I simply love having the best possible camera I can buy in my pocket with – for example – the iPhone XS Pro Max Ghia Sport XL. I have a reservation about the Duo camera. Watching Panos describe his daily usage I felt myself nodding away thinking, ‘yeah… that could… yeah that could be me.’ I’m not quite sure what it will do or how I will use it. The XS is a hot rocking cool looking mobile phone. You know how I was basically sold on the Huawei Mate XS? Well… I just re-watched their video. Or maybe Microsoft will test the waters in the US first before releasing internationally. It appears to be selling first only in the US… Although I think my preference will be to order one locally when that’s possible – I’m hopeful that either the local mobile networks or the big electrical retailers will soon start to carry the Duo. I am living in Oman here in the Middle East so I’ll need to figure out the best way of getting one. The Surface Duo with the pen and earbuds Are you buying one then? It’s… a … it’s something new.Īnd when it comes to Android, the familiarity – the ability to be able to pick-up immediately with your standard go-to Android apps – is tremendously powerful. Watching how Panos and Shilpa are using their Duos really brought home the potential of this new category. I routinely use my Apple devices with Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint throughout the day. Kudos to the Microsoft team for embracing Android and the Apple ecosystem – especially the iPad. We are, all or most of us, even the die-hard Apple fans, having to live and work in the Microsoft ecosystem at some point during the business day. Panos routinely used this phrase: “The Microsoft you love and the Android you know.” Don’t underestimate the power of this. “The Microsoft you love and the Android you know” Just watching Panos and his colleague Shilpa handle the device effortlessly, putting it in and out of pockets, folding it, making it stand, swiping around, showing off the apps… I want one. I love the ingenuity and the deep thinking they’ve clearly done to put together such a device. If you’ve got a coffee, I strongly recommend you sit and watch to get more of an inkling about what they’re cooking at Microsoft. It’s surprisingly intimate and highly informative – Panos is just brilliant: He gives a great introduction to the device and the concepts behind it. I sat and watched the awesome video featuring Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer, Panos Panay, introduce the Duo in a 30 minute private press briefing. It feels like Microsoft really thought about the Duo, in-depth. It offers seamless integration with all the Microsoft tools. It’s running on Android – so you have the whole app ecosystem to play with too. It folds back on itself with a 360 degree hinge. It’s exceptionally light and each screen is only 4.8mm thin. It’s somewhat annoying when these devices are then priced at GBP 1,399.) That’s the approximate conversion from USD 1,399 for the 128GB model as specified on the Microsoft website… (Side note: I won’t be surprised if the currency conversion is upped for the Brits as usual. The Telegraph reports the Duo will be available from the 10th of September this year and, keeping in mind the rather obsessive post I wrote about the Huawei Mate XS earlier in the week, it’s due to cost about GBP 1,059. I am really, really interested in this one. It’s called the Duo – for obvious reasons I imagine. I always kept it in the back of my mind though, especially when Apple was nailing it with the iPad.ġ1 years later, though and here’s what’s coming from Microsoft next month: The Surface Duo I was so disappointed that nothing happened. Here is the photo I used for the post: The 2009 photo from Gizmodo’s Microsoft Courier coverage It was a brief post linking to a Gizmodo article showing the Courier concept tablet device that Microsoft had been playing with. Supports HDR, slow-motion up to 240 fps, HEVC and H.Back in 2009, I wrote a post called, “ Stop everything and have a look at Microsoft’s Courier Tablet.” Multi-frame HDR, night mode, adjustable portrait mode, panorama Two 5.8" displays combine into one 8.3" display / HDR, adaptive refreshį/1.7, OIS, dual-pixel PDAF, LED flash, ToF sensor networks, and may be available from third-party dealers or smaller, regional carriers. This phone is not currently available from any major U.S. High-end specs include a Snapdragon 888 chip, standard, wide, and tele cameras, adaptive display refresh up to 90 Hz, and 5G including mmWave and excellent support for all US networks. This unique, productivity-focused device consists of two small displays connected by a narrow 360º hinge to form one large 8.3-inch display.
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