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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a Surface Phone?

Windows Mobile fans are getting somewhat desperate for evidence Microsoft has not completely abandoned the platform,  after years with no hardware releases and middling OS updates, with the last hope as always being the ever mythical Surface Phone. Numerous patents have suggested we are looking at a dual-screened rather than conventional slate device, and Satya Nadella’s statements that Microsoft will not release device which does not offer something unique has fuelled the fires that Microsoft is actually working on such a game-changing device. There is, however, no real evidence that such a device exists, and the news that even Bill Gates is using an Android phone and Satya Nadella’s statements that there is no need for a 3rd smartphone ecosystem has made even staunch fans of Windows Phone reconsider their commitment. It is in this context that we have an article by All About Windows Phone, asking if the head of the Insider program, Dona Sarkar, above, has been sna...