Weekly poll results: Surface Duo excites, but leaves many questions unanswered

13 October 2019
Microsoft showed a prototype and said that specs might change before the late 2020 launch.

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Yes, it leaves many questions unanswered, such as who's going to buy this thing?

    imho people are missing the essential: surface duo, essentially, is NOT a smartphone. is a pocketable, internet linked, office tool equipped, in subsidiary, with a phone facility, targeting, as most microsoft products do, specific group of users (ex students taking classes notes, kindle and equivalent alternative) and professionals, and not the masses. as a matter of fact it is missing most characteristics that make a smartphone attractive for the common user: no slickness of the dimensions (looks, feels and will be used rather like the old times paper notebooks carried in the chest pocket), no fancy camera(s) on the back, no display large or fast enough for gaming or watching movies, no fancy looks with slim chins or useless waterfalls.

      Anonymous, 13 Oct 2019this is a typical microsoft product , this focus to much on... morelol can't you watch movies on a single screen like you do on your smartphone
      are you i fan boy ?

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        • Moj
        • au1
        • 13 Oct 2019

        Really nice device. Definitely looking forward to it.
        Also i am a bit mad at microsoft cause no more surface books? those were the best!
        They should definitely continue that lane of products.

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          • Anonymous
          • DkP
          • 13 Oct 2019

          Anonymous, 13 Oct 2019One hand usage is already destroyed long ago with large unw... moreYes true.. Phones with more than 5" display is not really meant for single hand usage. Big screen & one hand usage is really poles apart.

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            • Anonymous
            • LX7
            • 13 Oct 2019

            Two things, do I have to open up the thing every time I get a call? I don't think I like that and probably the hinges will wear out over time, what's the benefit that makes it worth to open each time you get a call? Secondly Microsoft has left behind their hardware customers again and again and again, it wouldn't be surprised that if this thing won't take off they will most likely do the same.

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              • Anonymous
              • Kxu
              • 13 Oct 2019

              Anonymous, 13 Oct 2019Just make it less wide and that's it. It shoud atlest fit i... moreOne hand usage is already destroyed long ago with large unwielding single screen.

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                • Anonymous
                • xkR
                • 13 Oct 2019

                this is a typical microsoft product , this focus to much on input methods , multi tasking and web browsing , typing editing and surfing will be easy to live with , however that hinge in the midle will limit media consumption ( watching movies for ex ) and since its a thin device with two screens battery life will suffer a bit

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                  • Anti-Clark
                  • DkM
                  • 13 Oct 2019

                  Is it the surface moniker or the ugly ondroid OS for bigger Walkmans, they loved. ! Or comment is from such a significant IP that it ll change the shape of Hallow world.

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                    • XTR
                    • Kg{
                    • 13 Oct 2019

                    Excites? If this came out in 2016. Sony, ZTE, Lenovo even LG already worked on this kind of design. Nothing special really. Of course those older devices were thicker and got way more bezels.

                      It's an excellent form factor
                      with loads of potential
                      I can use the other screen for typing
                      for playing games
                      it's like true multitasking at least with two windows

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                        • Anonymous
                        • uZa
                        • 13 Oct 2019

                        Just make it less wide and that's it. It shoud atlest fit in the hand because one handed usage is dead now.

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