> ... as such, it will be late 2017 or sometime next year ... Well, that could be clearer. > Perhaps Surface phone isn’t a phone in the traditional sense. Per

> ... as such, it will be late 2017 or sometime next year ... Well, that could be clearer. > Perhaps Surface phone isn’t a phone in the traditional sense. Perhaps it is, instead, just a new kind of PC with a small—for PCs; I’m hearing 6-inches—screen. This sounds a lot like what others have been doing / try to do for a while now with Android devices (albeit not hugely successfully ... yet). So it's not surprisingly that Microsoft is considering jumping on that bandwagon.