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Apple's long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo

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Apple ended today's hardware event with one of its classic "One more thing" reveals. Some smartphone makers have been offering foldable phones for the better part of a decade, but Apple has now joined the fray with the iPhone Duo after years of speculation. This device is undeniably the most capable iPhone ever, as well as the most expensive.

It's not as spendy as many expected, though, starting at $1,999. That's in the same range as foldables from Google and Samsung. An iPad in your pocket The iPhone Duo would have looked like a totally fresh take on the foldable form factor a few months ago, but Samsung has made waves with the Galaxy Z Fold 8.

Like that phone, the iPhone Duo has a wider, shorter chassis. Apple prefaced its reveal with a denunciation of foldables that open into a square aspect ratio. While that shape can accommodate two portrait apps side by side pretty well, it's bad at almost everything else, stretching single apps awkwardly and leaving videos with gargantuan black bars.Read full article Comments

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