Microsoft’s Surface Duo gets a Windows-style refresh with Android 12L - Digital Trends

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Microsoft is yet updating its Surface Duo — ahem — duo to Android 12 this week. The institution broke the quality connected its authoritative Microsoft Devices Blog aft antecedently committing to rolling retired an update sometime this year. Android 12 was made mostly disposable by Google successful October 2021, portion Android 12L deed Pixels successful March.

The prima of the amusement present is Android 12’s large ocular refresh. Yup, Material You, dynamic colour theming, and much are coming to the Surface Duo phones. The institution arsenic adjacent throwing successful 4 caller wallpapers to item the refresh. However, Microsoft is going a measurement further by redesigning the Duo’s bundle truthful that it’ll look a batch similar Windows 11. This is beauteous evident successful that the strategy settings app and notification halfway present lucifer Windows 11’s versions of those features, and determination are a batch of fluent plan (Microsoft’s plan language) touches hidden successful the company’s preinstalled apps. In different words, the Surface Duo and Duo 2 brace are becoming existent Windows phones. Of course, this illusion disappears erstwhile you dip into third-party apps, but if you’re buying a Microsoft Duo, you’re astir surely a superfan.

Microsoft's caller wallpapers with Android 12L.

Other than the plan refresh, the Duo besides benefits from the modular Android 12 features. These see enhanced privateness via the caller Privacy dashboard, notification and camera indicators, improved accessibility, and caller speech widgets for keeping way of your chats. One much Windows diagnostic makes a leap present with the Surface Slim Pen 2’s caller “pen menu.” Accessed by clicking connected the apical of the Pen, you’re capable to rapidly motorboat apps similar OneNote conscionable arsenic you would connected a Surface Pro.

Though Microsoft is simply a spot precocious to the Android 12L enactment (and Android 13 is already retired to boot), the Surface Duo is simply a unsocial capable instrumentality that those who bash similar it would conscionable beryllium blessed that it turns on. At the aforesaid time, Android 13 doesn’t connection capable implicit Android 12L that users volition find themselves successful the lurch. It was Android 12 that was the large update, and Duo users should beryllium gladsome Microsoft is yet getting astir to it.