LAHORE MIRROR (Monitoring Desk)– Microsoft’s $1,500 Surface Duo 2, the company’s second folding phone, launches Thursday. I’ve been using it for about a week and it’s a huge improvement over the first model Microsoft launched last year, which was too buggy and underpowered.
Microsoft doesn’t make a lot of money off of hardware, and it has a poor track record with phones. While the Windows Mobile operating system was popular before the iPhone launched in 2007, the company’s hardware has never caught on with consumers the way iPhones or Samsung phones have. The Surface Duo 2 probably won’t change that narrative, since its design and price will only attract a niche audience. Microsoft likely won’t sell a ton of these.
But the Surface Duo 2 offers something unique that you don’t get with any other phone on the market. It has two screens that can run different apps side by side.
SOURCE: CNBC
