Microsoft's Duo foldable phone is an April Fool's joke in August

Microsoft's new foldable phone is uuuuuuugly! [View this email in a browser](   [Deals]( [Blog]( What even is this? Microsoft's first foldable phone is a huge misstep. When [Microsoft announced]( its highly anticipated Surface Duo today, I had to do a double-take looking at my calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st. I was gobsmacked to find out this was the new foldable phone that everyone was hyping up for the past few weeks. But here we are, in August, with this abomination in front of us. [Woman looking at an unfolded Microsoft Surface Duo]( Microsoft is pushing the idea that the Surface Duo rethinks the foldable phone for the future, but it's hard to look at the device and think it looks like anything but a relic from the past. Everything from the design of the device to the excusable missing features, don't add up to what a flagship smartphone looks like in 2020. Foldable? Yes. Pretty? Not especially. Microsoft's Surface line has always been about top-notch build quality and design, and while it succeeds in making its Surface laptops look awesome, the Surface Duo doesn't look like a 2020 flagship phone. Its large bezels seem like a design choice from three years ago, with a fairly big forehead and chin on both displays, and its size seems to miss the mark on what a foldable phone is supposed to be. A foldable phone is meant to be a phone when it's folded up, and more of a tablet when its folded out. The Surface Duo just looks like a tablet that unfolds to be a bigger tablet. Just look at how awkward it looks to hold for a phone call in the promo video above. It almost looks like you're holding an iPad Mini to your face. The hinge looks good — I'll give credit where credit is due if it works as well as it does in the video, then kudos to Microsoft for getting the fold in a foldable phone to be less clunky. Oh, wait. It's actually two separate screens, not one foldable screen, so it's not even a foldable when you think about it... [Continue reading on iMore to see just what the Surface Duo is doing wrong.]( All the best, Team iMore [Future Logo] © Future US, Inc., 11 W 42nd Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036 This email is intended for {EMAIL} To unsubscribe from iMore emails, or update your email preferences please [click here]( View our [Terms and Conditions]( or [Privacy Policy](.