Duo first impressions 0 ▲ Mark Smith 9 hours ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments I had a chance to check out the iPhone Duo earlier in a real life store. After reading a lot of reviews, I was thinking it was going to be some sort of massive brick phone from the 80s or something, but actually it was smaller than I had expected. I mean it is thicker than most phones for sure but each pane is actually kind of thin, it's just thick when its folded. It felt quite sturdy. The outer screen is about big enough to do simple emailing and web browsing. I tried both Mail and Safari on the outer screen and it looked okay. It took me a little while to figure out the new gestures. Once I got the hang of swiping an app out of full screen mode, it was very usable. Of course the big draw is the fully open screen, which is very impressive. It's basically a small iPad. Would be great for watching videos. I only had a few minutes to get a sense of the general shape, size and weight. I didn't get a chance to have two apps open side by side, I couldn't figure out how to do that. That… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.