Features of Microsoft’s Folding Mobile: Surface Duo Price

Going back to last year, one of those events held in the “old normal” comes to mind. The Surface Event held at the end of 2019 in New York was used by Microsoft to announce a series of devices, among which the Surface Du o stood out, a kind of folding mobile that now has a price, a sale date and new features.

Features of Microsoft's Folding Mobile

The device marks Microsoft’s return to the smartphone market after an unsuccessful relationship with Nokia that ultimately doomed Windows Phone, its mobile phone operating system. That is why this new folding mobile from Bill Gates’ firm works with Android and boasts a dual screen joined with a 360-degree hinge.

Surface Duo

Microsoft’s return to the smartphone market

Microsoft claims the Duo is its thinnest Surface family product yet, weighing in at 250g, it is just 4.8mm thick (when open). The device, unlike the Galaxy Z Fold2 or Huawei‘s Mate X, does not have a flexible panel, but instead has two screens, 5.6 inches each, two AMOLED panels with an aspect ratio of 4: 3 and a screen resolution of 1800 × 1350. When opened, the displays offer a screen space of 8.1 inches with a 3: 2 aspect ratio and a resolution of 2700 × 1800.

Under the hood, this new Microsoft Surface Duo is powered by last year’s Snapdragon 855 processor, a CPU based on the 7nm process that offers clock speeds of up to 2.84 GHz and is paired with an Adreno 640 GPU for the smooth running of games. The processor is supported by 6 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of internal storage and a 3,577 mAh battery that supports 18 W fast charging.

Surface Duo

As for the software, as we have said, the highlight of the phone is that it works with Android 10 , but with its own customization layer called Microsoft Launcher UI that offers various Microsoft applications and services such as Office, Outlook, OneNote, etc. Microsoft claims that the audience for this new product is, above all, business. For this reason, through the Surface Duo, the brand allows users to access a cloud-based Windows 10 experience thanks to the Windows Virtual Desktop. This allows you to use your mobile as a mini laptop.

In the camera department, the device has a single 11MP sensor with an f / 2.0 aperture. Mind you, the camera can shoot 4K video at 60fps and it comes packed with a ton of enhancement features and features like super resolution and portrait mode.

Surface Duo

Price and availability

Unfortunately, we don’t have much more information on the phone’s specs, but at least we know for how much and when it will sell. This Microsoft Surface Duo will go on sale next month for a price that starts at $ 1,399 . It will be available for purchase from September 10 in the US but there is no information yet on its availability in other markets.

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