MicroSFT’s first Android phone, the Surface Duo, is now available

The Surface Duo of Micro .ft, the maker of Windows, is a dual-screen Android phone, now available to customers for ordering and shipping. This is the first smartphone introduced by Microsoft since it ended support for the Windows Phone platform five years ago.

Priced at ભો 1,399, the Surface Duo has two 5.6-inch OLED screens, each with a resolution of 1,800 by 1,350 pixels. The screens are separated by a 360 degree capture, so you can open them like a book or fold them all the way. Of course, the device is enormous – 145.2 mm × 186.9 mm × 4.8 mm. As our own Ron Amadeo notes, when the phone’s ship date was officially announced, it was a bit big in some people’s books, although it wouldn’t fit in too many pockets. And up to that point, micro .ft doesn’t call it exactly one.

So if it’s not a phone, is it a tablet? Sort of, but it comes with features like phones, runs Android’s smartphone build and includes voice calls on similar cellular networks like AT&T, which sells phones in addition to the unlocked version sold directly by Microsoft. Is a carrier.

MicroSFT has announced the Surface Duo along with the Surface Neon, which is also a dual screen tablet / phone hybrid. But Neo is built for a version of Windows designed for dual-screen devices instead of Android.

Speaking of specs, the Surface Duo has 6GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 855 processor. It comes in 128GB and 256GB variants and includes a 3577 mAh battery. There’s only one camera (11 megapixels), but it can be either a front or rear camera depending on what you do with the leash. User authentication is done by a fingerprint reader, and the device supports input from the Surface Pen. Speaking of ports, there is only one: USB-C.

It only has one speaker, so you won’t find a stereo audio dio here. That said, given the number of devices you can hold or direct, it was difficult to create a stereo audio dio with just two speakers.

Surface Duo, runs Android 10. Android 11 just came out this week, so this duo comes with an earlier version of Android. However, it is not uncommon with Android phones.

Dual-screen phones like these have emerged in part because of recent efforts by companies like Samsung to make foldable screens that haven’t gone well (just read our reviews), but the dream of opening a smartphone-sized device for wider use, a tablet-sized viewport continues.

If you feel like this kind of early adopter, you can order a Duo from the website of microsoft .ft from today.

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