Microsoft’s ‘Surface phone’ could hit next year (especially if Windows Phone 8 fails) October 3, 2012 9:30 AM Devindra Hardawar Devindra Hardawar LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Google Plus Profile Recent Stories: How cognitive science and user empathy powered Google’s design breakthrough Googlers use Hangouts video chats 20,000 times a day internally Pebble raises $15M, launches SDK update for better smartwatch apps You have to hand it to Microsoft -- the company knows how to persevere.