Microsoft bangs smart phone market with with a new two screen cell phone

The technology company also introduced a new dual-screen laptop and integrated magnetic keyboard

The technology giant Microsoft presented two new products of the Surface range, Neo and Duo, in New York on Wednesday, which are characterized by having two screens joined by a hinge and fold as if they were books.

On the one hand, the company introduced the Neo laptop, with a Windows 10 X operating system, consisting of two 9-inch screens and an integrated magnetic keyboard.

However, the great surprise of Microsoft has been Duo, a smartphone that includes the Android system, the result of a collaboration with Google, and that constitutes the return of the US firm to the field of cell phones.

This design has two 5.6-inch screens and a hinge system that allows them to be rotated up to 360 degrees, which in practice translates into different arrangements and uses.

Thus, the double screen gives the possibility to run two different applications at the same time, each one on a different screen. In addition, these can be configured in landscape mode, so that one of the two can be used as a keyboard or as a control for games, for example.

At the hardware level, little data is still known. The device integrates the Snapdragon 855 processor, the most powerful of Qualcomm to date. Although it has no front camera, it does have a rear camera.

As for the operating system, the Surface Duo has a version of Android 9 Pie retouched to support the two screens of the device.

Microsoft announced that both devices will be released in late 2020, and launched the Surface Laptop 3; Surface Pro 7 and Surface Pro X hybrids, and Surface Earbuds wireless headphones, all available this year.

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