It’s actually a really great concept, better than Samsung’s folding screen in many ways, but there is still some way to go in terms of the execution, it must be said.Īndroid still doesn’t use two screens all that well. Or, if you use the Duo 2 in laptop mode, it uses the top screen like a laptop monitor and the bottom screen as the keyboard. The Duo 2, on the other hand, can be put into single-screen mode, but mostly it wants to be used as a multi-tasking device, with two apps open on the two screens at once, or with one app (such as Outlook) taking up both screens, but using each screen differently.įor instance, Outlook will use the left screen for showing your inbox, and the right screen for showing the contents of the selected email. The Fold 3 is brilliant for reading books, for instance. The Fold 3 does have a split-screen mode for its big screen, but in practice you’ll rarely use it, instead using the phone as the mother of all single-tasking devices. The Fold and the Duo sound like similar concepts, but over the weeks, I’ve come to realise they’re polar opposites. If you’re getting the phone/thing, you might as well get the Pen, too.) (The Pen, incidentally, adds $190 to the already expensive $2319 to $2769 Microsoft wants for the Duo 2. Like the Fold, the Surface Duo is a device which opens up to reveal an enormous amount of screen real estate, which you can use for getting stuff done in ways you just can’t (or, really, won’t) do on a regular phone.īut where the Fold opens up to reveal one, 7.6-inch folding screen, the Duo opens up to reveal two screens, each 5.8-inches in size, which you can use as a single(ish) 8.3-inch screen when you want to do things like review and markup PDFs using the Surface Slim Pen 2. It’s very much like Samsung’s Fold 3, which Samsung refers to as a “phone”, but Microsoft doesn’t call its thing a phone and, though I think it’s one of the most useful mobile productivity things we’ve had in the Digital Life Labs lately, I’m not sure I’d want to call it my phone, either.Īdd a third screen, though, and I’d be tempted, in the exact same way that the second screen on the Fold 3 gets it over the line and makes it (to my mind) the most useful phone on the market. The Microsoft Surface Duo 2 has two 5.8-inch screens inside, which you can use as a single 8.3-inch screen.Īnd I use the word “thing” advisedly there because, after a month of using the Surface Duo 2, it’s still not entirely clear to me what I’m supposed to call it. It would be sort of like what Samsung has added to its Galaxy Fold 3, except the Fold only has two screens and the Trio would have three, which is obviously one better. ![]() I have in mind a small external screen, on the front, so you don’t have to open the thing up just to respond to messages or answer calls. Would it be too much to ask Microsoft to slap a third screen onto the Surface Duo 2, and rename it the Surface Trio?
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