The Surface Duo: A Rare Item I've Been Able to Try Before

I'm excited to unbox an item that I single-handedly saved from the clutches of Ken, who almost wrecked it. As someone who's been following the tech industry for a while, I've had the chance to try out some devices before they're even released to the public. And in this case, I was able to get my hands on the Surface Duo just a few weeks ago.

One of the first things you'll notice about the Surface Duo is its larger camera bump, AKA, its real set of cameras. Unlike the original Duo and the Duo 2, which only had a front-facing camera that could be flipped around, this new model has a proper triple camera setup. The camera bump is angled, so it's not going to scratch the back of the phone. And while there is a bump, it's actually thought about - it's designed to provide depth for a large camera and sensor.

The camera itself is impressive, with an ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto lens. But what I think is most exciting about the Surface Duo is its design. The original Duo and Duo 2 are incredibly thin, which makes sense given their single-screen design. However, the Surface Duo has a dual screen nature, so we need additional software support to make it work seamlessly. And that's exactly what Microsoft has done.

The Surface Duo comes with a range of impressive specs, including a Snapdragon 888 processor, 5G connectivity, NFC, and a giant battery. But what really sets it apart is its two large displays, which are now curved on the inside. This means that as you look and scroll between them, not only does it feel nice with your finger, but also it's very seamless.

I've been playing around with the Surface Duo for 20 minutes, and I have to say, I'm impressed. The camera is amazing, the display is beautiful, and the overall design feels premium. And because of its unique dual-screen nature, you'll need a lot of additional software support - which Microsoft has already started to deliver.

But what really got me excited about the Surface Duo was watching a video reaction to it by my friend Austin. He's a popular tech influencer who always brings his A-game when it comes to reviewing new devices. And in this case, he was reacting to a classic using the Surface Duo. It's amazing to see how well the phone performs, even with a demanding game.

As I continued to play around with the Surface Duo, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. This is a device that could really change the way we think about smartphones - or at least, it has the potential to. And because Microsoft has been so supportive of developers and software creators, I have no doubt that this phone will be able to deliver on its promises.

Of course, there's always room for improvement, but one thing that stood out to me was how well the Surface Duo handled my favorite tech-related activity - browsing Reddit. The display is beautiful, the camera is amazing, and the phone feels premium in your hand. And with its 5G connectivity and NFC, you'll be able to stay connected on the go.

But what really got under my skin was when I saw how much the Surface Duo had improved since its predecessor. Ken, a popular tech influencer who's always been...let's say, enthusiastic about his reviews, had almost wrecked this phone in the past. But Microsoft has taken feedback to heart and delivered a device that's both impressive and refined.

In short, I'm loving every minute of playing around with the Surface Duo. It's a rare item that's actually lived up to its promises, and I have no doubt that it will be a hit with tech enthusiasts and professionals alike. And if you're anything like me, you'll want to get your hands on one as soon as possible.

