{"id":311113,"date":"2019-06-24T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=311113"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:12:36","slug":"microsoft-working-on-foldable-surface-running-android-apps-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/311113-microsoft-working-on-foldable-surface-running-android-apps-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft working on foldable Surface running Android apps &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft plans to launch a foldable Surface laptop-tablet hybrid in the first half of 2020, IHS Markit consumer electronics associate director Jeff Lin told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brookecrothers\/2019\/06\/23\/microsoft-plans-foldable-dual-screen-surface-will-run-android-apps-says-ihs-markit\/#3d83eb8cf0b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Forbes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming device will reportedly sport a pair of 9-inch screens, both of which will have a 4:3 aspect ratio.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the foldable Microsoft Surface will run Windows Core OS and could also support Android applications to extend the selection of apps optimised for dual-display devices.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also planning to include Intel&#8217;s 10nm Lakefield system-on-chip in the device, which is expected to support LTE or 5G connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/308563-microsoft-teases-dual-screen-surface-tablet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>teased<\/strong><\/a> its upcoming dual-screen foldable surface earlier this month, allowing employees to try out a prototype version of the hardware.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/310391-it-aint-pretty-but-it-works.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">It ain\u2019t pretty, but it works<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft plans to launch a foldable Surface device in the first half of 2020, according to IHS Markit consumer electronics associate director Jeff Lin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":141044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40456,123,12641],"class_list":["post-311113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware","tag-microsoft","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}