(He also read Dune on the original Duo, which I hadn’t realized when I began reading the science fiction fan favorite on the Duo 2). It was also littered with bugs, as WIRED’s Julian Chokkattu found. If only the sometimes-unresponsive touchscreen didn’t raise my cortisol levels. The Microsoft Surface Duo 2 promises clarity, a flow state, the opportunity to gaze from app to app without that persnickety app-switching swipe from the bottom of your phone. In the world that exists outside of phone apps, where we explore the edges of finite, physical space and where most of us just lead terribly messy lives, the lines between work and life have become uncomfortably blurred. Google Docs, where you’ve jotted down your test notes about this befuddling phone, and Microsoft Teams, which you’ll use to ask Microsoft execs seven different versions of “Why?” Work and play. Twitter sitting opposite the news article you should probably read before you tweet it. Your email inbox over here, your email compose window over there. Your calendar on one side, your Slack on the other. Some apps span both screens, sure, but for the most part you’re being urged to live in two states at once.
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The phone runs on Android 11 (last year’s Android release), which means it comes preinstalled with key Google apps and you can download any app you’d find in the Google Play Store, although Microsoft promotes its own Office productivity apps above all else. On the Duo 2, the separation of the displays is so overt that Microsoft at least deserves credit for committing to this design. So yes, it makes a really nice, really expensive, Kindle replacement. The Duo 2 felt most natural to use was when I was kicking back and reading, holding it like a small book, which it so much resembles. But doing all the usual phone stuff on the Duo 2-browsing the web, taking photos, texting, Slacking, Zooming-was awkward on this two-screens-with-a-hinge phone. It’s a glimpse into the folding-phone future. The Duo 2 is no doubt a conversation starter. Then I mentioned that it cost $1,500, and he lost interest.) I told him it was a new Microsoft foldable phone. (Our server, intrigued, paused to ask what this thing was.
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One night at dinner, I scanned a menu QR code with half of the Duo 2 while using the second display to look up a bottle of wine. The addictive app spanned the Duo 2’s dual screens in a way that almost-almost-made those dual screens worth it. I also browsed TikTok more than a person my age probably should. At least, that’s what I spent the majority of my time doing while I used it. The Microsoft Surface Duo 2 is great for reading Dune.
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