As I wrote final September, the Microsoft Duo is a really completely different smartphone. I have a tendency to consider it now as extra of a smartbook. There have been a number of occasions I’ve tried to cease utilizing it and return to a extra widespread smartphone design solely to return again to the Duo as a result of I miss it a lot. This isn’t to say the cellphone is ideal, removed from it; however what it does nicely makes it onerous to surrender. I began utilizing it seven months in the past, and it has turn into the one system I now carry with me on a regular basis.
Let me clarify why that’s and the place I believe it would doubtless enhance in its subsequent iteration.
What’s to like?
If you wish to learn, spend loads of time on social media and watch movies occasionally, this factor is unimaginable. I’ve learn of a typical smartphone, however the expertise isn’t perfect, so I usually carried an Amazon Fire Tablet with me for studying and watching movies. When I began utilizing the Duo, I shortly realized the pill was redundant, and I now solely use it at night time, and the pill doesn’t journey with me.
Now the rationale to not have the pill is that it’s yet another factor to maintain monitor of and lose. My spouse, who makes use of an iPhone, nonetheless carries her Amazon fireplace, and simply the opposite day, a waitress chased us down as a result of she’d left it within the restaurant.
With watching motion pictures, you may have the film run on one display and do e mail on the opposite, or it sits properly on a desk for one display, or I’ve propped it on my steering wheel whereas I’m ready for my spouse and unfold the video over each screens. You have sufficient display dimension that you just don’t want to carry the factor as much as your face, and whereas my bigger pill is perhaps higher, that is adequate, so I don’t really feel I would like that pill with me.
Finally, there are so few Duo telephones on the market it tends to attract consideration, and people will come up and ask me what it’s and what it does. Women do that greater than males suggesting. Was I single? This system is perhaps a date magnet; since I’m not single, I can’t check this, but it surely does convey standing higher than any current smartphone (primarily as a result of they type of all look the identical lately).
What sucks, and what’s prone to get fastened
The most annoying factor is the digital camera sucks. It takes an OK image and has a flash, however the damned picture doesn’t switch to the suitable display, making it tough to make use of, it usually gained’t acknowledge QR codes, and there are loads of much better cameras on the market. I anticipate this to be a typical criticism, and I additionally anticipate this to be addressed within the subsequent model.
It is made from glass, which implies it’s essential set up the distinctive rubber bumpers, which are likely to peel off over time and are extremely costly (practically $50) to interchange. The glass makes it slippery to carry, it tends to fall out of pockets, and I’ve time flooring, which imply mine has a crack on the exterior case that annoys me. I hope the subsequent model could have a extra sturdy case that doesn’t require this problematic bumper resolution.
Finally, it isn’t 5G, although it had Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon resolution. 5G is a ton higher (the place it’s put in) for connectivity, and whereas I haven’t skilled information issues, cellphone points, notably with Wi-Fi calling, have been problematic. I’d disable the function, however I exploit AT&T, and I’m clearly on the fringe of protection the place I dwell, creating cellphone high quality issues. One factor 5G does much better than LTE is a efficiency on the edge, and I anticipate the subsequent model of this cellphone might be a 5G system.
Wrapping Up
There is a saying about prospects getting the arrows and settlers getting the land, which applies to those that love cutting-edge merchandise. There is at all times a rare variety of issues with a technology…
