The Surface Duo can now be reserved in Spain: these are its specifications and the purchase price

It's been the never ending story. And it is that months and months have passed since the Surface Duo was presented until it hit the market, in very few countries. A launch from which Spain was excluded, at least until now, when Microsoft announced that the Surface Duo is coming to our country, although it will do so with a small handicap .

The new Microsoft phone comes with the not very complicated task of correcting everything that was done wrong with Windows Phone and for that it uses Android as the operating system.A phone that finally we know can be purchased in Spain, although for now only limited to the business market and educational environments.

Specifications and Features

In the official Microsoft publication, they report that the Surface Duo is coming to Spain aimed at business customers and those in the field of education, which clearly indicates how Microsoft is going back with these two market niches.

And it is not surprising, because with a double screen model we find ourselves before a terminal clearly dedicated to productivity that allows us to take advantage of multitasking with different applications on their screens and separately.

The Surface Duo is a mobile device with two 5.6-inch AMOLED displays and a hinge system that allows them to rotate up to 360 degrees, which in practice translates into different layouts and uses with the ability to run two different applications at the same time, each one on a screen. Fully unfolded, both panels offer an 8-inch diagonal display with a resolution of 2,700 x 1,800 pixels.

The problem is that we are talking about a device announced at the end of 2019, whose hardware has not changed. A mobile, which is what it basically is, with a Snapdragon 855 processor, the most powerful Qualcomm at that time but not now A SoC that comes with 6 GB of RAM and has models of 128 and 256 GB of UFS 3.0 storage.

The Surface Duo has a USB-C 3 connection.1 for 18W fast charging or video output. The battery is 4,500 mAh and supports wireless charging (15 W) and reverse (4.5 W). It also incorporates a camera with an 11-megapixel sensor and lens with f2.0 aperture, capable of recording in 4K.

	Surface Duo
Screen	Open: Dual Pixel Sense Fusion 8, 1” AMOLED, 2,700 x 1,800 px (3:2), 401 ppi Closed: Single Pixel Sense 5, 6", 1,800 x 1,350 px (4:3), 401 ppi 100% SRGB and 100% DCI-P3 Corning Gorilla Glass
Processor	Snapdragon 855
RAM	6 GB RAM
Storage	128/256 GB UFS 3.0
Camera	Dual 11 MP (1 µm), f/2.0, PDAF, 84° Zoom 7x HDR, portrait mode 4K and 1080p video @30 and 60@ with EIS, HDR, slow motion 1080p@120fps and 240fps
Connections	WiFi-5 802.11ac (2.4/5GHz), Bluetooth 5.0 LTE 4x4 MIMO, Cat.18 DL / Cat 5 UL, 5CA, LAA GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou, QZSS
Drums	3,577 mAh Wireless charging 15W Reverse charging 4, 5 W
OS Version	Android 10
Weight	250 grams
Dimensions	Open: 145.2 x 186.9 x 4.8mm Closed: 145.2 x 93.3 x 9.9mm
Others	Fingerprint reader, built in glass, USB 3.1, eSIM/nanoSIM, support for Surface Pen

It has a version of Android 10 tweaked to support the two screens of the device And with this conjunction, it's hard to compete with the high-end current. It is also compatible with the Tu Teléfono app that we already know and that allows access to all the contents from the PC (with Windows 10).

Price and availability

The Surface Duo arrives with a starting price of 1,549 euros, perhaps high for the hardware it offers and is already available at the usual distributors, soon to debut in the Microsoft Store, where it can be reserved now by contacting this email address.

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