Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Book refreshes are on the way, but the Pro 5 and Book 2 might be delayed

October is shaping up to be an interesting month for us. The iPhones will launch in India on the seventh, as will the AirPods , Google is possibly gearing up for a Pixel event and Microsoft also intends to show something off around that time.

That ‘something’ was initially expected to be a Surface Pro 5, Book 2 and the much-awaited Surface Phone, but now it seems like those will remain rumours for the time being.

Reports on Neowin and iTechPost suggest that we’ll only be seeing a Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book refresh and maybe a glimpse of the Pro 5 and Book 2. The reports also suggest that Intel’s Kaby Lake is to blame for the delay.

Intel’s seventh generation Kaby Lake mobile processors are already out and available to OEMs, but only the low-power Y and U series are out. The more powerful, quad-core HQ series will not make an appearance until next year.

We’re also expecting to see Microsoft’s latest attempt at an all-in-one type device in the form of the Surface PC. iTechPost goes so far as to suggest that the tagline for the Surface PC will be “turns your PC into a desk.”

I’m not entirely sure what a refresh would involve. The low-powered Kaby-Lakes are out, so there might be some entry-level SKUs with those chips. One can also expect the Surface Book to incorporate the latest Nvidia GPUs as well.

The Surface Phone is what has me most excited, but in a more academic sense. What rumours I’ve heard suggest a phone with a 21MP Carl Zeiss lens, triple LED flash and USB Type-C port. Continuum and Windows 10 are a given, which is why my interest is only academic.

Windows Phone/Mobile/10 is as good as dead at this time and while I don’t doubt Microsoft’s ability to make great hardware, I’m curious to see what they’ll do with the software.