Now that the Microsoft Surface launch event has come and gone, the focus now is on the Redmond giant's plan for the Microsoft Surface Phone.

Prior to the event, where the company introduced the Microsoft Surface Studio, it was reported that the status of the flagship smartphone is touch and go.

"My sources continue to say no new Microsoft phones of any kind are coming this year, either," Microsoft expert Mary Jo Foley stated in her report.

"If and when anything like a Surface Phone ends up materializing, it will likely be late 2017 or maybe even not until 2018, my contacts have said recently," she went on to say.

From the looks of it, the certainty of the release of the Microsoft Surface Phone has dwindled, and the plans for a mobile venture are still murky on the tech giant's side.

That being said, Microsoft may not be ready to get back to the mobile scene just yet. The company is rumored to discontinue the Lumia line by the end of the year.

It would make sense for the company to come out with the Microsoft Surface Phone by then so that its fans will have an option and something to look forward to, but this may not be the case.

The Microsoft Surface Phone remains shrouded in mystery from the first time it was heard of. However, there are reports here and there suggesting that Microsoft has big plans for it, seeing that it will save the company's mobile doom.

According to reports, it will come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor and 8GB RAM. It will allegedly offer storage racking up to 512GB, plenty of space to save apps and photos taken from its supposed 20-megapixel Carl Zeiss primary camera.

The Microsoft Surface Phone was reportedly pushed back to spring next year so that Microsoft can wait for the Redstone 2 upgrade for the Windows 10, which should allow for additional features.

However, the delay up to 2018 is understood by many as a sign that the software giant may have given up on the Microsoft Surface Phone and the mobile competition altogether.