The Apple iPhone Duo is disposable for pre-order starting today – oregon alternatively we should accidental that it was available. The precise constricted proviso became painfully evident erstwhile specified hours aft launching, Apple’s online store was already showing a shipping day of January 22.
The archetypal program was for the iPhone Duo to commencement shipping connected October 23 aft a week of pre-orders. And immoderate radical volition surely get theirs connected that date, but astir Duo buyers are successful for a wait.
We checked the online store successful aggregate countries: the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, India, Australia, New Zealand and China. They each showed the aforesaid happening – January 22. We tried clicking done assorted colour and retention combinations to nary avail.
Normally, we expect to spot the extra-pricey 1TB and 2TB variants to person amended shipping dates arsenic astir radical people gravitate towards the cheaper models. That this is not the lawsuit is telling for conscionable however constricted the proviso is overall. And, of course, it besides shows the beardown request for Apple’s archetypal foldable, including from radical for whom wealth is nary object.
You tin effort your luck astatine your section Apple store, the brick-and-mortar kind. Maybe they person units connected manus – the online leafage says “Pickup: Check backmost for availability connected October 24”. It’s imaginable that third-party retailers volition person immoderate banal extracurricular of what Apple has reserved for itself too.
The iPhone Duo comes successful Star White and Night Sky colors
Anyway, analysts similar Jeff Pu were proven close – past month, Pu said that the iPhone Duo volition beryllium hard to bargain this year owed to constricted supply. According to the analyst, lone 6 cardinal units volition beryllium produced this year, down from the archetypal people of 7 million. For context, Apple is expected to merchantability a combined 72 cardinal iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max units successful full by the extremity of this year.
The archetypal question of iPhone Duo pre-orders covers implicit 70 countries and regions, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, the US and Vietnam. We didn’t cheque each 70+, but we’d beryllium amazed if determination is banal disposable anyplace – but if we are incorrect and you bash find Duo units somewhere, marque definite to permission a comment.
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