Microsoft has a brand new telephone of its personal, the Surface Duo 2, arriving October twenty first — and should you purchase an non-obligatory “Surface Duo 2 Pen Cover,” you’ll be capable of magnetically dock and wirelessly cost the corporate’s non-obligatory $130 Surface Slim Pen 2 stylus and use it with the Android telephone.

The want for a particular cowl wasn’t fairly made clear through the firm’s presentation final week, nor a value or launch date, however Microsoft confirmed to Windows Central today that it’ll price $65 on October twenty first. While that’s the identical day the Surface Duo 2 is slated to launch, it surprisingly didn’t go up for pre-order alongside the telephones, and nonetheless isn’t out there so as to add to a cart now. You can find its product page here, with the Pen Cover listed as “Coming soon.”

The itemizing says it provides 32g (0.07oz) price of weight to the telephone, and reveals that it’s not a full case, however reasonably a half shell mixed with a few floating bumpers. It’s additionally listed as being suitable with the unique Surface Slim Pen, but it surely’s not clear whether or not it docks or expenses the older pen, or (hopefully) each. You can get it in each colours (it appears to mix fairly properly with the telephone) and it’ll have a cloth lining to guard the end of your system.

Here’s our first hands-on with the Surface Duo 2; We’ll have a full assessment additional down the street.

Microsoft says the unique Surface Duo will get an replace to Android 11 by 12 months’s finish.