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he Microsoft Surface popularized a new category: the 2-in-1 PC. Now
the company is hoping to do the same thing on a smaller scale with the
Surface Duo, a phone-tablet that tries to enable those multitasking,
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It’s ambitious, certainly, but it’s not entirely successful, with bugs and
ergonomic issues that sometimes make the Duo confusing and frustrating to
use. Though it costs even more, the $1,999 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 is a much
more successful example of a folding phone.A SHIMMERING NEW DESIGN
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were both failed attempts at something like this form factor. But those phones
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this dual-screen form.Microsoft Surface Duo:
Not Entirely Successful
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