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You may have thought $1,500 was a little steep for Microsoft’s first Surface Phone, and you were right. While the Surface Duo has a lot of great hardware in it, the software just never fully came together. As a result, the price on this fascinating folding phone has been dropping like crazy over the last two months. A few weeks ago it seemed likely that cutting the price by two-thirds would have been the lowest point, but today you can grab a Surface Duo at DailySteals for $400, if you use the coupon code CNETMSD at checkout, making it just $50 more than the freshly announced Nintendo Switch OLED due out in October.
Even if all you wanted was a quirky gadget to experiment with until the next one comes out, a Surface Duo for $400 is a pretty great deal. The two large displays can be used side by side or you can fold it into a tiny laptop and enjoy movies or gaming. Fans of Xbox game streaming will find it’s surprisingly fun to have the lower screen act as a controller for your favorite Xbox games, and if you go looking for some decent emulator apps you’ll find there’s a ton of other games you can play wherever you are.
This particular Surface Duo is locked to ATT, but if you want to unlock it for another mobile network all you need to do is request an unlock code from ATT or Microsoft. The only real downside here is software updates: If Microsoft is getting rid of these phones at such a rapid rate there’s a good chance you’re not going to see much support for this model for very long.
First published earlier this month. Updated with new deal details.
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