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Or do a Zoom call on one screen and review a PowerPoint on the other screen. It’s great to read an article in Chrome on one screen and take notes in OneNote on the other screen. The obvious benefit of the Surface Duo’s split-screen design is that you can display two different apps side by side. But the portrait, panorama, and video modes all worked well.

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Flipping the phone over fixed the problem, as the software instantly adjusted, but it was annoying every time it happened.Īll of the resulting photos looked a little lacking in vibrant color and fine detail compared with some of the top cameras on other phones. After I folded the Duo, sometimes I ended up with the camera facing toward me, not my subject, and the Duo remained in selfie mode. Maybe it’s because I’m right-handed or maybe it’s because the camera is on the right side of the fold, but I occasionally found it awkward to fold the phone and take a picture. The 11-megapixel shooter is decent enough for selfies, but taking a regular picture requires folding the Surface Duo with both screens facing out, and correctly pointing the side with the camera at the desired subject. That means no wide angle or telephoto lenses. There is just one camera, located above the right-hand interior screen of the device, and there are no cameras on the outside. Panay has said that photography was not an emphasis of the Surface Duo, and it shows. Call quality is fine and even better using your favorite pair of wireless Bluetooth earbuds (sorry, no headphone jack).

Some people find the act of using the Surface Duo as a phone awkward, with the wide device folded in half pressed to your ear, but I got used to it pretty quickly. And the two screens have massive top and bottom bezels compared with rivals that have moved to nearly all-glass front displays. There’s also no 5G, the superfast new wireless technology that carriers are slowly rolling out across the country and have included in most new phones this year. The processor is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, which generally powered flagship phones released in 2019. Still, the Surface Duo has been in development for a long time, and that shows up in some less than cutting-edge specs. Unlike folding phones that have bending glass screens, the Duo has two distinct screens separated by a clearly visible air gap at the crease in the middle of the device.

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Thanks to two cleverly designed hinges, the Duo opens and closes silently and smoothly over a full 360 degrees. The hardware is absolutely stunning, from the bright white glass exterior to the dual 5.6-inch sharp interior displays. And the Surface Duo is one of Panay’s proudest accomplishments yet. Known for most of its history as a software powerhouse, Microsoft has certainly upped its hardware game under chief product officer Panos Panay.

But there are also a few missing elements included in most rival phones-folding and traditional-that are hard to live without. I’ve been using the slick $1,400 device for a few weeks, and there’s a lot to love in Microsoft’s return to the mobile market.

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On Thursday, Microsoft puts on sale its new Surface Duo device, a unique take on the folding phone trend that runs plenty of the company’s own mobile apps on top of Google’s Android operating system.