Microsoft Knows How to Use a Phone Display as Speaker (But It Won’t)

Microsoft has already abandoned phones in terms of both hardware and software, but before this, the company was considering several approaches to become one of the top players in mobile.

And patents making the rounds these days show that Microsoft thought of new phone features a long time ago, even though just a few of them entered mass production.

Such an example is a speaker that’s directly integrated into the display of a phone, thus helping save space inside the device and, at the same time, allow for other major improvements, like edge-to-edge screens and sound aimed directly at the user.

The patent called “DISPLAY STRUCTURE HAVING A VISUAL DISPLAY AND AN AUDIO OUTPUT” was recently discovered by