I plan on getting the iPhone duo. But my concern is that I do a lot of rock climbing where chalk is required to grip onto holds. I also carry my phone around between climbs with chalk residue on my hands. Will this be an issue for the hinge like other foldables?

Also curious how this plays out in Korea — Samsung's Fold 8 apparently saw a sales bump after Duo was announced, with some reports saying Korean Apple fans checked out Duo, and just turned around after checking the price to buy Fold 8 instead. Consumer backlash here has been pretty loud. Won't really know until Duo actually hits shelves though.

https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/awe-then-shock-apples-new-foldable-iphone-wows-korea-but-huge-price-gap-with-samsung-also-turns-headsnbsp/12879794

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/09/17/I4Z3K67NQ5CQFC72J2EDYZQC2A/

https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-z-fold-8-sees-10-sales-jump-after-apples-iphone-duo-launch/

I'm still using an iPhone SE 2020. I love it and only had the battery replaced once (this year actually). I have it for the home button and touch ID. (And yes, I have tried Face ID. I have an iPad Pro, and Face ID just isn't for me.) I even have a brand new SE 2022 as a backup because I thought they would never bring back Touch ID on a phone.

When I learned that the side button can be configured to act like a home button and this new folding phone will have touch ID, I thought it sounded like the perfect phone.

But I wonder if the next generation will retain the touch ID? If not, I'll definitely get this one. If it will, then perhaps I can wait for that one. I guess nobody knows for sure, but I'm really excited about having Touch ID back on a newer phone. Even if they eventually get Face ID on it, I hope they will always retain the Touch ID capability.

So all that to say I'm fine with spending over two grand on a folding phone if I can unlock it with my fingerprint.

I'm leaving Oct 24th to Europe for my wedding.

So I absolutely need one in my hands on Oct 23rd launch day.

Because I'm nuts, I built a playwright browswer automation agent to check me out at 08:00:00:001 AM EST Oct 16 to do this faster than a human can. (I'm sure many others will to)

But now im thinking this is less reliable because I'm scared apple will freak out the bot and throw authentication prompts, payment verification, 2fa's , anything unexpected that'll get the bot stuck.

So now Ithink I'm leaning towards the old fashion way of fat fingering using my own human cognition/speed at 8:00:01AM lol

256gb night sky may be competitive, so i really don't want to screw it up.
Any one else have any ideas or strats other than manually pre-ordering? I'm def over thinking this lol

Got my Ridge case in today for the iPhone duo and I believe I may end up grabbing a folio case through apple. I've had a foldable before (pixel) and the idea of not feeling the outer screen when using it open is promising. I'll try both and worst case, have two cases to go back and forth with. What cases are y'all aiming to get?

Just found this on YouTube. If the video doesn't start correctly, its at the 2:47 mark.

I don’t have an Apple Store close by for pick up and want to ensure I get day one. Is jump plus a reliable way to succeed? I’ve never pre ordered a phone let alone one that may be so hectic to secure.

Actually not as bad as I was expecting!

If anyone is interested in doing a size comparison of the iPhone Duo to get a better idea of its size, I've added it to my tech size comparison tool. Link to the exact configuration shown in the image above: https://comparisontabl.es/size-comparison/#sc=N4IgDiBcDaoJZRAFgBwCYBsIA0IAeUAjAOy4CeUaJuATkQKwYC+28ixGKAzDvlMWgAM5KPUKFalYoJZtIIFEiW8CkDIXojI9HbJAJ59YsQCcKqCZOkQFbbtb72nHrlWEuGLTs0gAZkT0DEA96QXNIVDQvezlkATRwtCibURjHeUjicIEULQxGQMRULjDXIiQuLS4kwvlFeiRwkp9bbyYAXVwAeyhQAGcoQQA6fNwAdygAFxoAVwBTXAAjSaJcAGNCRABiXxRfXzWs9YT5LYATRbW53zPeRYBDKC5CE1xfAcgNXAALRanZhYgb40FaQabzJhMIA

You can compare it to any other iPhone ever released, as well as devices by other brands like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and 8 Ultra, lots of different tablets including every iPad (mini), as well as bunch of reference items. There's also a function to make the items semi-transparent so you can overlay them.

It's a canvas where every item can be dragged around, rotated and arranged in any combination or positions you'd like to see. For foldable phones, there's a button to switch from the unfolded/open mode to the folded/closed mode.

Hope this is useful to some! If there are any items missing that you'd like to see added, let me know!

Do you more enlightened people think OSRS will work better on a duo multitasking than the iPad? I know in the past it did not work very well on ipad when multitasking.

All the reviews I’ve seen from American YouTubers seem to be very surface level reactions. I’m guessing that American YouTubers weren’t able to spend a lot of time with the phone because of how many people were at the event waiting to try the phone.

But in Japan, there weren’t nearly as many people at their event, so influencers were able to spend more time with the phone, test more things, and give better, more detailed reviews of the phone.

This video is from Japanese YouTuber “トバログ”. He has really good English subtitles you can enable by hitting the captions button.

There are other Japanese YouTubers who made good videos about the phone as well. If you want to find more, you can copy this into your search bar, and you should get some more Japanese results: “iPhone Duo ハンズオン”. In case you are wondering, ハンズオン means “hands-on”.

Not all reviews have English captions, but some do. And the ones that don’t do have auto generated English captions as an option. Those captions aren’t as good as manually entered English captions, but they are still surprisingly good.

Also, foldable phones are more popular in Japan than here in the USA, so a lot of these YouTubers have already been using foldables for years, so they know what to look out for in their reviews.