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Smartphones with hinged, flexible displays that fold into a smaller form factor, a category led by Samsung and Chinese makers like Xiaomi.
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo opens for preorder today with camera features meant to get the photographer into the group shot. The camera drops the telephoto lens and the Pro video formats, so the fit depends on what the buyer shoots.
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Apple's iPhone Duo pre-orders showed January 2027 or later on every configuration within an hour of opening, 9to5Google reported. Teams with a foldable rollout before then have to pick a device they can actually get.
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Apple charges $999 to fix an iPhone Duo inner display without AppleCare+ and $1,499 for other damage, against $99 for each with it. One claim on either part saves more than the $399 upfront plan costs.
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Apple's iPhone Duo costs $1,999 and has no telephoto lens or variable aperture, Engadget reports. Whether its outer-screen camera modes make up for that depends on what the buyer actually shoots.
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Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo and Xiaomi's 10,999-yuan 18 Fold use the same 7.6-inch and 5.4-inch screens, Engadget's spec comparison shows. Engadget says they part ways on cameras, software, price and availability, and that neither phone has had an in-depth review yet.
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Apple has opened its Get Ready page so iPhone Duo buyers can save their order details before pre-orders start October 16 at 5 a.m. Pacific. Checkout then takes a couple of taps, 9to5Mac reported, but nothing is ordered until the buyer returns that morning.
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TCL's P80 Ultra is the first phone to pair matte Nxtpaper with OLED, adding the always-on display earlier models lacked. People who want a matte phone no longer give up screen quality for it, though they still give up speed and camera quality.
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders and its first foldable sit five weeks apart. Anyone buying handsets in quantity now has two ordering windows to choose between, and the larger phone is already the constrained one.
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Sharing one phone number across two iPhones is an iOS 27 setting that the carrier has to switch on and bill for. Adding a second handset now depends on the mobile contract.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman does not expect a substantial redesign for the second-generation iPhone Duo. The comparison he reaches for is a MacBook Pro whose shape has been in the lineup since 2021.
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Apps have to be rebuilt against iOS 27.0 to fill the iPhone Duo's larger inner display, and the same recompile retires the Liquid Glass opt-out. 9to5Mac expects some developers to drag their feet.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects Apple to follow the iPhone Duo with a bigger Duo Max and possibly a stripped-down Duo SE or a clamshell Duo Mini. The shipping Duo is the only one of them anyone can measure.
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Apple's first folding iPhone starts at $1,999 and unlocks with a side-button Touch ID sensor instead of Face ID. Keynote demos showed a drag docking a second app beside the first. App teams inherit that part.
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9to5Google published leaked Motorola design sketches only after a wireless charging listing turned up carrying the same Lenovo/Motorola watermark. The sketches describe a bezel-less cover display and a fold with no crease.
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Gizmodo argues the Duo's 7.6-inch inner screen and the iOS 27 dock leave Apple's 8.3-inch tablet nowhere to go. For the person buying either one, the decision still turns on a $1,300 gap and a missing magnet.
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As Apple's new CEO, John Ternus talked about AI as a source of new product capability and named Smart Take on the iPhone Duo as what it already does. Everything else he said about the roadmap stayed general.
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Killing the non-Pro model leaves last year's iPhone 17, repriced to $899, as the cheap option until spring, which makes this a decision about which quarter revenue lands in as much as about margin.
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Apple's foldable ships its own iOS point release, reworked around a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner one. That leaves iOS teams owning the layout questions system-level continuity does not answer.
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Mark Gurman's list of 41 devices under John Ternus looks like a three-year plan, but the near-term entries are largely new silicon and Siri promises in enclosures that do not change, which is a smaller planning problem than the number suggests.
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Samsung has stopped rationing what the Z Flip 8's outer screen can run, which leaves the reviewer at The Verge arguing that the apps behaving badly at 4 inches are what keeps the phone from eating 20 minutes.
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