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With Microsoft's plans for a mobile version of Windows running on ARM chips relegated to Windows 10 tablets no-one wants, Redmond has decided to put its muscle behind Android – again.

Windows fans have launched a petition asking Microsoft to come up with a mobile Surface device after leaks indicated that one was in the works. Six thousand fans have already signed up to indicate that they would buy one.

Microsoft appears to be working on a Surface Phone, if a post to a Chinese forum by an engineer working for the Microsoft Asia Research Institute is any indication.

Microsoft announced late last week that it’s holding a special Surface event in Shanghai, promising to “show the world what’s next.”

Rumoured for years, Microsoft might finally release a Surface Phone able to run x86 Windows desktop apps, with or without Continuum, on either Intel or ARM processors.

Rumours of a new Microsoft Surface, Windows 10 Mobile phone have hotted up with Nokia Power User (NPU) revealing leaks from what it calls a “trusted source.”

One side says there will be no new Surface Pro mobile devices announced and no new Surface Phone on 26 October, but the other side says there will be.

ANALYSIS Microsoft has issued invitations to a launch in New York. Inevitably this sets the gossip mongers “mongering”. Here is what iTWire has found.

Rumours about the Microsoft Surface Phone have been flowing thick and fast – but there is a wild card here and it is called Intel.

Microsoft will unveil its newest Lumia Windows 10 phones, Surface Pro 4, Band 2 and more on 6 October 2015, which is 1am 7 October AEDT in Australia.