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The Surface Duo 2 has been upgraded in just about every way compared to the original. But is that enough to make Microsoft’s $1,500 phone worth recommending?
The Surface Duo 2 has been upgraded in just about every way compared to the original. But is that enough to make Microsoft’s $1,500 phone worth recommending?
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BRAND cellphone for sale.
$100 /PC you can get it at my warehouse in sacramento. Or by UPS or Fedex， express fees not included.
You can compare price it at amazon. Buy it you will get great suprise.
Z Fold 4 smokes this phone all day.
The 10ds
got first generation very reliable love it pros and cons on operating 11 sadly but cheap to buy boxed like brand new second hand cex unlike surface duo 2 shockly not cheap if y can find one not easy here in Britain sadly much underrated 😢.
So it's called a phone but does it actually have a phone? I have yet to see any review in which a phone function is used. .
There was a surface duo 2?
Does this phone have compatibility with Whatsapp and especially Wechat? I combatant communicate with Chinese biz acquaintances. How about Express VPN?
Just wondering as several months have gone by, if anyone who currently has the Surface Duo 2 would like to share their overall user experience and how it is now? I heard that after a bunch of software updates that the device is running better and it's not as buggy as it was at launch. I am really interested in this as being my backup phone(I currently have a Fold 3 as my main device) and love new technology as I am kind of bored with traditional slab phones. Also the Duo 2 has fallen to about $900-$1000 on EBay so I am getting very tempted to get it. 📱📱🤳🤳❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Am i the only person out there who understands that like 90% of current phones are just as large as the folded duo 2 form factor? Like seriously i know one person who has a small phone and he is thinking to upgrade to a larger one.
I don't get the hate. It's a great device, I'm waiting for a price drop and I'm getting it. 😉
Great product, love it.
Its an awesome phone, dont care what you all say.
How the 2 screens are separated down the middle kind of unprofessional if you ask me
Is it rain or water resistant?
I still think they need a Microsoft Windows version. I don't want android apps and that in everything.
Cool purple hair… let me guess you’re outraged by everything?
Can you watch Netflix on one screen and on Facebook on the other at the same time?
I'd buy it if it weren't for the camera bump, the thing I loved about the original is that you could use it as a normal phone by folding it back on itself.
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This is a bad review. Focuses more on the apps than the phone itself. The app developers are responsible for making apps work with dual screen phones, and not Microsoft.
Here is what I want from Surface Duo 2:
-Vertical orientation. Application on top screen, input on bottom screen.
-Easy switching between applications on top screen – onenote, joplin, remote desktop, SSH, sms messaging, discord, etc.
-Easy switching between input methods on the bottom screen – swipe keyboard, full tap keyboard (for ssh), handwriting input, and mouse-emulation touchpad (mainly for rdp).
-A good handwriting interpreter to text input, so I can handwrite messages for sms/discord/etc. So far I haven't been able to find this demonstrated.
Everything else I'd want I've seen demonstrated, and it all looks really impressive, except this use case. Can anyone tell me if it can operate like this? In particular, does it even have handwriting interpretation input?
Honestly Microsoft rushed too much with this upgrade, camera seems like an afterthought. Camera bump and being unable to fold it fully. I want it to succeed, Microsoft needs to work on this and not rush to make people happy but focus on building a solid unique device.
This sounds like more of a hassle then a plus!! I'll pass!
It would be better if they just made this into a tablet and not a phone.
Best phone
this is a joke! for that price just go with a samsung! also just about all micro surface product sucks!
addition of small display at front to take picture and notification would be better. camera with vivid mode as iphone
If you have the device in landscape mode, can you open the same app on each individual screen? Two screens of the same app?
It will flip like previous windows phones..
Thank you for a really good review on this product, very informative and detailed. 👍
Microsoft failed on design thinking
There are so many people hating on the Duo because it's specifically a niche device. In my opinion more people should look at it like that. Most of the main gripes have been addressed in one way or another, and now some folk nag about a camera bump. Can't please everybody unfortunately. I'm not saying it's perfect or anything but personally I can appreciate the innovation.
you missed on this review by talking about Spanning app across screens. you did not cover a main use, Multitasking seperate apps on the two screens. That is the biggest use case of the Two Screens.
All we really wanted was for it to run a full version of Win 10 ….
DAMN , WHAT A NICE 3DS
It's clearly not a phone, it's a book.
Nice shape tho,
I have the z fold 3 and i will never go back to a regular phone again.
Surface duo has two screens side by side. This is not a tablet with one screen. Once again. Surface duo has two screens. 😉
What's the OS on this?
$799 it should be.
The shut offs are awful I hope they fixed that issue.
You can't use it as a big tablet because it is not. Lady and gentlemen, this is not a tablet.
It similar to someone use two screen pc setup to play 1st rpg game and compare it to ultrawide screen.
That so stupid.
Thinking about the manner in which people use dual monitors on their desktops, it appears the reviewer has completely missed this type of usage. Context switching is of course easier with two displays. Software that allows toolbars and app windows to be detached and moved to the 2nd screen provides additionally flexibility and customisation. The Duo 2 provides an opportunity for software developers to take advantage of “2 screens” in a mobile device.
You know it’s bad when Microsoft has to run Android on one of there devices… the future looks very bleak…but just to add…the lg v60 thinq dual screen has all that and it’s cheaper. And after Microsoft abandoning my Lumia 950xl, never again.