WSJ: Microsoft Building, Testing Its Own Smartphone

Microsoft’s caginess throughout the latter part of 2012 about the prospect of it building a smartphone seems to have finally come crashing down: The Wall Street Journal late Thursday evening reported that the Redmond, Washington-headquartered computer giant is testing a smartphone design with equipment suppliers in “Asia,” but that the company still hadn’t committed to mass producing it for the public. The news comes on the release of Microsoft’s own branded tablet, the Surface.