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Microsoft Surface Duo

Crazy to think it's been almost half a year since Microsoft unveiled the Surface Duo and Surface Neo dual-screen machines. Even now, a good part of their final design remains a mystery, but there is at least a glimpse of the novelty. Only the photo shown below can be found with your hands on.

During the holiday season of 2020, the product is coming, so we're waiting for a long time. The Surface Duo was spotted on the SkyTrain in Vancouver, so someone in Canada is taking it for a spin. Now there's a front flash that wasn't present at the October Surface event on the prototype. There is a single front camera on the 2019 unit, as opposed to zero cameras. A few millimeters have been removed, so now the unit is thinner than the prototype.

We don't have a clear back picture, so we don't know if there's a camera in the back or not. My guess is that there's at least one in there. Even at this point in the design, the top bezel is pretty big in my book, and the hinge looks clumsy. I feel that Microsoft has decided to abandon the idea of a true foldable, and that it wants to keep the two screens separate, rather than complicate things with folds and creases. Now it seems that Zac Bowden of Windows Central has good authority to make the Surface Duo appear earlier than December 2020, perhaps a few months earlier.