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New microsoft surface duo 21/2/2024 Whereas the Surface Duo 2 is optimised for exactly none of these. ![]() The aforementioned imaginary employees were given the - also imaginary - Duo 2 by their imaginary company but all, repeat all of them will have also had their own private smartphone, typically an iPhone or Android device, which is optimised for social, music, media watching, and imaging. And up to £1590 for the half terabyte version! So… here we have Microsoft selling to individuals at starting at £1350 inc VAT. This is almost certainly because the enterprise vision, as I just laid out in my imagination, didn’t pan out for the original Duo, with sales non-existent. as you'd expect! The consumer shiftĮxcept that Microsoft clearly also now wants consumers, or at least enthusiasts, to buy the Duo 2. The default homescreen set-up, waiting for your app installs and customisations. The device - as per the first Duo - is a potential business productivity powerhouse. This then is Microsoft’s vision for the Surface Duo 2. If it helps employees stay in touch and work more productively. In which case, the purchase cost - again in bulk - of a Duo 2 is only around a third of the total and almost irrelevant. Though then there was lots of overhead in terms of IT dept set-up and configuration time, training, and ongoing support whenever something went wrong.Īs with most company devices, the actual cost, factoring in the overheads, is probably £2000 or £3000 by the end of a typical two year period. My - still - imaginary company will have paid around £1000 each ex VAT for each device, in bulk. The Surface Duo 2 is the perfect device for this sort of thing, short of everyone having to carry around a laptop everywhere they go. On the go, I’d be responding to email, checking in to what my fellow project members are up to, taking part in multi-person video calls, often doing two things at once, such as taking notes while chatting, juggling IMs and emails, that sort of thing. Every professional in the company has now been issued with this, a Surface Duo 2, with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, and Office all baked in, and all taking advantage in some wonderful way of the dual screen system. Imagine, if you will, working at a largish company, say 500 employees. So with that, please also see my unboxing and first impressions gallery for more close-up hardware photos. I'd have liked to be able to compare the two. Which is a slight shame, since the original Duo was perhaps a 'purer' implementation of the original concept, in that it didn't pander at all to consumer preferences (potato of a camera, rubbish speaker, no NFC for Google Pay, huge bezels, etc.), but did fold right round with no gaps and no protuberances. So, interestingly, the Duo 2 is my first hands-on with the form factor. Although it was available, months later, in the UK, the price was so high and the word had already gone out from USA reviews, that it didn't sell and Microsoft PR weren't sending out review loans. I should point out, before getting going, that I never even had hands-on with the original Surface Duo, which was very much a USA-only device. The text version does have twice the script length and a number of extras, mind you, for the enthusiast!) (This text review is based on my Phones Show video review, also embedded here in case you'd rather watch that. But is it for you? I attempt to answer that in my full review below. ![]() It has specs right up with flagships of today, a truly innovative form factor (as per the original concept), and is priced at an absolute premium. 2017’s Project Andromeda, four years on, has evolved through Surface Phone (unreleased), Surface Duo (2020, poorly received and very poorly selling), to the new Surface Duo 2.
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