

In fact, Microsoft said it chose to build the Surface Duo using Android instead of its Windows software because of the large base of hundreds of thousands of apps that already exist in the Android store. This device is an Android, in that it runs Google's mobile software forĪnd phones, and it is designed to run pretty much all the apps you can use on a standard non-Apple device. This is easier than asking whether the Surface Duo is a phone. That's the point, we look at where the Surface Duo fits in the world, and why Microsoft chose to make a new handheld device after a series of embarrassing multibillion-dollar attempts that ended in failure. In Microsoft's two-screen Surface Duo isn't an iPhone or Galaxy Fold.
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But in the end, he went deeper in in the full review and said, "The sense of flow that the Duo aspires to - that feel of things working well together, the device not getting in the way - hasn't been there for me." Stein also talks about why he hasn't like dual-screen devices before, and why the Surface Duo may be the device to change his mind. Microsoft shipped us a near-production prototype device with the screens replaced by clear glass so we can see the inner working and learn how it works. In I'm already folding in love with the feel of Microsoft's Surface Duo, Stein shares what it was like to hold a Surface Duo prototype. (Or you can just read our final Surface Duo review here.) Still, Microsoft invited us to talk with its engineers about how the Surface Duo was conceived, the technology invented to make it possible and how it works.
