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iPhone Duo: Apple reveals its most dramatic redesign ever
Confirmed
In Short: Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, featuring a new customizable Pro controls interface in the Camera app and a unique foldable design.
The iPhone Duo, with its 1:1.4 aspect ratio when open and closed, invites users to explore a new form factor that differs from the square aspect ratio of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8. "Apple suggests this 'invites you to open' the phone," said an Apple spokesperson, as reported by Ars Technica.
While the iPhone Duo is undeniably the most capable iPhone ever, it also comes at a premium price. "The iPhone Duo would have looked like a totally fresh take on the foldable design a few months ago, but Samsung has made waves with the Galaxy Z Fold 8," noted Ars Technica.
Apple prefaced its reveal with a denunciation of foldables that open into a square aspect ratio, leading to the iPhone Duo adopting a passport-like shape when closed. "Apple ended today’s hardware event with one of its classic 'One more thing' reveals," according to Ars Technica.
What's confirmed
- The iPhone Duo, with its 1:1.4 aspect ratio when open and closed, invites users to explore a new form factor that differs from the square aspect ratio of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8. "Apple suggests this 'invites you to open' the phone," said an Apple spokesperson, as reported by Ars Technica.
- While the iPhone Duo is undeniably the most capable iPhone ever, it also comes at a premium price. "The iPhone Duo would have looked like a totally fresh take on the foldable design a few months ago, but Samsung has made waves with the Galaxy Z Fold 8," noted Ars Technica.
- Apple prefaced its reveal with a denunciation of foldables that open into a square aspect ratio, leading to the iPhone Duo adopting a passport-like shape when closed. "Apple ended today’s hardware event with one of its classic 'One more thing' reveals," according to Ars Technica.
What's still developing
- Apple announced the two phones today, revealing a new customizable Pro controls interface in the Camera app.
- The iPhone has long been one of the best phones around for point-and-shoot photography, but Apple hasn’t given keen photographers quite the same freedom as some Android rivals.
- That looks to be changing with the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, which finally bring a much more comprehensive set of manual camera controls.
- Apple says an API will give developers even more control across the aperture range in third-party apps.
- Samsung even beat Apple to physical aperture control by quite a margin: the Galaxy S9 let you manually switch its main camera between f/1.5 and f/2.4 back in 2018.
- 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.
- Apple is adding a long-awaited device to its product lineup.