Here’s where the “design decisions” come in. And I’m not in the habit of sticking submarine sandwiches in my pockets. If the average smartphone is about the thickness of a PB&J, putting two of them together – as do other foldables such as the Galaxy Z Fold 2 or the LG V60 ThinQ – is like building a hoagie. It’s just about the thickness of a magazine, which is simply remarkable. Half the size! Folded up, it’s 9.9 mm, just over a millimeter thicker. Each screen is 4.8mm thin, a little more half the size of that new Galaxy. Compare it to the phone Samsung released in 2019, the Galaxy S10 Plus - a beautiful hunk of glass 6.4 inches long and 7.8mm thin. The latest example of this is the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, a beautiful hunk of glass 6.5 inches long and 8.8mm thin. These decisions are meant to squeeze as much tech goodness as possible into a device about 7mm thick and around 6 inches long. Smartphone makers have for years battled physics and Moore’s Law to shave a tenth of a millimeter off their phones and, at the same time, add an extra few minutes of talk time. Sure, it’s thin, but where’s the wireless charging or 5G? Sure, it’s much cheaper than other foldables, but you lose out on the fastest chipset on the market. It’s easy to look at a spec sheet for the Surface Duo and see a series of compromises. Microsoft Surface Duo reportedly getting Android 12L despite missing Android 11 Microsoft’s Surface Duo gets a Windows-style refresh with Android 12L
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