![]() Even when the Duo was introduced back in October, it was introduced by a phone ringing, and unveiled when a woman took it out of her bag to answer it. I have no idea why, but I don't think the team realizes how stupid it sounds. Microsoft also doesn't come out and call this a smartphone. A better way to classify it would be to ask if the Surface Duo is in the same class of devices as other smartphones on the market. I like to think that the definition of the word 'phone' has simply evolved over the last decade or so. ![]() The argument against calling Microsoft's pocketable device a phone always seems to go along the lines that people don't make phone calls anymore, or that it does so much more than make phone calls. I think this started in the days when rumors first started for dual-screen pocketable devices, when people tried to pretend that rather than a phone, it's an ultra-mobile PC that just happens to have telephony capabilities. It's a phone, and a mid-range oneįor some reason, people like to pretend that this isn't a phone. ![]() Today, we found out that the Surface Duo starts at an incredible $1,399, which is $150 more than an iPhone 11 Pro Max with twice as much storage. Even the people that tried to aim high couldn't hit the mark.
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