man remember Windows phone did you ever have
one no no no did you ever want one
not really no no one did no one ever wanted a Windows phone
to say that Windows microsoft doesn't have the greatest
track record with phones is an understatement
i think this is their fifth attempt at
making a phone and making some sort of
mobile productivity device the most recent one
was probably a nokia thing
this is uh probably the one that i'm most excited for
in terms of well microsoft devices at the very least
because it's microsoft's first Android phone
it says surface duo you'd be forgiven for thinking this is some sort of
accessory for their pcs but look on the back Android
you got that Android says Android on the
back this is an Android phone let's check it out
why am i always the one to unbox this is the second
device that we've gotten from dbrand that has some insane wrap on it
um wow that's amazing
and that's the phone thanks for watching guys
um this thing is freaking
thin or it feels really thin it's a really smooth feeling hinge hey
hey do you guys feel that um this
is a device that really makes you want to play with it oh that's satisfying too
right and you'll notice i have the surface pen here because apparently
it works with it and it can like magnetically attach to the outside
okay so i guess it stays there but like what are you supposed to put that in
your pocket come on
mustache okay that's enough fooling around my initial impressions of the device are
very nice feels good in the hand very thin what do
you what do you get with your uh fourteen hundred dollars that you pay
for this thing that's right surface pro service to a bumper
specially designed to protect your
device
what am i looking at here it shows you to see how to attach the bumper check
out the video i'm not i'm not going to a website to
find out how to it
without actually putting on the adhesive that's kind of what it ends up looking
like it's like
oh no it's turning on jono it's turning on i didn't mean to i didn't mean
to i know i know you want me to
say hello but not yet okay
we got also in the box a wall wart
a black wall wart and over here we got
papers do i look at the papers okay sim
removal tool okay without even opening it it probably just says congratulations you just got
the the future in in uh phones get get
stoked bro with love microsoft
and another black uh usb-c cable
very cool standard phone
packaging type stuff okay let's turn it on
this is the power button oh there it is okay so it's already on hello
hi there let's get started instead of your service do oh man
should we have done this before scan qr code
the there's only one camera and it's on the front hi Linus can i see it
can you see what look at this look at look at yourself in there
oh look at the back that's the most important part oh very funny
brand sorry am i ruining your reaction
trying to social distance while you do this they really do hinge
as well don't they that's what i was saying it's really
smooth to open yeah that sound oh yeah snapping
oh i know okay i'm sorry i'll let you do your job there's only one
camera on the device so i guess that doesn't mean that
you you can't take photos like this and you can't take photos when it's closed
you have to have it in this mode
and anyways that's interesting your phone needs to download and update and
restart it's installing a system update which
screen do i listen to this is i'm pressing next
nothing happened it it loaded for a second and it came right back so i guess
that's the answer to that question
oh it's insta it's restarting see that's it that's that's a cool shot right there
you know i think it's beautiful that that microsoft who is like responsible
for their own operating system can just be like you know what Windows phone
didn't really work out we're doing Android checking for updates again
sign in with your google should i sign in or no skip skip for now
sign in with microsoft geez louise
okay so this is interesting because it's a microsoft device it's a surface device
normally with a Windows device you sign in with your microsoft account
but on an Android device you sign in with your google account but this one
asks you to sign into both because there's kind of two competing ecosystems
here wait what did i just did i just accept something um
protect your surface duo i'm not i don't need protection
oh there's a fingerprint reader okay there's a fingerprint reader on the side
go to your home screen swipe up swipe up
quickly from the bottom okay oh okay this is basically just
telling you about Android gestures check out tips anytime i will thanks
what was that sound okay here we wait what where's the
notification okay so there's a notification screen but when i
swipe down from the google
okay so it's very clear right off the
bat that you know this is not your average Android phone
it's two screens they're super wide
it's not like you know this is a regular phone for comparison
look at how wide that is some of the gestures are supposed
to be the same okay so there's the google app
but hello so okay let's open photos
let's open news you've got these apps along the bottom you've got a dock
like you do on Android normally but when you swipe up on one side to go into
multitasking all the icons go to the other side so
then at any time you can still access your entire dock that's pretty cool and the
multitasking menu is vertical instead of horizontal a lot of things
are different here it's okay we're going to be all right what is this is this bing shut up
is this bing right now
that's hilarious a regular swipe down on
any home screen brings up a bing
search i hope that there's a way to customize that gesture
because that's really annoying first
off the thing that's really interesting to me about this
is the fact that it can do this it's like a little laptop
so i'm gonna see what the typing experience is like in this mode
notes here we go okay okay let's see what happens
so turn it
this way okay look at that
i got a little laptop hello
fellow co-workers
oh no co-workers
hello flow co-workers oh no this is guys
i'm disappointed so oh and it's it's gone all right so far productivity
isn't looking great in vertical mode okay so i could just do
this and i think i read that when you do this
the other screen is automatically disabled so it says double tap to switch screens
so i'm over here i'm using this one and i flip it over it's like oh you want to
use this double tap now you're using it on this side but where's the the app didn't come with it
okay that's weird
ah look these things aren't bad
okay these are just like things that you have to get used to and i think that's
part of the deal with the surface duo in general
because obviously it's not a regular Android phone if you get this thing
there's to be a bit of a learning curve there's going to be a period where you have to accustom yourself
to using a dual screen Android phone okay i'm in settings
i'm in settings and i'm going to keep the notes open on this side so i can
keep working as i'm scrolling through
settings what
that's weird did you see that
i'm you can't type and
scroll it it only takes one input
that's i'm against that
is that not dumb or am i being dramatic
you can't do two things at once would you do two things
maybe there's two screens why not
okay whatever system updated Android 10.
