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ProBeat: Microsoft's Surface Duo is dead on arrival, regardless of price
Microsoft this week pulled back the curtain on the Surface Duo's price and availability: 128GB for $1,400 and 256GB for $1,500, both shipping on September 10. Too bad the dual-screen Android device is dead on arrival.
The price tag is tough to swallow, especially during a pandemic. After all, 2020 is seeing a resurgence in good, cheap phones. Most notably, Apple launched a $399 iPhone SE, to which Google responded with a $349 Pixel 4a. But if you are interested in a folding phone, a grand and a half is not going to be the deal breaker, especially given the starting prices of this year's Galaxy Z Flip ($1,380), Galazy Z Flip 5G ($1,450), Motorola Razr ($1,500), and Huawei Mate Xs (€2,499). The real problem is what you get, or rather don't get, for the price.
See also: Duo-take: Here's what the media is saying about Surface Duo
Previously: Microsoft Demonstrates Dual-Screen Device Running Android Apps, Announces Windows 10X
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @07:40PM
Not for nothing, but the stock market is right now near all time highs.
However, the stock market isn't the economy, regardless of how many times the media or the president will try to pretend like it is, and the economy surely isn't doing nearly as well.