Microsoft Surface Duo, the company's first dual-screen Android smartphone, is finally releasing on September 10 - months after being teased online. Alongside getting a concrete release date, the anticipated phone by the company also received an official price tag. The Surface Duo was announced in October last year, along with Surface Neo dual-screen tablet, Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, and the Surface Pro X. It comes with a 360-degree hinge and features two separate OLED displays.
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Microsoft Surface Duo price and full specs in United Kingdom
Pricing and availability
The Surface Duo will be available for pre-order starting today in the US. The device will cost $1,399 for the base 128GB/6GB model. It will also be available in a 256GB/6GB variant. You can pre-order it from the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, or AT&T. The smartphone will be available for purchase in the US starting September 10. It only comes in one color, Glacier. It will come in an unlocked version and also a locked AT&T model. The unlocked model has eSIM. Details about the global launch of the Surface Duo aren't revealed yet.
The Microsoft Surface Duo has two 5.6-inch OLED (1,350x1,800 pixels) displays with 4:3 aspect ratio that join together to provide an 8.1-inch PixelSense Fusion display with 2,700 x 1,800 pixels resolution and 3:2 aspect ratio. The smartphone also offers an 11-megapixel camera sensor with an f/2.0 lens at the front. This means that the camera can be used for capturing selfies as well as video calls. Under the hood, the Surface Duo is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC, paired with 6GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. There are also two batteries, with an overall capacity of 3,577mAh. The Surface Duo lacks 5G support. Instead, it will have 4G LTE. A dedicated stylus pen has been developed by Microsoft that can be used for drawing and keeping handwritten notes on the phone. Furthermore, Microsoft Surface Duo is claimed to come with enterprise-level security based on Microsoft's in-house Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).