THE MULTITASKING PHONE
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around multitasking. I write articles while referring to spec sheets. My wife, a
teacher, does Zoom classes while looking at reference material. My daughter, an
artist, draws while texting her friends. But none of the major mobile operating
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can split into virtual windows, but they use systems of unintuitive and often
buggy gestures that lead relatively few people to use them, outside of product
demos.
The Duo makes the virtual physical, with its two screens. It’s obvious, from the
actual form of the device, how to open an app on each screen, and even the
drag-and-drop or drag-and-span gestures of moving apps around is much more
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together, and I think it’s a physical thing.
Bear with me here. When you’re operating multiple windows on a PC, moving
between them involves a twitch of the wrist, at most. But because you’re holding
the Duo with both hands, and it’s a little large, there’s a lot of thumb stretching
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screens. Maybe this is just about reprogramming my muscle memory, but I kept
falling back to my laptop to do complicated work.
Microsoft Office is
ideal to use with
both screens.