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layout.Place your cells how theybest fit in your space.- I could have boughtmore, but I spared you.- I like how it's impliedthat you could buy like five of these.- Oh, wow.I mean, that is quitesome packaging I will say.It looks like Marty Mcfly's leftovers.- It's like a space star burst.(packaging tears)- It just keeps going.What the hell is this?Inside box number one is more.What, what the?Uh huh.Remove before assembly.(packaging crinkles)Oh, sweet baby Jesus.- No, it saysremove after assembly.Look it says after.- After.- Where did you see before?Let it.No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no.How can you be so criminally bad at this?- Before you, Ineed to do another take.- Doesn't it need to go through here?- Oh, you're right.- How can you be socriminally bad at this, Ken?- Fair enough.- The Triphon, a threehorn system projects soundwith pinpoint accuracy.Single point source, allsound emanates from the coredelivering unmatchedclarity and perfect timber.All right, is everyone ready?We're about to start a sound check.I don't know what's about to happen.I have big expectations.Start sound check now.It is updating software, nevermind.(Ken laughing)- I am readyfor the AURAL experiencethat we're about to- You're about to experiencesome oral bliss, friends.- Aural!- Oral bliss is on the way.- AURAL, AURAL.- Apologies to everyone at home.I'm about to play copyrighted music.So, edit team,please put on somefriendly, royalty free musicso everyone can see how great this sounds.Wait.No, no, no.There's a royalty free track.We can actually listento altogether, okay.(dance music)(all laughing)What's wrong with us?This is one of the most expensivemystery tech items ever.The fact that one ofthese speakers is $1,800,for mere mortals likeus, is blowing our minds.- Yeah and it's not eventhat crazy like deep bass,- Yeah.- but it still packs a punchand it's again, as you said, it's even.- You know what we should do right now?We should take a momentand appreciate mysterybecause you know what we don'thave enough in the world?Mystery.- Wasn't (beep)good enough for you?- Oh my god.(Ken laughing)- It sounded way better in my.I don't know why, it sounded way better.- Yeah, (indistinct).(Ken laughing)- Boy, what the?Is that a F1 wheel?- It's not just a 1.- Did you break it?Did you break the wheel?- No, it came like that.- You dropped the wheel?Really, really, really,really, really hard?- I dropped the wheel sidewaysand by me I meant Sergio Perez.- Can I ask, oh wait,is this for what I think it is?- Yes.- Oh.You might want to subscribeand ring a ling that ding a ling button.We got some cool stuff coming up.I can't say anything about it though.You realize, I can't say anything right now.I.- I will, I will.I will be very subtle with my euphemism.- Wow, Ken, subtle.The Kensington SD5700TThunderbolt 4 Dual 4K dock.Are you about to give me a great segueto the sponsor of today's mystery tech,Intel's wonderful Thunderbolt technologypowered by Evo laptops.Oh, okay.All right.The Sabrent Rocket USBC external aluminum SSD,oh there's a bunch of stuff here.There's an enclosure.Oh wow.So we have three Thunderbolt SSDsand is that an Intel Evopowered Lenovo Yoga laptop?- Yes it is.- Oh boy.Okay, so there's a lot to break down here.So you're probablyfamiliar with Thunderbolt.This is a technology developed by Intel.That's been through many iterations,but essentially it is sortof like the ultimate portbecause with a single Thunderbolt port,not only can you power your device,but you also have 40 gigabitsper second throughput.So with my dock,I can do dual 4k displaysor an 8K display,on top of all the other nonsensethat I'm going to plugin.Oh, what the?Oh, is that a Thunderbolt display?- It is a Thunderbolt display.- That's a big chungus ifI've ever seen a big chungus.Is that a 38 inch?- This a 34 inch, 1440Phigh Thunderbolt display.- So I'm going build awhole set up right now.- Yes.- Okay.- So I don't know if you saw,- Yeah.- But- We have three individual,how big are this?- Did you see this one?- No.Eight terabytes over Thunderbolt SSD?- So they're ratingjust under 3000 megabytesper second.- Wow.So it will go down to USB,but obviously you get thebest speeds with Thunderbolt.2,700 megabytes per second.That is extremely fast.Wow.So this is an eightterabyte, two terabyte,and two terabyte.- That sounds like it'll be greatfor video editing.