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Looks genuinely cool and well thought. I’d love to have one. However in my country the starting price is 2300€ which I cannot justify for a phone. Hope that the price of this technology comes down over time.
I think it looks awesome and has very cool features, but that crease is gonna happen, and as another commenter said, I’ll let others be the guinea pigs.
And that price is absolutely goddamn bananas. It’s basically an iPad mini that folds. And I don’t need an iPad mini.
I carry a phone and an iPad mini. When both are due to be upgraded for me in a couple or three years, I may consider this.
I’ve been skeptical of a folding iPhone, but the aspect ratio of the duo hits just right for me. And the exterior screen. Of course I’m not gonna jump on gen 1.
I’ve been waiting on the idea of a folding phone until Apple did it, cause I pretty much was sure only they could do it right. It looks like I was right, but I’m still not convinced that they can/have solve(d) the crease problem.
I can’t afford to upgrade right now, especially at these prices, and I probably wouldn’t just because I want other people to test it out first. Also, we’re at the era when iPhones last for years and years. I’m still on my iPhone 14 Pro and perfectly happy with it. If I got the iPhone duo now, and it wasn’t built to last like my iPhone 14 Pro, I’d be pretty pissed. So I’m perfectly happy to let others test it out, or even wait until the iPhone duo two or three before I commit, again, especially at these prices. (holy banana boobies!)
I used to upgrade every year until my 11 Pro, then a few years until my 14 Pro, and now I haven’t upgraded since because Apple makes their phone so goddamn well. The only reason I’m even considering upgrading at this point is because I want a USB-C port, and I have finally dropped my iPhone so many times, that it has lost it waterproofness. Because I never owned an iPhone more than a year, this hasn’t happened before, but after year 4, I’m in a bit of a tough spot.
Math is like that…
Edit: oh shit, like seven people made comments while I was editing this. Sorry!
Every three or four years seems to be the sweet spot now, especially when that aligns with carrier incentives. I think that’s the iPhone business model now, get 25–33% of iPhone users to upgrade each year.
It was very different back in the early days, when the phone was $500. At four times the price, even with carrier incentives and payment plans, I just don’t see the point.
But, as I said, Apple really builds them to last now, and the software really supports the hardware for quite some time. Even the upcoming version of iOS will still support the iPhone 12.
As someone who is on my second foldable, I don’t get why everyone fixates on the crease. It’s seriously not a big deal and you don’t notice it in day to day use.
As someone who hasn’t actually had one ever, that should probably answer your question
But I do have a not-tiny amount of OCD, so it’s a type of thing that would annoy me insanely, even though it didn’t really matter that much
The iPhone mini dying for this is a terrible trade off. Maybe after this gimmick fails they’ll try the mini again
Yeah i’m nursing my 13 mini along as long as I can, RIP reasonably-sized phones
My iPhone SE is at 68% battery life and 6yrs old. This may the closest we get to a smaller phone. I will likely wait until next year and hopefully buy the version 1 cheaper.
My wife got a new-in-box third-gen SE last year and now we’re both just dreading having to replace these things
Oh so lucky. I bought two refurbished SEs snd had to send them back. I gave up. Hold onto it!
nope
I’ll let others be the guinea pig testers.
I’ve seen that crease that other foldables develop and it looks atrocious. Hoping Apple found a way to not have that happen.
Plus my 15 Pro is still going strong. All I wanted was USB type C and I feel content with everything this has to offer even at 3+ years old.
And that price is crazy starting at $1,999 for 256GB. My MacBook Pro M5 with 1TB and 24GB RAM I got this year was cheaper than the base model of this at $1499 and that was after RAM price increases.
TIL there’s a comm for apple enthusiasts on lemmy.
Genuinely didn’t see that coming.
And it’s huge!!!
it does not look sleek, or cool. for some reason it reads as some crap samsung would try to sling
what is happening over there?
This is really weird design.
It looks like they’ve taken an iPad Mini and made it foldable with an extra display for when it’s closed?
I like the look and size of it when open; it essentially replaces the Mini. But I can’t think of a reasonable use case for a “passport sized” device that’s got the 2D dimensions as a passport but the thickness of a mid-sized paperback. And that screen becomes an outer surface… so it’s going to get dinged up a LOT.
What idiot would ever put a screen on the outer surface?!?!?
/s
I like how one of the examples is them propping the device up with the outer screen facing down on a cinder block or whatever to take a photo.
Yeah let me just do that with my $2000 phone.
Wait I need to turn the camera just a little more scrapes front display on cinder block grit
I thought you were going to go with the random passerby just yoinking your phone
I wasn’t sure what to expect when Appy finally released their first folding phone, but naming it after the Microsoft Surface Duo folding phone was not on my list at all.
The Powerbook Duo predates Microsoft surface by about 30 years.
Though exists in a completely different product category.
Apple likes to recycle their brand names. AppleVision was a display long before it was used s the headset branding. I’ll be interested to see if the Apple folding phone is a flop. I would much rather have seen the Duo name saved for something more innovative. 🤷♂️
It’s a shame that Microsoft gave up on Windows phone. It was a good product around version 7 and 8. Slapping android on a device and giving it Microsoft branding was just utterly embarrassing though. Still, I expect nothing less from their current lack of vision or leadership.
Actually needs to be smaller.
May the ghost of mini haunt you forever, Apple 👻
All 7 of you that bought it are devastated.
$2000… Good grief. For the base model, too!
I would say “Read the room, Apple,” but they seem to be doing just fine by squeezing every nickel and dime from everybody else.
Look at MSRP of Samsung. It’s $1900.
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Price is insane.
i just don’t understand who needs an ipad mini sized screen in their pocket all the time, even if it is foldable.
Really really really disappointed in the software on this thing. The floating UI elements on the side look awful… The integrated status indicator is a cool innovation that should’ve been included as stock in iOS 27.
The super squished homescreen view on the outer display looks like an absolute disaster. I hate literally everything about the UI, and I’m absolutely not getting one anytime soon.
Side mounted fingerprint scanner to unlock? Absolutely fucking not. My Apple Watch unlock takes at least twice as long to unlock my phone/laptop compared to Face ID.
Oh I didn’t realise it was Touch ID only, can’t believe they’ve dropped Face ID from it, that’s crazy.
I just wish the camera had all the same features as the pro
