Microsoftfoldable smartphoneLast featured Nov 2021
Microsoft Surface Duo
Worth it if…Worth it, with caveats.
Sky-high price and too many compromises, with an old chipset and a poor camera; rated 4/10 fail.
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- Price when I covered it
- 1400
- Featured in
- 3 videos · 2020–2021
- Category
- Phones · Foldables
What I liked
- Nice looking
- Sleek, thin design
- One of the best hinges he has seen
- sturdy and slim
- flexible orientations
What I didn't
- Far too many compromises
- Not great software experience
- Snapdragon 855 with 6GB RAM
- one of the worst speakers
- possibly the worst camera
- plastic frame cracking
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“nice looking but far too many compromises to recommend it”
“the surface Duo had some really nice Hardware it had this super Sleek Thin Beautiful design one of the best hinges I've ever seen”
“the second you turn it on you encounter a not great software experience”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
6:49The BEST Smartphones of 2021 🔥Nice looking but with far too many compromises to recommend.
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4:56How Tech Companies Manipulate the Media ft. MKBHDLovely hardware with a great hinge, but the software was poor, and the hardware-only embargo hid that from first impressions.
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2:4515 Smartphone FAILS to ruin your day 😂Sky-high price and too many compromises, with an old chipset and a poor camera; rated 4/10 fail.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Premium tax
“for a 1400 phone that's built to do at least two different tasks at the same time you're gonna feel it”
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