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With the end of the year fast approaching, it's always a fun exercise to look back at the best and worst of the last twelve months. We're not about to say 2021 was a "good" year by any particular metric (have you opened a newspaper lately?), but plenty of fun things happened — especially in our tech-centric corner of the world. Too bad this particular article isn't about any of those things. Here are some of the biggest tech fails of 2021.
Microsoft Surface Duo 2 review: Do not pay $1,500 for this
Even on sale, it's only for Microsoft acolytes
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Microsoft has tried almost everything to get a foothold in mobile, and its current strategy focuses on the Surface Duo 2. This dual-screen smartphone doesn't change the fundamentals of the original—it opens like a laptop, revealing two identical 5.8-inch screens. Microsoft says two screens equal "limitless possibilities," but the limits are clear: this device is for people who live their lives inside Microsoft's ecosystem.
Microsoft Surface Duo 2 stops by the FCC before its debut later this week
This time the phone is more of, you know, a phone
Microsoft has a press event scheduled for this Wednesday, September 22nd. The Surface Duo 2 is expected to attend, among other less mobile Surface-branded hardware. In apparent preparation for a rapid release, the successor to the unique dual-screen folding phone stopped by the Federal Communications Commission for the usual round of testing and certification.
Microsoft's follow-up to the Surface Duo seems to forget the one thing we actually liked about the first
What good is a thin chassis when the camera bump is so massive?
Microsoft's first-generation Surface Duo is — to be blunt — not a particularly good phone. It also, presumably, hasn't sold well in its first year on the market, dropping as low as $1,000 off its initial MSRP just a few weeks ago. And despite a promised Android 11 update that is still MIA, it seems as though Microsoft isn't ready to throw in the towel on its foldable phone series just yet.