Microsoft's Surface Duo 3 will have a foldable screen
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- 17 Jan 2023
Alex, 12 Jan 2023True. Microsoft killed NOKIA, the best phone brand ever. B... moreThis is all large companies that buy out competitors or smaller brands. They buy them for the IP more than anything. Apple has done the same and Google even more so.
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- gqb
- 15 Jan 2023
Malik, 15 Jan 2023They had a decent OS.. WindowsOS.. From 2010 to 2016 it was... moreThere's nothing wrong with Windows Phone, it can be more than capable as a viable third mobile OS. It's just that the management weren't too serious about it.
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- Malik
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- 15 Jan 2023
They had a decent OS.. WindowsOS.. From 2010 to 2016 it was evolving.. Microsoft should have experimented with that OS for a surface phone in 2022..with 12 years of evolution MS should have brought something special.. But their vision is useless.. Always wrong and late to the market. Surface phones eith android app support running a purely evolved windows OS would be a real competitor.
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- Anonymous
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- 13 Jan 2023
Daemon Targaryen, 11 Jan 2023I will never forgive Microsoft for killing Nokia. I wish No... moreMicrosoft didn't kill nokia. Nokia kills itself by insisting on using their own OS, symbian, when lots of other brands have been using android. Later on when symbian clearly fails, Nokia still insisted on using their another newly developed OS, Maemo/MeeGo. Although this new OS was praised at that time, it was too little, too late, not enough apps in the nokia app store, and nokia slowly descend into oblivion, and only later on Microsoft decided to buy them.
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- 13 Jan 2023
Alex, 12 Jan 2023True. Microsoft killed NOKIA, the best phone brand ever.
B... moreHow wrong can you be...
Nokia was in collapse when Microsoft bought them and tried to revive them yet again with the wrong OS. If Nokia wasn`t that stubborn in keeping alive their precious Symbian, they would`ve stayed one of the greatest smartphones.
Nokia`s "kryptonite" was actually...Symbian
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- 12 Jan 2023
Daemon Targaryen, 11 Jan 2023I will never forgive Microsoft for killing Nokia. I wish No... moreTrue. Microsoft killed NOKIA, the best phone brand ever.
But they are like the PLAGUE. Whatever Microsoft touches, they destroy. NOKIA, Skype, Swift Key, HOTMAIL, etc etc etc. Great brands and great products become JUNK if touched by psychoBill...
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- 12 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 11 Jan 2023Try using two apps differently on a foldable phone. I have ... moreCheck Oppo Fold that latest one it is very nice compact
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- 12 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 11 Jan 2023Try using two apps differently on a foldable phone. I have ... moreThat is precisely why I never miss my old Samsung Fold at all. A dual display is much more flexible when using multiple apps simultaneously side-by-side, especially if it can be detachable like LG's Dual Screen case.
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- 12 Jan 2023
Xir, 12 Jan 2023Yeah, sounds like a very good business case. They had a ... moreI'd put the camera on the left display panel as the Surface Duo hinge can be turned 360 degrees, thus giving the outright flexibility of using the camera while being folded.
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- 12 Jan 2023
‘going for a similar form factor to the vivo X Fold (pictured throughout this post) and the Honor Magic Vs’. Not a Samsung fanboy, but making references to Chinese knock offs is so sly and disrespectful to the Samsung who came up with this design in the first place.
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- 12 Jan 2023
Yeah, sounds like a very good business case.
They had a unique firm factor with duo 1. Screwed it up by adding a camera hump in duo 2. And now, with better software experience and lower prices gaining popularity, ditch your complete design to go for just another foldable with plastic screens.
They should make duo 1 design with a beefy camera, smaller bezel screens and a larger battery. Make each side 2 mm thicker, your audience would not care about that.
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- 11 Jan 2023
I will never forgive Microsoft for killing Nokia. I wish Nokia was still the leader of the mobile industry and not Samsung and Apple.
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- 11 Jan 2023
what i'd really like to see (and buy....) is a 5.5-6" ms foldable machine with windows os but capable to run android apps. like the recents win 11 can do...
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- 11 Jan 2023
I prefer "narrower and taller edge-to-edge displays, wireless charging, and other unnamed improvements".
16-18:9 aspect screens, water resistance and longer battery life would've made it my choice for next phone.
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- 11 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 11 Jan 2023This is a fail! MS should have continued working on this de... moreAbsolutely. Two flat screens perfectly work for me rather than two.
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- Anonymous
- gqi
- 11 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 11 Jan 2023None of those happen in modern foldables. We are not in 20... moreSorry, but it's still going these days. Even the rivals still can't get it right either.
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- Anonymous
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- 11 Jan 2023
This is a fail! MS should have continued working on this design. It is the perfect work mobile device. So many more options with dual screens than a single folding one.
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- 11 Jan 2023
In general, it must be humiliating for Microsoft to make a smartsandwich with an operating system from Google
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- Anonymous
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- 11 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 11 Jan 2023Yeah right, let's have a ridiculously expensive phone ... moreNone of those happen in modern foldables. We are not in 2019. 1st gen issues have long been solved.
Actual issue remains the thickness of those phones when folded and the bad/unusable aspect ratio when unfolded.
IMO components have to become much thinner and be built precisely for foldable situations (instead of reusing regular components), to achieve extreme thinness per fold, say 3mm each , which would enable adding more folds into the mix (have a 3 fold design instead of the current 2 fold).
If both of the above are solved (thickness when folded, bad aspect ratio when unfolded) and the above paragraph does explain a possible path, then and only then foldabkes will be mature products better than both the products they replace (better than both slab phones and tablets).
I like the Westworld design. Their foldables ofc are so slick *because* (in that universe) are possibly using components precisely engineered for foldable devices (ultra thin, but large surface regardless). IMO that (the above) is the next step in personal devices.
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- Anonymous
- gqi
- 11 Jan 2023
Technologist, 11 Jan 2023finally useful design instead of dual-screen design Yeah right, let's have a ridiculously expensive phone with screen that creases every time you unfold the phone and get flimsy in long use. That is a better device. 😂🤣