Microsoft has had a few goes at pulling attention away from Apple, Google, and Samsung with phones and other mobile devices in the past. Unfortunately, whether it’s through the acquisition of Nokia, the creation of Windows Phone, or the release of devices like the Microsoft Surface Duo, it has never quite succeeded. Project Solara isn’t a smartphone operating system, although Microsoft’s platform is based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but an app-less, AI agent-first platform made for both mobile and stationary devices. It’s also, at this stage at least, not aimed at consumers. Microso
Microsoft's new mobile effort ditches Windows for Android, and it's not a phone… It was also aimed at businesses. In the background of Microsoft’s promotional material for Project Solara, there are outlines of other possible devices, including smartwatches, smart rings, earbuds, and smartglasses. …
… While the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses have dominated headlines ahead of Samsung and Google’s first pairs arriving later this year, the Chinese police use a pair of smartglasses made specially for them. …
… It joins Google with its AI glasses , Samsung’s smartglasses plans , and further products from Meta likely to launch this year.
… The event included Gemini announcements, new AI agents, AI-powered search experiences, multimodal models, and smart glasses, while Android itself often felt secondary to the broader AI story . …
… During that time he has reviewed hundreds of smartphones and tablets, dozens of smartwatches, and a host of smart rings and smartglasses too. …
… If you buy one phone over the other for AI, you're chasing your own tail, as both will have all the features that Google sees fit to release eventually. …