Microsoft Surface Duo 2 Spotted With Snapdragon 888, 8GB RAM

Microsoft is hard at work on its second Android smartphone, the Surface Duo 2. The dual-screen telephone could make it in October packing all-around improvements over its predecessor. Ahead of that, the device has appeared in benchmarking platform Geekbench confirming a couple of key improvements.

Per the Geekbench listing, the Microsoft Surface Duo 2 will feature an octa-core processor with one prime core clocked at 2.84GHz, three middle-cores at 2.42GHz, and iv power-efficient cores at 1.8GHz. The source code of the listing further reveals an Adreno 660 GPU. This clearly indicates the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. Well, we've been hearing it of getting this Qualcomm processor merely it's at present confirmed.

Snapdragon 888 marks a major upgrade from an outdated Snapdragon 855 chipset the original Surface Duo featured. Microsoft could accept washed even amend by including the Snapdragon 888+ but we aren't complaining.

The Surface Duo 2 volition too seemingly get 8GB of RAM, at to the lowest degree in one variant. The starting time-gen model topped at 6GB of RAM, so that'due south another notable upgrade from Microsoft. The upcoming device will run Android 11 out of the box, so it meliorate arrive sooner than later every bit Android 12 is near to go official in a few weeks.

The Geekbench entry doesn't reveal anything else about the Microsoft Surface Duo 2. Just we've been hearing about this phone for several months now and it'due south shaping up to be quite an upgrade. With Snapdragon 888, the device will back up 5G connectivity, something that was missing on the original Surface Duo.

A recent leak revealed that the upcoming device will feature three cameras at the back. If you retrieve, the first-gen Surface Duo only featured one camera on the entire unit — an 11-megapixel sensor at the front. In that location was no rear-facing camera at all. So that'southward one more major upgrade, we'd say.

Microsoft has enough to amend with the Surface Duo 2

Apart from the processor and cameras, the second-gen Surface Duo needs improving in plenty of other areas also. For a dual-screen phone, the original model featured a paltry 3577 mAh battery with just 18W of fast wired charging. It didn't offer wireless charging. Information technology also lacked an NFC chip and topped out at merely 128GB of onboard storage without support for a MicroSD card in some regions. That'due south not justifiable for a phone that costs as loftier every bit $ane,500.

The original Surface Duo besides seemingly made a lot of durability compromises as there have been many reports of issues with its swivel, display, photographic camera, and charging port. Hopefully, Microsoft will expect into this matter also with the Surface Duo two. With the device rumored to break embrace in Oct, y'all can wait to hear more most it in the coming weeks.