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Windows-powered premium phone with AR and VR

Microsoft mobile alert: Windows-powered premium phone with AR and VR capabilities under test in company campus

Redmond-based Microsoft is testing a premium Windows 10 OS-powered mobile with AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) features at its office campus.

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Earlier this year, American technology giant Microsoft reportedly commenced working on a mysterious Windows-powered mobile phone. Now, it has come to light that the company has already created a working prototype.

Sam Brad, executive editor of reliable Microsoft community blog Thurrott.com (via YouTube) has claimed that the Redmond-based firm has developed a Windows 10 OS-powered high-end mobile-like device and it has already made its way to the office campus for further testing.

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So far, there is no word on specifications of the device, but it is said to support Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) features.

Interestingly, the rumoured Microsoft device is unlikely to be called Surface phone series, as previously reported in the media. Brad has reported that the mystery mobile is developed under the company's veteran leader, Alex Kipman, who also happens to be chief of HoloLens project, in the gaming division.

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An experienced person like Kipman is a perfect pick by Microsoft, as it will be making comeback after a long hiatus. Since it wrote-off Nokia's mobile assets for $7.6 billion in mid-2015, many had given up on Microsoft. Now, going by the report, its looks like Microsoft is developing a new class of mobile device, which we believe will disrupt the smartphone industry for good.

Lately, all new marquee phones have more or less the same features, mostly incremental in terms of internal hardware over the predecessors. There are hardly any new innovative features to get excited about.

Word on the street is that Microsoft's gaming changing mobile phone will break covers in 2018.

Watch this space for latest news on Microsoft products.

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RED is making a $1,200 smartphone with a ‘holographic display’

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by Sean O'Kane@sokane1  Jul 6, 2017, 12:33pm EDT

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High-end camera maker RED has just announced a premium smartphone called Hydrogen One, and the headlining feature is something the company is referring to as a “holographic display.” A buzzword-filled press release for Hydrogen One says that the 5.7-inch display somehow uses nanotechnology to “seamlessly [switch] between traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content, and interactive games.”

It all sounds like some sort of mix between the gimmicky visual trickery Amazon offered with the Fire Phone and the glasses-less 3D displays like the ones found on the Nintendo 3DS. But in a forum post written shortly after the announcement, RED founder Jim Jannard says “there is no good way to describe it until you see it.” He also writes that “our display is technology you haven’t seen before. It is not lenticular, which is inferior tech in every way, has been tried many times before and failed for good reason. (see Amazon 3D Fire, LG Optimus, etc).”

RED says that it will also use an algorithm to convert stereo sound into “multi-dimensional audio” to add to the immersive experience — or, as RED puts it, to “ASSAULT YOUR SENSES.” The phone will allow for modular attachments, similar to those found on the Moto Z line or the Essential Phone, but with a special focus on image capture. And the phone will work (somehow) with RED’s extensive lineup of digital cinema cameras.

MODULAR ATTACHMENTS AND A DISPLAY THAT CAN SWITCH BETWEEN 2D AND 3D

The company says the phone will ship in early 2018, and it’s currently available for preorder on RED’s website. It starts at $1,195 for the aluminum version, and there’s also a $1,595 variant made out of titanium.

All of this is subject to change, though. The company writes that the design of the phone may change, but more importantly, “after this initial release we will NOT be able to fill all orders on time due to display production limitations. We will NOT guarantee these prices at the time of release.” The modular attachments won’t be available at launch, either.

Otherwise, Hydrogen One sounds like any other relatively beefed-up Android phone, though we don’t know exact specs. If you tweak the brightness of the photo, you can see a very grippy design, and a relatively small camera bump. It will use USB Type-C, it has a microSD slot for expandable storage, and yes — it has a headphone jack.

Update July 6th, 5:45PM ET: RED founder Jim Jannard posted more information about the Hydrogen One on a RED users forum. This information has been added to the story.

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