iPhone Duo • Hacker News Board

MPSimmons wrote: post #235

Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? I don't mind folding. I think it's cool, and a nice way to get a useful space. But I have big hands, and I can't use my iphone 17 now without two hands. This is even wider before unfolding. Who wants bigger phones? Who is like, "damn I wish I had a tablet that I could fold up and still barely fit in my pocket"? I want smaller phones. The…

Apple Watch with cellular is effectively iPhone mini. There are 3d printable cases to make it into a bar phone.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1022751-watch-phone#profile...

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by MBCook » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #268

The folding/unfolding animation is one of the coolest I've seen from a foldable. So slick.

That impressed me too. Be if those “Apple touches” of yore. I kind of wonder how well it works in person, but it’s nice that it’s there at all.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by kvuj » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

low_tech_punk wrote: post #71

iPhace Duo https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/

The main problems from that Duo was that Microsoft didn't believe in it.

This lead them to use a garbage CPU and support it for something like 2 years.

Apple has the balls to keep updating the vision pro even after it flopped and it will probably get 7 years.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by igmn » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

Worse in most ways than every other iPhone, more expensive, gets permanently (sometimes deathly) damaged by fingernails, keys, sand, plastic and literally anything that's harder than about a fingernail. All the supposedly unique usecases can be resolved by a $1 kickstand, a $50 speaker, or a $500 iPad plus a non-foldable phone. You can get a whole MacBook too. So, no thanks.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by 8by3 » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

I'm so happy I stopped caring about new phones about five years ago, since then I've spent about $200 on phones – for a used pixel 8 that I installed GrapheneOS on.

Consumerism is mad.

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by sgallant » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

MPSimmons wrote: post #235

Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? I don't mind folding. I think it's cool, and a nice way to get a useful space. But I have big hands, and I can't use my iphone 17 now without two hands. This is even wider before unfolding. Who wants bigger phones? Who is like, "damn I wish I had a tablet that I could fold up and still barely fit in my pocket"? I want smaller phones. The…

totally agree with this

Re: iPhone Duo

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

ivraatiems wrote: post #95

$2,000 for a phone? Holy price point, Batman. No thanks. I assume the people who would buy something like this have enough money not to care, and also would not care about the second part of my comment, because they want New Thing or use their phones enough for it to be useful. I guess it might be the case that the only way to make the folding screen thing even remotely work is a very, very expensive manufacturing pr…

You remind me of the (in)famous comment by Steve Ballmer when the iPhone was first introduced .