Being able to open this app across both screens was like having a little notebook with infinite paper – even if we had to supply our own Surface Pen. The absolute best example, though, is OneNote.
Now, you'll have one display showing a list of your emails, while the other display will have the email you're currently reading open. Sure, you can run your web browser and your email side-by-side, but when you open Outlook across both screens simply by swiping up from the bottom of the display and sliding, then holding the app over the middle of the device, the view changes.
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Microsoft preloaded the Surface Duo with the full Office Suite, and once you dive into these apps, the utility of the second screen becomes abundantly clear. However, that's where Microsoft's own library of apps comes in. Then again, if you just want a giant screen to watch media on, you’re probably looking at the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2.
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But, even though the gap between the two displays is small, it's still there, and is definitely not ideal for watching a movie or something. The only use that immediately springs to mind for expanding an app across both displays is for media consumption. When the device is open, you can have two full apps running side by side, or you can even extend apps across both screens – though that has limited utility. The whole crux of the Surface Duo is the dual-screen functionality, to the point where if that's not something absolutely necessary for you, there's not much reason to pick this thing up. We just hope that the design philosophy Microsoft followed with this device gets echoed throughout the lineup, that Surface Book 3 is looking rather ancient by comparison. But, with the Surface Duo, Microsoft has topped itself, creating the most beautiful Surface Device we've ever used. With its Surface line of laptops and desktops, especially over the last few years, Microsoft has proved itself a master of design, creating computing devices that go right up against MacBooks.
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This is helpful, as there isn't an outside-facing display, but you can't actually see if you have notifications in this view, so it's basically only good for checking the time.Īnd through all of this moving the phone around, there is only one marking on the back of the phone – a perfectly centered, perfectly square Windows logo on the back, which will look right no matter what angle or direction you're holding the phone. You can also just barely open the device to get a peek at the time. However, as we'll go into later, the Surface Duo isn't exactly great at either of these things, so we find that we rarely use the Surface Duo as a single-screen device. Or, you can rotate the device all the way to serve as a single-screen device, which will let you talk on the phone or snap pictures. Then, we turn it horizontally, which will allow the second screen to serve as a full-screen keyboard when we want to quickly respond to a work email without getting up from the awkward position we've taken up on the couch. We'll have it open like a book when we're browsing Twitter and Instagram at the same time. We are constantly finding ourselves shifting the orientation of the device depending on the task we're actually performing. This all makes using the Surface Duo in any orientation feel incredibly natural. On the right side of the device, you'll find a USB-C charger, a lock button, the volume rocker and a fingerprint sensor – but beyond that the two sides of this device are the same thickness, with the displays being the same resolution and size, too. The Surface Duo is also incredibly symmetrical.
We have definitely been finding ourselves just opening and closing the device over and over again because it feels so good. Instead, the hinge has been fine-tuned for both longevity and comfort, making the device feel incredibly rigid without looking like it. Even when we're walking and texting on the Surface Duo, the screen doesn't even begin to wobble, something we were definitely afraid of when we first saw the device all the way back in October 2019 when Microsoft announced it.
Microsoft somehow found a way to make a hinged device feel incredibly solid without being cumbersome to actually move.
And while the aesthetic is certainly enthralling, it doesn't even compare to how the device feels to open and close. The two displays are connected with these tiny, but beautiful, hinges, with a minimal gap between the two. The dual-screen device has an all-glass chassis – even though it doesn't support wireless charging. If we were going to use one word to describe the Surface Duo design it would be 'sexy'.
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