it's only running Android 10. now i don't blame them for that because this
thing is actually also running a last-gen processor it's running a snapdragon 855.
there's six gigs of RAM i think you can get 128 or 256 gigs of storage if you
want interestingly i know that the battery is a 3755
milliamp hour i think it's like 3700 but apparently they've done a really good
job with battery optimization splitting the cell in two so part of
this batteries over here part of the batteries over here and uh apparently it's lasting all day
we don't have all day to test that because this is ShortCircuit
jono this is kind of interesting normally with the phone you know you can
only see one of your home screens at once but as you swipe through you kind of have access to two
at any one time am i just like am i expecting too much of this device it's not responding
how do i get to the app drawer just checking for cortana i don't see cortana
anywhere there's no cortana oh that's the other thing i wanted to try
a conference call also i can't do it because i have to sign into teams jono
never mind i don't want to sign into teams on this
thing i can't is it frozen
froze dude
the screen just froze and i had to like rotate it in order to wake it up
so i think i guess i was right about having two full sets of like
productivity apps we have all of the google apps i think and all of the microsoft apps
that gives you options i guess
i'm trying to look in the bright side here it's not bloatware it's options
what's that you'd like some tech news okay
viewing full screen to exit swipe down from the top gotcha right okay
oh stop
speakers aren't
added the bad after the game's launch
who thought they had there's a lot of bass there the privilege of not being
advertised we also which i didn't mention there's a
single usb-c port on the bottom and a volume rocker and a power bar
fingerprint rear okay there's the there's the ports for you
i mean overall i think this concept is really cool
um i like the idea of having a two screen device
but there are a few things in this iteration that just make it kind of
confusing as a device that launched in 2020 the snapdragon 855 the
giant bezels only six gigs of RAM for something with
two screens i mean i is that a reason why i'm experiencing
some of the performance uh hang ups that i that i am maybe
what else was i going to say oh they talked about camera quality
camera quality that's a whole nother thing we haven't even touched yet
welcome to your camera let's get started with some quick tips
this is this is a selfie mode and instead of like pressing a button to switch
to rear camera mode you just do this
and hopefully it it understands that that's what you did
wow the video is like completely vertical what's up
guys we having we have so much fun over
here i heard a lot of bad things about the camera but this doesn't look horrible
photo
oh wow that was really slow
i'm viewing this thing primarily as like a productivity device so i'm not looking
for like the phone uh the camera to be like super amazing
like the one thing that's really annoying me so far is the bugs it's the bugs that
they got to fix those i can't help but notice that it takes a
good second when you when you switch orientations
for it to like react to that which is weird because this device has
dual accelerometers gyroscopes and a bunch of
other sensors that it uses to to do that like they have one in each side
so very clearly a first-generation
device as evidenced by the specs by kind of the inconsistencies
and bugs in the ui design but feeling the the thing
is glorious it's so thin it's so
light does it fit in the pocket
it does i think it it even though it's so wide i mean it depends on the pocket
that you have i would definitely carry this around if it wasn't fourteen hundred dollars
i think this pen might not actually be charged so we might not be
able to use it can you not draw in in the notes app on
office dang it dude i want to draw something anyways we can see that the
pen is working the pen is something that we'll have to look at in the in the full review
but i imagine that it works because they say that it works and everything
i believe what i believe what they say
all right conclusions i think this is a really promising device
i can't wait for gen 2 in the meantime
i'm more than happy to play around with gen one even if it does have a few bugs
and a horrible horrible skin on it
just kidding it's great i love it thanks d brand
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