Apple Reveals First Foldable "iPhone Duo"

[RAMROD 118,498]

7 hours ago, RAMROD said:

I don't like it, it's just basic outside its gimmicky folding model. I feel like 18 ProMax offers more, from the camera and more things. Also, no news about creasing yet, so early adopters will let us know 6-10 months from now, I guess 

Well, looks like don't have to wait that long for it. 
 

There's a crease, lady & gentlemen. Someone that attended the event in person clocking it.

 

 

 

[RenegAde 20,717]

2 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Well, looks like don't have to wait that long for it. 
 

There's a crease, lady & gentlemen. Someone that attended the event in person clocking it.

 

 

 

I thought they "waited 7 years to perfect what other companies have been doing for decades"

[Helxig 46,021]

Have y'all heard the price? It fills my mind with anger

[IllusionLover 7,990]

It should've been a flip phone instead

[nATAH 59,656]

3 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Well, looks like don't have to wait that long for it. 
 

There's a crease, lady & gentlemen. Someone that attended the event in person clocking it.

 

 

 

you can see it in the image of the OP lol

[gagzus 27,607]

11 hours ago, RAMROD said:

??

That is selective memory. I said that as someone who using since the first iPhone. 

Jobs is the one who make this new phone every year model a thing, and not just to Apple, it affects every other smart phones too. iPhone have always been coming out with new phones with minimal update every year, and only have actually big changes every 3 or 4 years cycle since the start. 

Yeah but my primary gripe is how little to no known difference there is now, an iPhone from 2 years ago is barely different from an iPhone 10 years ago but cost almost double the price for instance, and how much focus the company has in churning it out, making iOS updates that basically make older models run slower or entirely useless or entire features that aren’t accessible. For example if you have an iPhone older than an 8 I believe now they’re basically obsolete—which would be fine if the differences were huge and they aren’t.
At least with the other ones before his death he changed things like massive camera upgrades, the ability to use (at the time) 3G, greater signal coverage, lighter materials, size and then before his death he made the first “more affordable” iPhone with the 4S which was when roughly it stopped being an “expensive business phone” and became something the regular person wanted. 

He was focusing before his death on expansion of product range which the company has massively abandoned. Apple focuses primarily on iPhones because they’re easier to sell, followed by iPads and then iMacs. They completely destroyed his simplistic minimal model system that he established in the late 90s/early 2000s. 

They abandoned his Apple Television project and instead made the set top box,  because it was cheaper and easier to make and sell, he hated subscription services and believed in personal ownership (hence buying your phone outright, only allowing apps on the App Store where a one-time purchase was the limitation and iTunes) but they made things like Apple Music and Apple TV, even iCloud storage became a subscription thing after his death. 

And the new iPhone absolutely goes against his original ethos for the company of smart, sleek and portable. His believed that a smart phone should sit comfortably in one hand where your thumb can touch your index finger around it with ease. 

His entire business model was the seperate the products into 3s; one for the business professional, one for the everyday user and one for basic system output. Apple absolutely doesn’t stand by that anymore, they have confusing amounts of iPads for instance now.

Edited September 10 by gagzus

[HIMe 2,234]

Finally, we needed more competition in the Folding Smartphones space! 

 

Edited September 10 by HIMe

[Apec 453]

10 hours ago, darkgaga said:

Uhm they have usb slots?

I meant universal ones, so you don't have a closed system where every product has to be by the same brand at (inflated) prices! Also the lack of a physical earbud cable slot - many people hate wireless, including me. Sorry for any confusion! Some tablet models don't even have the standard USB size, just smaller slots that also only Apple cables and thus chargers fit in and the device recognizes iirc - my cousin had a hell of a time with that one.  

[Hydrangea 8,453]

As much as I don’t like Apple and big phone companies I feel like complaining about a crease in something that folds is like, do you know how physics work? 

[Ilia Malinin 3,224]

15 hours ago, skaxboy said:

I think I just want a new phone and have a case with a sturdy physical keyboard. Like a sidekick with the iPhone tech. 
 

Please update this elite phone:

 

my cousin got one of these when we were like...  10 and i was jealous of her for the next 8 years because her second phone was an iphone (she lost the sidekick during her days as a lifeguard)

[InTheCloset 21,899]

Me with an 11 pro max because im too broke

[darkgaga 7,183]

2 hours ago, Apec said:

I meant universal ones, so you don't have a closed system where every product has to be by the same brand at (inflated) prices! Also the lack of a physical earbud cable slot - many people hate wireless, including me. Sorry for any confusion! Some tablet models don't even have the standard USB size, just smaller slots that also only Apple cables and thus chargers fit in and the device recognizes iirc - my cousin had a hell of a time with that one.  

I use other brand cables all the time. And no phones have headphone jacks anymore. Just but the piece to put in between. 

[Jackaroo 3,022]

i’m still holding onto my iphone 13 pro max  meanwhile i learned a new word today- 

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[Mister G 10,544]

On 9/9/2026 at 4:13 PM, River said:

Camera sucks for the price and no face id so it’s like to go backwards just to have a mini mini ipad 

Literally has the same thought yesterday. Somehow the 18 Pro Max has the better camera? You'd think for the price of the Duo that the camera would simulate VR at this point and yet has worse optical zooming LOL.

[River 129,972]

13 minutes ago, Mister G said:

Literally has the same thought yesterday. Somehow the 18 Pro Max has the better camera? You'd think for the price of the Duo that the camera would simulate VR at this point and yet has worse optical zooming LOL.

exactly lol they are marketing it as the superior iphone compare to the 18 pro max but it's really not