In 2018, Microsoft canceled plans to ship a new Windows-based OS designed from the ground up for a new dual-screen phone form factor, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/surface/microsoft-surface-andromeda-prototype-leaked-images-running-windows-phone-core-os” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/surface/microsoft-surface-andromeda-prototype-leaked-images-running-windows-phone-core-os”>codenamed Andromeda. This special version of Windows would have been a continuation of Windows Phone, but it unfortunately never saw the light of day.
The phone itself ended up shipping as data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/surface-duo” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/surface-duo”>Surface Duo, but when it launched it was running Android instead of Windows. To this day, we’ve never really had a chance experience this mythical dual-screen version of Windows Phone…
