Apple has yet unveiled its archetypal ever foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo. As usually happens these days, the rumors and leaks were each spot connected (well, but for the name). The iPhone Duo's screens person the aforesaid facet ratio, and the foldable surface has an under-display selfie camera.
The titanium hinge has an integrated magnet array that satisfyingly snaps it shut. Touch ID is integrated into the broadside button, arsenic you'd expect from a foldable, but you tin besides unlock the iPhone Duo with your Apple Watch. It has a 7.6" main folding surface and a 5.4" screen display. Both enactment ProMotion, and person 3,000-nit highest brightness.
There's Ceramic Shield connected the back, Ceramic Shield 2 connected the beforehand screen, and the instrumentality is IP68 rated for particulate and h2o resistance. There's a "custom nano-texture finish" that creates a perceptually level matte aboveground that reduces crease visibility. There's besides a coating for scratch absorption connected the folding screen, which sits connected a titanium plate.
The telephone is powered by the A20 Pro spot conscionable similar the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, which were besides unveiled today. The SoC is made connected a 2nm process and comes with a 6-core CPU, a 7-core GPU, and a dual 16-core NPU. Compared to the A19 Pro, the A20 Pro has a 20% faster CPU and up to 40% faster GPU, arsenic good arsenic doubly the Neural Engine compute powerfulness and 50% much unified representation bandwidth.
The iPhone Duo has Apple's C2 modem, which supports mmWave 5G successful the US. Its Apple N1 spot supports Bluetooth 6 and Wi-Fi 7 too. The telephone is eSIM-only worldwide, and Apple promises up to 31 hours of video playback erstwhile utilizing the interior display, and 44 hours with the outer display. Apple promises up to 24 hours of usage erstwhile you usage some screens equally. Wired charging tin adhd 50% successful 20 minutes, portion wireless charging tin adhd 50% successful 30 minutes with a MagSafe oregon Qi2 charger.
The iPhone Duo has a 48MP Fusion main camera with an integrated "optical-quality" 2x telephoto mode, a 48MP ultrawide camera which supports macro photography, and a 12MP Center Stage beforehand camera successful the screen display, which seems to usage the aforesaid sensor arsenic the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The interior folding surface has an under-display selfie camera, but its hardware is yet to beryllium detailed.
iOS 27 has been specially adapted for the iPhone Duo and its displays, with an adaptive UI that reacts and reorients arsenic the telephone folds, turns, oregon flips. Lock surface controls, the location surface dock, app navigation, and different controls person been moved to the broadside to sphere much vertical country for content. When the telephone is unfolded, the location surface shows 2 pages simultaneously.
The presumption barroom has been redesigned too, arsenic a flexible circular interface that sits successful a country and displays Wi-Fi, cellular signal, and artillery level. The Dynamic Island is redesigned for the broadside of some screens and expands to contiguous alerts and Live Activities. Of course, you tin tally 2 apps successful Split View connected the interior show and prevention app pairs you usage often with conscionable a tap.
The iPhone Duo comes successful Star White and Night Sky. It starts astatine $1,999 with 256GB of storage, and goes up to $2,199 with 512GB, $2,599 with 1TB, and $3,199 with 2TB. It volition spell connected pre-order connected October 16 and volition beryllium released connected October 23. Apple volition besides commencement supporting the Apple Pencil for the iPhone Duo aboriginal this year.
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