Surface Duo from early 2021 on sale also outside the US

Source: HW Upgrade added 16th Dec 2020

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Initially few nations will propose to interested consumers the first, and for now only, Microsoft smartphone belonging to the Surface family

of Paolo Corsini published on , at 10: 21 in the Telephony channel

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It has been on sale since last September but only in the United States: we’re talking about Microsoft Surface Duo , the first smartphone of the American company belonging to the Surface product family characterized by a structure like very original design.

It is in fact composed of two screens connected by a hinge , which fold over each other as if they were a book. The heart of this smartphone is the Google Android operating system , to which a deep integration with the services has been implemented developed by Microsoft.

With a post in its official blog, Microsoft has formalized the sale of Surface Duo also in other regions starting from the beginning of 2021. This product will be available in Canada, France, Germany and the UK but a specific date has not yet been announced for the debut on the market.

Easy to assume that this information could be released at the beginning 2021, perhaps in conjunction with the presentation of the new products of the Surface family. Microsoft is in fact called to launch the next generations of its mobile products, specifically Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop 4.

Let’s summarize the technical characteristics of Surface Duo: is equipped with two separate 5.6 inch AMOLED screens with resolution 1800 x 1350 pixe le aspect ratio 4: 3 . Microsoft calls them PixelSense Fusion. With both screens paired (opening at 360 degrees) a working area of ​​8 is formed, 1 inch (2700 x 1800 pixels) with 3: 2 aspect ratio. To protect the screens, Microsoft has adopted Gorilla Glass and includes a bumper in the package. When closed Surface Duo has dimensions of 145, 2 x 93, 3 x 9.9 mm, while from open it passes to 145, 2 x 186, 9 x 4.8 mm, for a weight of 250 grams.

Surface Duo integrates a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC 855 , 6 GB of RAM and storage up to 256 GB (the basic offer includes 128 GB). It supports LTE connectivity, but not 5G, just as it does not have NFC, while there is no lack of Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0. Two batteries on board, under the two screens, which overall guarantee a capacity of 3577 mAh which according to Microsoft is sufficient for 15, 5 hours of video recording, up to 10 standby days and up to 27 hours of calls.