{"id":74762,"date":"2017-12-30T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/a-360-degree-rotation-hinge-design-teases-hopes-for-microsoft-phone-win-in-2018"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:06:43","slug":"a-360-degree-rotation-hinge-design-teases-hopes-for-microsoft-phone-win-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/a-360-degree-rotation-hinge-design-teases-hopes-for-microsoft-phone-win-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"A 360-degree rotation hinge design teases hopes for Microsoft phone win in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-360-degree-rotation-hinge-design-teases-hopes-for-microsoft-phone-win-in-20182.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember when Microsoft was actually aspiring to be mobile phone players? It seems like yesterday\u2014but actually it was not so long ago. With the rise of the iPhone and flashy Android launches, the world got used to unsightly stats showing the Windows Phone dip.<\/p>\n<p>While its drop of market share became evident, there is keen interest in whether or not Microsoft has ambitions as a comeback kid, not with a Windows Phone but with something now being rumored by watchers as a \u201cSurface Phone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That probably explains why the \u201cHinge with free-stop function\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/patent\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patent<\/a> filed this year has drawn a lot of interest among tech watchers when it surfaced on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017-12-degree-rotation-hinge-microsoft.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017&#45;12-degree-rotation-hinge-microsoft.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Microsoft was actually aspiring to be mobile phone players? It seems like yesterday\u2014but actually it was not so long ago. With the rise of the iPhone and flashy Android launches, the world got used to unsightly stats showing the Windows Phone dip. While its drop of market share became evident, there is keen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74850,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74762\/revisions\/74850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}