Apparently, the mobile business, acquired from Nokia in 2013, did not live up to Microsoft hopes. Last quarter, Microsoft managed to sell only 1.2 million Lumia smartphones, which is two times less than in the previous quarter. And in the near time Microsoft plans at all to bury the Lumia range.
According to the sources, to the end of 2016 Microsoft will kill family of Lumia smartphones. In December, Microsoft plans to stop production and to stop the sale of Lumia smartphones. And to replace the Lumia series comes a new line of smartphones under the brand Surface. However, the new series will include far fewer smartphones. Sources claim that the first smartphone with flagship Surface characteristics will be presented at the end of this year.
Interestingly, a few days ago there was some other information on the web. It was argued that the first smartphone Surface Phone in the best case will be presented in the autumn of 2017 , and in the worst case, Microsoft will transfer the announcement to 2018.