you know me i'm a bit of a quirky boy i'm a quirky boy
i like when like device manufacturers are like you know we're not gonna make a
normal phone we're gonna get kooky with it we're gonna get wacky the surface duo
one really kind of scratched that itch for me which is interesting because as a
online person i like to cover those kind of weird kooky things would i buy them
do i shop for them no unlike jono
pre-orders every shiny new thing that pops up in a in a tweet i'm more like
i'll i'll just you know i'll just i'll just wait for the reviews and stuff but
i don't have to wait for the reviews we have the surface duo here and i get to
unbox it let's take a look oh it's beautiful the paper they chose
sustainably sourced probably i don't know it's probably not i don't know it's
got some heft to it i do have the surface duo one here so we're gonna do
some comparisons uh but oh wow look at that i mean right off the bat i remember
that the first phone did not have a giant camera
bump like this oh i ripped it
oh you're supposed to open it this is the weirdest unwrapping
situation ever interesting
you should not bring me on for these i like the texture on it look at that the
older one i don't think it had or there's a dbrand skin
of course what else is in the box this is probably just documentation and a sim
card removal tool and do i need to know any of this
no power adapter everyone's doing it save the planet
copy apple you know microsoft's taking another
uh gander at this and they look very
similar although the most obvious difference looking at them here is the
curved screen this is a flat screen on the first surface duo and on this one
you can see that the inside of the screen
like the screen curves into the inside a little bit into
the hinge so that when you close it
you can see a little bit of the screen and apparently there will be
notifications there so on the top we got nothing on the side we have a very
similar setup except we have
this fingerprint sensor that's separate from the power button in the volume
rocker on the surface duo 2 i think that the fingerprint sensor is integrated
into the power button volume rocker and the sim card slot is now on the bottom
of the device next to the centered usb-c
port which i believe is a faster port as well that's exciting isn't it jono
dang it jono what are you are you pre-ordering something get it out of the
cart get it out of there so the other obvious difference with
these two devices is the camera so on the first one we had a single i think
right yeah a single camera on the inside and their reasoning here was that like
okay it's a selfie camera because you know it's like a regular phone here and
you're using like a selfie camera but then if you want a rear camera you just flip it over it's still a phone from
that side too and now it's a rear camera i got you and people complained a little
bit about that i mean the five people who bought the phone
i forget how much it started at but it was like fifteen hundred dollars sixteen hundred
dollars something and then by the end they were still in it by like for like five hundred but on the surface duo two
not only do we have more than one camera we have three cameras on the back and
then also a single camera on the inside once more
we got 400 more cameras
so yeah there's a lot of stuff to be excited about with the new device
although how much does it retail for it starts at 1500 again wow the confidence
this is basically two like wide phones strapped together which
is not like a super new thing in the industry lg has their has their two
phone system thing there's the galaxy fold obviously that's a single screen
but it's just wacky all right i'm gonna turn it on now jono is that okay with
you no no we'll just we'll just stay in this
space and just reflect on what brought us here so we're gonna
take a look at the actual software the device
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so the software is one of the big reasons people were kind of disappointed
by the surface duo one they did not do enough to
smooth out the experience they had some cool like multitasking and multi-window
features but it didn't take the cake it didn't cut the cheese
slice the omelet uh one thing really annoying off the bat
though is that there's no double tap to wake and maybe that setting is disabled
but like that's a pretty standard feature on like every phone nowadays
right okay
starting up the shield that was a little slow but
what are you gonna do snapdragon 888 a big upgrade over the snapdragon 855
in the surface duo one when this released around a year ago it was
already late it was it was already old everyone was running snapdragon 888
already put a google tensor in there whoosh every freaking Android
manufacturer has to have their own slide over thing is this bing you tricked me
microsoft it is 1350 by 1800 on the old
one and 1344 by 1892 on this one that means that this
has a four by three aspect ratio and this has a 13 by nine so the fact that
the aspect ratios are slightly different but the resolution is slightly different points to the fact that they have the
same ppi so these are basically the same screens they haven't like per pixels per
inch pixels per square inch but this one also has a 90 hertz refresh
rate as opposed to 60 on the older one 800 nits HDR 100 srgb
dci p3 corning gorilla glass invictus
which is the new thing they stopped numbering it 5.8 inch amoled here 5.6
inch on the older one eight gigs of RAM versus the six gigs on this one
and one more store they have a 512 gig storage option this time around a little
bit bigger battery and the the three cameras as we talked about they really
are trying to impress you this time around i think with this one they were
kind of like it's all about the form factor look
well it's wacky so this is microsoft's launcher it's
been a little while since i took a look at microsoft's Android launcher
obviously about a year i'd say swipe down to do something
swipe down from you told me to swipe okay this is the
same thing i remember this oh okay you can switch between web search and apps
and web search i'm assuming uses bang of course what is it doing
here look at this you seen that the keyboard's over to the side oh no
