![]() Apple has that Shot on iPhone billboard campaign, and the iPhone Photography Awards contest. Many companies releasing premium phones justify their $1,000 or more prices with the beautiful photographs they say you could take. Richard Peterson/CNET Does the Surface Duo have a camera? The Surface Duo's individual screens are thinner than an iPad Air. Still, it wouldn't say how many folds the Surface Duo could last through, except that the company expects the hinge mechanism to last beyond the Surface Duo's own natural lifecycle. ![]() Microsoft preemptively said folding test robots don't simulate real life usage the same way its own labs do. When we put the new Motorla Razr through FoldBot's paces last year, that device didn't make it to 28,000 folds. (Although we're just starting to learn how people use foldingĪnd that could change with the different designs companies are inventing). That was much less than the 200,000 folds we estimated it would go through during five years of use. The Samsung Galaxy Fold began failing after about 120,000 folds during our test last year. We've tested a few folding devices at CNET using a special robot developed by SquareTrade. The company's also delayed until at least 2021, if not longer. But that device, which brings together two 9-inch screens likely wouldn't fit in your pocket as easily as the Surface Duo. ![]() That's because it'll be powered by Windows 10X, a variant designed for dual-screen PCs. Its larger cousin, the Surface Neo, will run many of the same apps your computer has today. That's one of the tradeoffs Microsoft had to make when building this device. The Surface Duo runs Microsoft apps, including Office, Teams and Outlook, but it doesn't run the same software as your computer. until I get hamstrung by popping the keyboard up in one window or another and trying to either thumb-swipe or flip the phone and type." Will the Surface Duo run Windows apps like my PC? I try Slack and Gmail, which work together fine. That also means more apps may eventually be programmed for the Surface Duo as a result.īut in his review, Scott Stein ran into several app issues, for example, he says, "The laggy feel of my review Duo and its early software, plus the weird interface, make navigation a serious challenge. The company said that it's working with Google to integrate some of the software it developed for the Surface Duo back into Android so other two-screen devices in the future will benefit from Microsoft's work. When you swipe your finger across the screen, an animated page follows along. Kindle book reading app, which was designed to look like a book with text on the left and right. They could also be programmed to open new links or companion apps in the opposite screen you're looking at. For apps built with the second screen in mind, they can be designed to "span" across the two screens, meaning an email app could have your inbox on the left and opened messages on the right. Microsoft made a point of showing us that standard Android apps run on the device just fine, thanks to its two screens being the equivalent of two standard phone displays. Richard Peterson/CNET How well do apps run in the phone? We got to peer inside the Surface Duo, beneath the screens, to see how it works.
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