by tabs_masterrace on 8/12/20, 12:27 PM
Kinda like it. Looks like a Nintendo DS to me :)
Could be a productivity power house in a nice compact form factor. I'm not the guy that checks his phone every 15 mins. but when I"m on a train for a bit, something like this would be amazing. My question would be if it houses the stylus somewhere? Wouldn't want to carry that around separately.
Price is pretty steep, but about the same as an iPhone 11 Pro Max with storage option, still one hell of a luxury purchase, not sure how reasonable this will be these days. Has to be top build quality and pretty much flawless though.
by mcintyre1994 on 8/12/20, 11:23 AM
by michaelcampbell on 8/12/20, 11:16 AM
I love the looks of this phone and I think I could make use of the features, but I'm not $1400-curious. I guess I'm cheap, but I'll be fine with a Pixel 4a at $350.
by swiley on 8/12/20, 11:45 AM
Another expensive android?
Why don’t they just sell a phone with desktop windows on it? That could actually compete.
by brudgers on 8/12/20, 1:26 PM
by tedk-42 on 8/12/20, 12:14 PM
Wow the pricing is ridiculous. It's using last year's flagship CPU and has two screens with a hinge. Be interesting to see how it sells but I'm not convinced it's a good buy.
by Feolkin on 8/12/20, 1:33 PM
Man, I'd love to get this but that price is steep. I just hate how small smartphone displays are in general and how constrained multitasking is. Say I'm chatting with somebody and I nerd a source for something I'm arguing. I need to switch from the chat app, browse for a while, copy, switch, paste, keep typing. And if I need more than one, that's a whole lot of switching back and forth which is fairly slow and tedious and breaks the context I'm in every single time. Doesn't just go for chatting. Sometimes I'm writing something and need a reference. Switching back and forth every couple of seconds is unbearable. If I can get away with it, I'd rather pull out my tablet, but I also don't always have it with me.
by pavlov on 8/12/20, 11:44 AM
The physical size is close to the much-loved 1990s PDA, Psion Series 5:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5Of course this device is dual touchscreen, so it doesn’t have the tactile keyboard that made the Psion so popular with writers on the road.
Still, it’s interesting to see a big tech company make another attempt at the “pocket laptop” form factor.
by dennisnedry on 8/12/20, 11:53 AM
Just curious, is a user supposed to put the device up to their ear to make a phone call? Or is the expectation to use a bluetooth headset?
by pjc50 on 8/12/20, 12:04 PM
So .. is this the first Microsoft Android phone? Or is it something weird that happens to run Android apps?
by emodendroket on 8/12/20, 12:29 PM
LG makes one like this already, the G8X.
by ilmiont on 8/13/20, 7:47 AM
Pathetic. I’ve never once thought “oh I know what this phone needs, a second screen, that forces me to ‘open’ it and makes one handed use impossible.”
I should add I’ve nothing against Microsoft and used Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile until the end of 2018. But dual screen devices are dead in the water I think.
by Aardwolf on 8/12/20, 11:21 AM
Has anyone ever released a two-sided phone, with a screen on each side (so the opposite idea of one that closes like this, no hinges)? Bonus points if they're two independent phones but sharing the same battery, e.g. for company phone and personal phone
by AnonHP on 8/12/20, 1:00 PM
I love the concept and how things flow between the two screens, but it looks really weird when held to the ear for a call. I don’t like large screens and this one just seems too large to be called a “phone”...”phablet” seems a more appropriate term.
by maxbaines on 8/12/20, 11:32 AM
Much like the new IMac 27" look at those bezels. Compare it to the Surface Pro X, it looks like its from the 2000's
by bluedino on 8/12/20, 11:46 AM
A single camera seems like a drawback.
by homero on 8/12/20, 11:43 AM
Looks useful for Office work on the go but the price is steep.
by dade_ on 8/12/20, 11:54 AM
The Samsung Fold and Huawei Mate X makes this thing an anachronism. It reminds me of a BlackBerry Playbook vs an iPad. How embarrassing.
by whalesalad on 8/12/20, 11:45 AM
They’ll sell dozens!
by rwc on 8/12/20, 11:57 AM
"Microsoft is also using algorithms to predict how to open apps on different displays. 'There is an algorithm in there that’s very smart and trying to be predictive,' explains Panay. “If you’re on one screen and you’re invoking a link, it will fill the other screen."
That's if/then statements. You invented if/then statements.
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