Microsoft has unveiled a new design for a possible flip smartphone, and has even patented it in a paper that was published ...

Unfortunately, the teardown doesn’t go into much detail on how the impressive hinge of the Surface Book works. We would like to see more detail on how Microsoft engineered this into the small ...

Industrial design is the star of the Surface Laptop Studio. Microsoft is the king of the hinge, the master of magnesium, and all the years of experimentation and R&D show in this machine. If someone ...

It didn’t show the same Surface Book hinge that Microsoft introduced on the first model. Instead, the image hints at a significant design change coming in this year’s Surface Book 2.

in its ultra-slim EliteBook Folio G1 notebook, and Microsoft, in its powerful Surface Book 2-in-1 laptop ... which has a 180-degree hinge so the device can open completely flat.

That doesn't mean Microsoft can't reuse its hinge patents in other product form factors in the future, but the likelihood of a Surface folding phone being released anytime soon is incredibly slim.