In a move which marks Microsoft's apparently foray into the 'selfie' phone arena, the company's hardware chief Stephen Elop - Nokia's ex-CEO who now runs Microsoft's devices business - has reportedly given the employees a glimpse of a forthcoming 'selfie' handset.

According to a recent The Verge report, citing the information shared by an unidentified source at Microsoft, the 'selfie' phone was shown to thousands of Microsoft employees at the company's annual employee meeting held in Seattle on Monday.

As per the sources, the 'selfie' handset which Elop showed off to the Microsoft employees at the meeting is a device which features a 5-megapixel front-facing camera and a 4.7-inch screen.

The details shared by the source clearly reveal that the front camera of the 'selfie' phone from Microsoft will be much more powerful than the 1.2-megapixel front camera of Apple's iPhone 5 handset. Moreover, the bigger screen of the 'selfie' phone is also better-suited for users who want to their own photos.

So far as the availability of Microsoft's 'selfie' phone is concerned, The Verge's source revealed that the handset, along with another high-end Windows Phone device, will likely be launched in the near future.