- So we're going to start outwith the dock.So we have the Thunderbolt in.We have USB A, SD card,and headphone jack,as well as little power button.But on the back we havethree more Thunderbolt ports,so we can load it up with SSDs.We have ethernet and a bunchmore 10 gig USB 3.0 ports.Okay.So this is a great place to start.So one of the nice thingsabout Thunderbolt is thatit is essentially the do everything port.So with a single cable,I'm going to plug in this Yoga laptop,which of course is EVO certified.Then it is going to turn on our dock,which has our mouse, ethernets,as well as we have our three SSDsand the display all connected.Again, this is all comingfrom a single cable.- And that was fairly quick too.- Fairly fast, right?Everything just lights up.It's good to go.And the cool thing aboutThunderbolt is thatit really kind of allowsyou to do everythingbecause I could just aseasily plug in a USB C cable.I could just be charging the laptop,which this is being chargedright now, by the way.Or you could even do somethingas simple as use thisto go out to like just asingle external displayor an external graphics cardor wherever the case is.I use Thunderbolt on a daily basis.I use a Thunderbolt display on my desk.I have since like 2016and it's nice because itreally allows you to dopretty much everything.Now, all you need is the one cable.Unplug it, grab your laptop,and you're good to go.I mean, it's hard to argue with that.Wait, I'm not, well, I'm not done.I was about to walk off.I'm not done yet.So you'd like to knowmore about Intel's fine,Thunderbolt technology, their EVO laptops,and of course the widevariety of accessoriesthat are available for them,definitely be sure to gocheck that out at the linkin the description andhuge shout out to Intelfor sponsoring thisepisode of Mystery Tech.Just lay it on me.- What?- Just lay it on me.- What are doing?No.Lay what on you?I'm not laying on you.- Throw my way.Wing it.- I have hid the productthat you're going totake a look at somewherein the room and you have to find it.- It's in your hand.I see it.- No, this is a different product.- No there's not.You're tricking me.I see a product in your hand right now.You want me to look around the set?You just tricked me.That was a duplicitous move.These are the AirPods 3.I am skepticalbecause while the upgradesto the AirPods 3, you know,having the new design and whatnot,are cool, spatial audio.These retail for $180.At that kind of price,you can get a lot of headphonesthat have active noise cancellation,like the Beats Studio Budsthat I've reviewed onMystery Tech previously,which I actually really like,but one of the things I'mprobably most excited foris wow, that's a small case,is the sound qualitybecause supposedly theseAirPods sound better.I've never been a huge fanof the way the AirPods sound.They always sound fine,but nothing more than that.My test is always does itfit in the coin pocket?So I'll take out my headphones.And that is, I mean, that's,those might be the smallest caseI've ever actually used fora pair of Bluetooth earbuds.That's really, really good.A lot of people like regular AirPodsbecause they have plastictips instead of rubber.I was actually like that for a long time.It took me years beforeI was really comfortablewith rubber ear tips.I've kind of gotten used to it,but there is certainly something,especially depending onlike the size of your ear,to the idea of using the plastic tip.All right.Let's see how they sound.(faint music)You know what?Not bad.- Is your hearing okay?- You can definitely hear my music?- Yeah, 100%.- It's at like 85 decibels.It's definitely not good for your hearing.- Thanks, Dad.- So the thing is, whatyou're missing herereally is the active noise cancellation.Definitely not here.100%, I can hear everything around me.The AirPods are pretty solid,but I also have recently gota pair of the Beats Fit Pros.So these are similar Iwould say in a lot of waysto the Beats Studio Buds.The Beats are only $20more than the AirPodsand while they don't have MagSafe,they do have active noise cancellationand they had the cool little light designthat fits in your ears.I've spent some time.I just got DM'd by Taco Bell.(laughing)That's a weird thing.Okay.- They sent a photo.- Oh, oh.- Y'all stay out of my DMs, okay.- I want,- I want to know.- I want.- Absolutely not.- You got DM'd by Taco Bell?(Ken laughing)- Yo, is Taco Bell DTF?- I shouldn't be surprised,but I guess I am.They're actually really similar.Both of them actually have similar sounds.Like I'll still say theBeats sound a little better,but that almost seemsmore like a consequencebecause they're actually sealed,which I think always justkind of helps to improvesort of sound quality.- But here's the thing,AirPods Pros are usually- Are about the same price.- around $180 anyway.