![]() ![]() ![]() Qualcomm's SoCs already power the vast majority of smartphone and mobile devices on the market. The handset would run on ARM chips, not Intel processors, meaning that Qualcomm's Snapdragon systems-on-a-chip (SoC) would be the likeliest candidates for one of Andromeda's main components. Microsoft's "Courier" tablet, which also supported two screens, support for touch and pen, and a foldable design. ![]() There is also a special, dedicated notebook app apparently in the works, which would tie in with OneNote and become one of the main features of Andromeda. ![]() The highlight of the device, other than its mutable form, is tipped to be pen and ink support: It would make sense, as Microsoft already offers a platform with Windows Ink and has experience in building styluses for Windows 10 with the various iterations of its Surface Pen. Windows Central specifies that Microsoft would probably not bill Andromeda as a straight phone replacement (avoiding competition with Android and the iPhone), but build it with phone capabilities so that it can, technically, work as a phone. Microsoft's Surface devices have almost always been marketed as machines capable of doing more than one thing, trying to break conventional form factors like "laptop" or "tablet" as fixated types of device (like the original Surface Pro, which was billed as a "tablet that can replace your laptop").Īndromeda, too, would be a new, category-defining 2-in-1 device: A tablet that can also be a phone. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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