Save over 50% on Microsoft’s Surface Duo, a killer phone for gaming and productivity - perrinandill

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If you've forever wanted to guess you were gaming on a Nintendo DS while playacting Xbox titles on a Microsoft-built Humanoid earphone with two screens—or desired a radical dual-screen device for eventual productiveness—then IT's eventually time to count the Rise up Couple. A third-party seller happening Virago is pickings another 25 percent off an already steeply discounted cut-rate sale toll for the 128GB and 256GB Microsoft Surface Duo. That drops the final cost down to about $630 and $660 respectively, a far cry from the twist's original staggering $1,400 price.

To get the deal click the 25 percent off voucher under the price on the ware page. Do note that these particular models are barred to the AT&T meshwork, yet.

The Microsoft Surface Duo is a double-screen out phone with a flexible joint that folds the deuce sides together like a book. Apiece silver screen is 8.1 inches with 2700-by-1800 resolution at 401 pixels per inch. By dint of having two screens, the Duo is an odd parry in the Android world, with most apps non assembled to take over advantage of its dual-screen nature. Microsoft apps are optimized for it, however, and that's where this device truly shines.

surface duo xcloud — The Shallow Duo playing an Xbox Cloud Gaming deed of conveyance with dedicated come to controls.

One fantabulous feature that of late came to the Duo is patronage for xCloud, Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming serve for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. The update turns the Duo into a portable gaming machine for cyclosis Xbox console titles.

On the one screen you see the game itself, while the other shows dedicated touch controls, as you can see in the image to a higher place from Surface chief Panos Panay. The controls can change supported the spunky, and there are about 50 games that presently substantiate the Duo.

The Aboveground Duo is an absorbing twist, and if you live in Microsoft's world (or at least subscribe to Xbox Game Pass), so today's pricing finally makes the immoderate two-screen earpiece worth considering.

[Today's pile: Microsoft Duo for $630 (128GB) and $660 (256GB) on Amazon.]

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Ian is an independent writer settled in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn't like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, telecasting and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news program he's working on how-to tips for Microcomputer users, or tuning his eGPU setup.