- Yeah. These are 200and these are 180 MSRP.AirPods Pros technically cost 250,but you can find them 200bucks, 170, 180 bucks,pretty easily.- The Android argument's one thing,but if you're on the Apple side,just wait for the Prosto be on sale again.- That being said though,I actually still likethe Beats Studio Buds.They're 150 bucks.They have most of the same featuresexcept they have the small case.They had the active noise cancellationand they work well with Android.On top of that, the BeatsStudio Buds are $150 retail,but regularly go on salefor like 120, 130 bucks.Out of all these headphones,those actually are probably my pick.I don't think these make sense, 180 bucks.And I think these are okay at 200.I think the Beats Studio Budsare actually my favorite.- But, here's the thing.- Yeah.- AirPods 3.Got the flex.- Is that even a flex anymore?I feel like half the$20 wish earbuds you buylook exactly like AirPods anyways.- Yeah, they just.They're twice the size in your ear- No.- and people don't think I notice.- So then I told themthat what we really needis some tech that'sactually not super expensiveand he just laughed.Ow, did you just throw something at me?I'm having a chat with the director of,okay, that's fine.That's fine.This is the Pocket Tripod Pro.How much is a pocket tripod?- I bought them for 35 each.I have one as well.- 35 Bucks.Okay, that's not outrageous.They look a little like a JOBY pods there.That's about the same price.Wow.Okay.If this isn't a complete pile of garbage,this is actually going to be cool.- What?What are you?No, no.Go like this.- Rotate around.- They're together now.- Oh, oh, I see.Okay.You're you're you'reyou're smart, Mr. Bolido.You're smart.So now I'm going to hitrecord on the iPhone.- Yeah.- If we want aRoboraptor POV camera,we can just look at what it looks liketo be Roboraptor all day.- See, I want that for the planeso that I can watch videos on itand also have that in my wallet.(Austin humming Zelda music)- Whoa.Wow. That was really high.That will almost hit the top camera.Hello, welcome friends,to a very exciting timefor me to unbox an itemthat I single-handedly savedfrom the clutches of Kenwho almost wrecked.- I think you used two handsfor that.- Double handedly saved fromthe wicked witch himself,Ken.- I think it's on brand.- What?- Inside, the many layersof the box is this Surface Duo.The Duo.- What is wrong with you?Jesus.- Now this is actuallyone of those rare itemsthat I've actually beenable to try beforehand.So we actually went to asort of pre-brief hands-onof this a few weeks ago.I got what, 20 minutesto play with the phone.And in that 20 minutes,I was very impressed.So one of the first thingsyou'll notice is this has a much,much larger camera bump, AKA,it has a real set of cameras.So the first Duo only hada front facing camera,which you could kind of flip around,but this now has a propertriple camera setup.It has an ultra wide, awide, and a telephoto.The thing is, if you lookat these two devices, right?So the original Duo,as well as the Duo two,they're incredibly thin.And when it comes to designing cameras,the whole reason why, again,I'm just going to pull out,the Pixel has this huge camera bumpis because for a largecamera and a large sensor,large lens, you justneed some depth, right.Which is why they have tosort of chonktastic it up.- So the camera bump is angled.- Yes.- So that it's not going to scratchthe back of the phone.So while there is a bumpand it's not a perfect fold anymore,it's actually at least thought about.- So I have now installed the case,which calling this a case, I think,is kind of a overstating itbecause it is incredibly thin.But the nice thing isnot only does it have amagnetic spot for your pen,but it also wirelessly charges it.Because of the dual screen nature of this,you kind of need a lot ofadditional software support.So let me run you throughsome of the speeds and feeds,Snapdragon 888 processor,5G, NFC, giant battery,as well as you've got thetwo very large displays,which are now curved on the inside,which means that as you lookand you scroll between them,not only does it feelnice with your finger,but also it is very, very much seamless.Today I'm going to react to a classicusing the Surface Duo.Hello, welcome to my YouTube channelwhere I am a reactor reacting tothis heavily requested videoof a certain tech tip manand his important thoughts.Great intro.Very enthusiastic.He's now talking.- Austin.Tell me about the Duo.What do you think?- What accent was that?- I'm going to go leave now- A mix of Australian and British.- Thank you.Make sure you subscribe.Don't encourage Ken,but subscribe to me and you'll get contentthat's actually good.Unlike what you're watching right now.