By the end of June, there is a rumor that Microsoft plans to replace the Surface with Lumia brand. Today, heavy industry news reproduced: Microsoft is planning to launch Lumia smart-phones based on Google’s Android operating system, and Lumia has been the company’s flagship product line.
This news comes from Twitter account @ evleaks, a news revealer, but there is no configuration information associated with the device in his tweets. Due to the high credibility of evleaks, we could possibly believe that there should be more exposures appear of this smart-phone in the near future. There is one more detail worth noticing that words “Nokia by Microsoft” were added to the last of the tweet.
The launching of Lumia phones with Android version seems goes back on the original intention – committing to the development of Windows Phone. The public opinion also seems unfavorable to Microsoft and Nokia: This is equivalent to an indirect proof of the long espoused Nokia Windows Phone system is not as good as Android.
However, the benefits can be provided of Android phones is that can improve the current unbearable sales situation, as well as to secure a certain market share. It is reported that market research firm IDC released a market share of the global smart phone operating system in the first quarter, Android’s market share is up to 81%, while Windows Phone is only 3%.
In addition, @evleaks also broke a news on Monday that, Microsoft is reproducing Surface Mini tablet. Earlier rumors has that Microsoft will release Surface Mini in May of this year, but in fact Microsoft released Surface Pro 3 in May. Gratifyingly, the latest news of @evleaks revealed that Microsoft will release Surface Mini tablet in next summer.