Microsoft Announces Surface Duo - An Android Dual-Screen Device
by Andrei Frumusanu on October 2, 2019 12:15 PM EST- Posted in
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Today at Microsoft’s Surface event in New York, alongside new laptops and various other Surface devices, we saw the company announce a new kind of device; the new “Surface Duo”. The new device more or less loosely described as a phone, is a clamshell dual-screen phone with a full swivel hinge design.
The design of the phone at the moment look relatively simplistic, but we were certainly shown just prototype devices. The interesting design aspect was that the device lacked any kind of external features aside from the Windows logo – particularly missing from the device was any kind of rear camera.
On the “inside” – or rather more aptly, on the side with the screens, we did see the device have an earpiece speaker as well as a camera. It’s possible Microsoft where is envisaging you using this single camera in all scenarios and would be relatively practical given you can use the opposing outwards facing screen as the viewfinder.
The screens themselves has two 5.6” screens which when unfolded amount to a diagonal of 8.3”.
The device is running a customized version of Android as the OS.
Currently the prototype devices are said to be running Android 9 Pie with a Snapdragon 855 SoC – although these specifications are sure to change until the device’s actual launch.
Much like the Surface Neo, this has been pretty much just a teaser pre-announcement of the Duo as the devices aren’t scheduled to come out until the holiday season in 2020.
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Tams80 - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - link
Nice strawman you've made there. I suspect it was one person who believes everyone believes that, or, you know, you making it up/falling for a troll.Although, yes, all those features would be nice. Hell, most should be encouraged as they would make our devices less disposable, which, if you haven't noticed, might be something we need to do...
name99 - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - link
Tell me, traveler. Do they have jokes in the strange land where you come from?crimsonson - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - link
I wish I could up vote you.The Garden Variety - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - link
That makes two of us.PeachNCream - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link
Three.nikon133 - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link
Four... I would up-vote earlier, but i was laughing too hard to typeabrowne1993 - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - link
We have jokes, but they're supposed to be funny.Tams80 - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link
And what was the joke exactly? Seriously, there are multiple jokes that your nebulous joke could be.Quantumz0d - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - link
What a shameless Flamebait lol. Do these companies pay people to actually do this feat of doing less is good BS ?0ldman79 - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link
For a lot of us not having those three makes it a non-starter, so yeah.