it's happening again it's happening i don't know why they would do that this
is Android 11 by the way if you couldn't tell i think it's supposed to be it's not
Android 12 yet but it probably will get an update the surface 201 is supposed to
get an Android 11 update and it launched with 10 so this is weird this is 90
hertz this is supposed to be a 90 hertz display tom green drew barrymore it
thought i would want to see that for some reason yeah oh i can check my scalp
from here
you know what i'm coming up with it's sometimes it doesn't recognize your
gesture i i want to go home you know what i'm saying
like look at that i just tried to swipe up and i thought i was starting to type
something go home go away
you're free get out of here
i'm having a stroke so the big thing you want to do with a dual screen phone run
two apps at the same time i i hear that they made this a little easier
what am i looking at jono scan and solve oh
this phone lets you cheat on your homework oh there's the multitasking oh tabs what
is this app is this a browser from the multitasking menu you can
either okay i want to i want this app to be just on this screen or i want it to
be just on this screen or i kind of want to bring it in the middle and span both
screens so that's kind of cool select news article or video no that's politics
uh oh my gosh stop
are my kidneys going to explode because i'm addicted to coffee
let me know microsoft okay so this is cool we're in one app i'm scrolling two
different feeds in the same app that's pretty cool
apparently there's like a drag and drop situation where you can like drag a file
in i wanna see that okay so here's what here's what we're gonna do let's take a photo and then i'm
going to send you the photo in teams the preview looks pretty good
what about how do i see so this is interesting they got the nice
new cameras on the back if you want to see these nice new cameras you have to
hold it like this it's just kind of it's
there's some things to get used to which i like i like weird things
whoa look at this cool bokeh
do something crazy
that was so lame
okay that's that's a nice that's a nice ultra wide on there
oh man i can get cinematic with it john watch this
that's definitely not the smoothest it could be now we're going to add that to
our realtor listing for this for this house you know they got slow-mo they got
photo jonno look at me edge
one note one shortcut that opens
what that was supposed to open it up on one on each on on each screen i'm pretty
sure all right so i i wasn't signed into edge so it freaked out okay so now i'm signed
in if i press this now it should open up yeah okay so we're back into the
workspace so if you often you know watch a youtube video and
like take notes on the other side there's a way to save that as a
workspace and add it as a shortcut to your home screen i don't know how to do
that but apparently you can do it because i just did it so that's kind of cool let's get back to what we're doing
so i'm going to go to photos i'm going to take the photo of you
and i'm going to drag no it won't do that in the photos app do i
need to go to like the files app or something
can i drag that what can i drag microsoft i just want to
drag something what so there's no drag and drop
they lied to me has this been updated
okay interesting so they didn't enable
this sort of drag and drop file thing across the board it's only between
microsoft apps wow that was a lot of spit you see that
okay no i'm in i'm in one drive
this is just a shortcut to the onedrive app we got two app shortcuts right here that
go to the same app throw this in the garbage
i was so excited i was i was so excited to check out this
this phone john oh
i don't know how much longer i want to like illustrate the point that uh
microsoft's ui on Android their flavor of Android is still half baked how do i
go to the home screen disappointed oh yeah yeah all right a
closed one drive reopen one drive i should be signed in i'm signed in now
microsoft okay honestly it's borderline unusable when i'm trying to be quick
with something like if i if i want to pay attention and i'm like okay i'm
bringing up the multitasking menu and then i'm scrolling around and then i
don't want that anymore and i flick it but if you're trying to do anything fast
it doesn't it doesn't do what you want to do i'm trying to bring out multitasking
hello pro brave what if i dual screen it
this is breaking my brain a little bit but it's it's more intuitive than i thought so
that's a super weird speaker setup there's one here and one here and i
guess they're like that's stereo speakers would you ever watch a video like this
so obviously youtube is not optimized for uh the dual screen experience yet i
think like google wants to release their own
optimizations for Android uh that'll make it better for foldables max volume
but now i'm not in
stereo it's not the worst uh smartphone speaker experience i've ever had in my
life but uh yeah it's not great look at
it it it it doesn't go flush because they added this huge camera bump now
that's a lot less satisfying than the old surface duo one that goes completely
flush microsoft it's all like the same problems
okay iphone 13 max volume uh comparison
way better
yeah this is just obviously way better it doesn't make this like absolutely
horrible it's fine it's fine right i wanted to see the notification
doohickeys on the inside here so i'm ready for the notification
i don't see i don't see anything service dual features glance bar okay
will it not do teams uh
why would they not have teams let's say i go to teams i check the notifications
i'm just gonna have it like this because i feel like maybe maybe the
lights were too bright i couldn't see it i got nothing man i was really hyped i
mean i knew that it wasn't gonna be like revolutionary that i i'd seen the
reviews people were like obviously it's a lot better they improved a ton of
stuff on this one but it suffers from basically the exact same issues that the
first one did they fixed the chip they fixed some of the hardware
but what is the point of having really cool hardware when your software still
sucks ass microsoft
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