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these are the top five most interesting Microsoft Hardware rumors floating around say what you will about Microsoft but that company has been making some pretty interesting hardware in the past few years take a look at that surface studio as an example recently a bunch of reports popped up online that claimed to know what Microsoft is cooking up let's get to it at number five our new surface branded accessories Microsoft already makes a bunch of accessories that bear the surface label like keyboards and a mouse these surface branded devices definitely show off Microsoft's at design chops according to Mary Joe Foley the company may be working on a headphone mic combo similar to the Jabra evolve she looked pretty slick if it's a surface number for new surface devices according to Mary Joe Foley again the next surface pro is going to be heavily redesigned and it won't show up until mid 2019 this year we'll get a new line of surface devices they will have smaller screens and be priced lower bloomberg says Microsoft is aiming to get the price to around $400 coming in at number three is the next Xbox is coming pretty soon over at throught com Brad Sam says Microsoft is planning to release the next Xbox codenamed Scarlett in the year 2020 what's more is that Scarlett is actually a family of devices so expect multiple pieces of hardware what's not known is whether Scarlett is a revision to the current Xbox or a brand new console we've arrived at number two and it is the new hololens the next version is expected in the first quarter of next year the new hololens is supposed to be lighter feature improved graphics a better field of view better battery life and a much lower price point i've tried on the hololens and it's pretty great here's hoping and heads to the consumer space soon or headset consumers heads and at number one is Andromeda apparently Microsoft is working on a pocketable dual screen mobile device codenamed Andromeda sort of like intel's tiger rapid prototype but smaller microsoft does hold a number of patents related to fold and mobile devices this report also comes from Brad Sam's and he says that Microsoft will introduce the Andromeda device first then partners will release similar devices after oh one more thing Andromeda is targeted for a 2018 release just remember that plans can change remember the courier or the service mini they never made it to market go check out all about Microsoft calm and Thora calm if you want to get super geeky about Microsoft for more top fives head on over to top 5 dot cnet.com Amaya's Akhtar and I'll see you online