There was supposed to be a 7.5-inch Surface Mini tablet coming out back in 2014 but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop scrapped the idea weeks before it was supposed to launch alongside the Surface Pro 3 that May. But even with the tablet being scrapped, Evan Blass showed us what the Surface Mini could’ve looked like if Microsoft decided to launch it. The image shows the tablet wrapped in a red rubber case with a kick stand.
Specs-wise, the Surface Mini was supposed to have a 7.5-inch screen with a 1,440 x 1,080 display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 32GB internal storage, and 1GB of RAM. It was supposed to come in black, red, and blue models. It was designed to run Windows RT and support the Surface Pen. It was being marketed as a notebook replacement of sorts. But as The Verge points out, it might have been best Microsoft cancelled the production of the tablet as they didn’t have much success with Windows RT tablets.