Microsoft Launches Surface Duo with PixelSense Screen

Microsoft’s unveiled the Surface Duo and it’ll be shipping on September 10th. Surface Duo will retail at $1,399, which is more expensive than many flagships including the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra ($1,299).

It has two 5.6-inch screens that combine into one larger 8.1-inch PixelSense Fusion display. It’s all held together by a revolutionary 360-degree hinge” that we’re praying keeps out debris a little better than Samsung’s first Galaxy Fold.

According to Microsoft, that’ll make it the thinnest mobile device on the market,” though of course it won’t be quite as sleek when it’s folded.

Sporting two single displays at 1800×1350 or a combined 2700×1800 single view, the AMOLED with 401 PPI keeps the legacy alive that Microsoft builds high-quality displays.

Surface Duo Smartphone

In addition an old Snapdragon 855, 6GB of RAM, 128 or 256 GB of storage, 3577 mAh dual battery, fast charging with the 18w included charger and a run time of 15.5hrs of local video playback. Keep in mind that battery life is likely optimistic if other Surface benchmarks indicate real-world performance we could be looking at sub-10 hrs of real-world usage.

But this isn’t a laptop that is used continuously and the company says the standby time is up to 10 days with up to 27hrs of talk time.

Later, Microsoft rolled out its new Family Safety app for iOS and Android users which makes parents will be able to monitor the time spent by the kids on devices and limit hours of play.

According to Microsoft , the app a measure of monitoring a child’s digital activity, the app will send an email to both the parents and the kids every week. The screen time, duration of apps used and the most visited websites will be strategically drawn up.

This new app will send an email request to your Microsoft account whenever your children are trying to purchase something from the Microsoft Store. Hence, you cannot be billed for any game or movie without your knowledge.

According to business standard, with the help of the Family Safety app, one can use web and search filters to block adult content and set browsing to kid-friendly websites with either allowed or blocked websites list.

This feature helps in maintaining healthy digital habits and works in a tight concert with the Microsoft Edge browser on Windows, Xbox, and Android.

Family Safety app

Later, Microsoft is collaborating with Google to help bring more progressive web apps to Android devices through the Play Store. PWABuilder is Microsoft’s developer tool that helps developers build PWAs and publish them in app stores. Bubblewrap is Google’s command line utility and library to generate and sign Google Play Store packages from Progressive Web Apps.

This gives creators more reasons to use Microsoft’s toolkit, while Google gets more developers who build Android-friendly web apps instead of pointing people to generic apps inside a browser.