A few months back, Microsoft announced the Surface, an ultra-mobile laptop/tablet hybrid running Windows, taking advantage of Windows 8 and Windows RT’s new touch-screen user-interface. Since then, many have been hoping for a Surface smartphone: while no announcements have been made, several artists have created concepts depicting what they expect a Surface Phone to look like.

We’ve heard it multiple times over the past few months and we’re hearing it again today: Microsoft is working on their own smartphone.

The RT edition of the Microsoft Surface is, after a substantial wait, just about to release to market, but instead of marveling over the Redmond company’s first entry into the lucrative field of the tablet, it’s only right we begin focusing on what Microsoft is planning to treat us to in the near future.

For those technology loving fans around the world who may have had their heads buried under a rock in the last week, or been located somewhere that is detached from the world wide web then it may come as a shock to learn that Microsoft recently lifted the covers on a pretty sweet looking tablet, named the Microsoft Surface. Powered by Windows 8, the Surface looks like it will be a serious contender in the tablet space when released but somehow I don’t think Apple are panicking just yet.