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Re: iPhone Duo

#191
post #56

It looks very useful with all the software integrations. Now the price tag however... Without financing it would be hard for majority of buyers to justify.

Doesn’t almost everyone finance their phone anyway? You pay a carrier x a month and get a phone and service for a few years. Maybe they’ll push the plan out from 2 years standard to 3 so it’s just as affordable for people?

Re: iPhone Duo

#193
I guess it's not cool but if i had a fold phone I'd much prefer it be like the nintendo DS with 2 separate screens (taking up the whole space though). If they can make it foldable they should be able to have 2 screens without a bezel

Re: iPhone Duo

#194
post #164

Ugh; folding screens are so failure prone these things just exacerbate e-waste problems Would rather ditch my phone size thing and be able to pair a cellular Watch to iPad Mini size thing that also has "50% more screen" than iPhone Max Gen AI could take telemetry like GPS from Watch and recreate most adventures without need of all the pictures; I don't care if every little thing like a day hike is captured "for real"…

What an amazingly soulless way to think

Re: iPhone Duo

#195

After four years of watching the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel snap Google's foldable phones in half at the same spot along the antenna lines, I'm looking forward to seeing how well this holds up. Something this expensive should not be that fragile year after year.

new foldables are surprisingly strong along the spine. Not impossible to snap or damage but would support being accidentally sat on without it being catastrophic, for example.

Re: iPhone Duo

#196
I'm looking forward to doing code review on the go on a phone like this! Once a GrapheneOS-compatible brand copies it, that is.

Re: iPhone Duo

#197
I don't see the appeal of this or the Phone 18 for the matter. I have an (old) iPhone 15 Pro that just works so the upgrade just doesnt seem worth it.

Also I think it would be quite bulky to carry the Duo in a pocket all day long.

Re: iPhone Duo

#199
It felt very "un-Apple" when they called it a foldable phone _before_ revealing it.

The folding part is the thing the tech journalists say; done right, it shouldn't matter whether it's foldable or not.

Bigger screen, pencil support, nano-glass, etc. The foldable part is obvious, why say it?

Re: iPhone Duo

#200
post #140

I'll give John Ternus credit: the demos are interesting and fun . Maybe not $2k fun + inherent risk with buying the first generation of an Apple product particularly after the Apple Vision Pro, but still.

I agree. The demos were great. They really showed off how things you already do today are "better" on two screens. This is in contrast to the Vision Pro where the demos were of things that were neat but I can't see myself needing (watching 3D captures, watching a big virtual cinema screen). I think this will be a hit, but the $2k is a bit much for me to even consider getting one. Obviously they'll likely drop that pr…

It’s the exact same price point as the Samsung Z Fold 8, which is this phone’s exact competitor.

$2k is a lot to ask, but it answers the market 100% on “I’d like a Samsung Fold 8, but as an iPhone”.

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