Microsoft Surface Duo review - Prototype first, product second - Android

Microsoft’s new “foldable” phone — the Surface Duo — is certainly different. While most of the foldable market has been defined by flexible devices that can seamlessly transition from small to big or vice versa, Microsoft believes in breaking your focus into two distinct windows.

The Surface Duo is a dual-screen device more than a foldable one, though it does fold almost perfectly in half when closed, leaving a clean booklet of hardware that is an impressive feat of engineering.

But what are the use cases for a dual-screen device? Are two separate displays as useful as one expandable one? And, more importantly, was Microsoft able to nail the smartphone nearly four years after the death of Windows Phone?

Find out in Android Authority’s Microsoft Surface Duo review.

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