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choices here, most notably the camera. The Duo’s use of
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processor is fast enough, and the 4G performance is
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lousy software are miles behind any other handheld
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it for videoconferencing, but a handheld device is the
camera you always have on you. Both you and the
Surface Duo deserve better.
I wish the Duo had come out a year ago, when it would
have been on par with a group of experimental, failed
folding phones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the
Huawei Mate Xs. Now, Microsoft is a year behind
Samsung, which has the excellent Galaxy Z Fold 2. The
Duo 2 can’t come soon enough.
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The single
11-megapixel
camera and its
lousy software
are miles
behind any
other handheld
device and even
behind iPads.