I spent a few minutes with the iPhone Duo. Even as an Android user

The iPhone Duo’s design choices set a whole new standard. I spent a few minutes with the iPhone Duo. Even as an Android user, I’m blown away. Mobile I spent a few minutes with the iPhone Duo.

We’ve endured early hinge debacles, catastrophic inner-display peels, and awkward outer screens as companies like Samsung, OPPO, Xiaomi, and Google worked to refine the very idea of a folding phone. Apple has sat quietly on the sidelines while Android brands experimented, and while the company is over seven years late to the category, from my brief time with the new iPhone Duo, it might just have a winner in its hands. Which foldable design aspect ratio do you prefer.

34 votes Wide foldable (Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and iPhone Duo) 76 % Tall and narrow book-style foldable (Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra) 15 % Clamshell flip (Galaxy Z Flip 8) 9 % The iPhone Duo is dense, but not heavy Aamir Siddiqui / I went into my iPhone Duo briefing today having read the full spec sheet, and its 254g weight particularly stood out to me. That’s heavier than the iPhone 18 Pro Max (249g), which itself is the heaviest non-folding iPhone Apple has built to date. I expected a heavy brick of a phone, as all Pro Max iPhones have been, but the iPhone Duo left me pleasantly surprised.

Today is iPhone 18 Pro launch day, but ahead of iPhone Duo’s arrival in October, a variety of hands-on videos have surfaced online showing off the software keyboard, app multitasking, camera features, and more. IPhone Duo videos reveal split keyboard, app multitasking, more.

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