
If you wonder why there was no NFC, a lousy camera, no 5G, an old CPU, well, there you go. The concept was later salvaged as it was "converted" to an Android phone in a last-minute Hail Mary. Buggy software, a high price, and severely lacking hardware made it nearly impossible to recommend except for the bold early adopters and risk-takers.īased on ideas from years earlier, the Duo 1 was meant to be a pocketable Surface that ran a version of Windows, not Android. A year later, that device hit store shelves with a thud.


In late 2019, Microsoft surprised the world with its grand idea for a modern pocketable computing experience with Surface Duo, a phone with two displays that resembled a digital diary.
