Microsoft Surface Phone Powered By Enhanced Cortana, Engineer Inadvertently Says

It looks like there's another reason to believe that Microsoft has been secretly working on the long-rumored Surface Phone. An engineer for the company who is based in China apparently slipped recently and dropped a hint at the highly anticipated device. Over the weekend, a Microsoft engineer took the time to respond to a complaint raised on a Chinese Q&A site called Zhihu about the poor integration of the Cortana digital assistant on Android. The engineer used the Microsoft Asia Research Institute's Cortana support account to reply to the complaint and initially made a mistake of mentioning the better implementation of Cortana on the Surface Phone. In the engineer's statement, he said that the problem with the integration of Cortana on Android was the lack of permissions on the operating system.