Microsoft gets back in the smartphone game
Remember when Microsoft tried to get in on the smartphone games a bunch of years back? Remember how they even built their own Windows OS for their devices? You probably don’t as they went away about as quick as they appeared. Heck, the only thing I can remember is that Windows phones were the budget of the budget level on most phone carriers. They were the perfect grandparent’s phone.
Now Microsoft is back in the smartphone game with the newly announced Surface Duo, their rumored device that looks to usher them back into the smartphone game. Only this time they’ve learned a few things and seem to be serious in making an impact on the market.
The Surface Duo is part of the Surface line and is running on Android for most of what it does. However, Microsoft stated that Windows will play a part on the phone in some fashion, so the idea is that they will be using a modified version of Android with some sort of built-in support for Windows applications like Office and the like for integration across the Surface line.
But the biggest news was that this the Surface Duo, as the name would suggest, is going to be a dual-screen foldable phone, something that is all the rage right now. It seems they are taking note from a number of technical and design issues that are plaguing current foldable phones and instead of a single screen they are essentially cramming two phones into one.
While odd-looking, the advantage is that multitasking should feel a lot more natural with applications basically running on two separate phones and not stretched out like the would be on a tablet or traditional folding phone. Aside from that we don’t know much and no information was given on a possible release date, but indications are that we can expect it in 2020, hopefully before the folding trend dies off.
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