the system. Apparently, the Microsoft intend to use the full version of windows 10 No. Surface Phone, with support for all the programs we use on the PC. This makes us believe that he will come with a However,, transforming it into a complete computer. After all, it has a processor for that, so it's natural to expect something like that. () All these features would come with a price, of course, but if the focus is truly corporate, they start to make sense.

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