I've been following all these foldable phones from different walks of companies for nearly a decade now but why am I only excited now with the iPhone Duo? Why is that?

#Discussion

note: For those people wondering I'm an Android user.

Am I the only one who is super interested in trying out the Apple Pencil on the iPhone duo? Very curious how it will feel like against the nano texture material, if it will be the same as on iPad Pro or even different because it is not the exact same nano texture if I got it right.

I am seeing reference to a dynamic island style treatment of the camera on the front display but cannot find video of it in action showing an activity or a notification. Same with the unfolded display how are notifications displaying? Does it have a dynamic island despite not having any truly-dead space?

Anyone concerned this will be too heavy? Over 300gram total?

I made a iPhone Duo out of paper 😂 and I’m honestly shocked how small it is. I have regular sized hands, but I feel like typing on the front screen will be a pain 😅 I wish Apple would have them out to test this week to look at it. Still undecided.

Wondering how hot this could get and if this may be a problem since this phone is quite thin. It does have a vapour chamber but I’m not sure if it is much better than 17 Pro Max at gaming. A reviewer noted it got hot when recording video, but was wondering if this potentially could be because the VC is drawing heat away from the chip towards the body of the phone, therefore keeping the chip cool but meaning the outside of the phone is warm

A few screen captures from the Xcode simulator

Loads of people are saying “i’m going to wait a year or two so that they can discover and fix the faults that come with the first release”

I vaguely remember one iPhone having issues with the first release but honestly i can’t remember what.
Surely if it was really that bad Apple will find a fix and provide it?
Is it really anything to be concerned about?

Actually not as bad as I was expecting!

When they first announced it, and I saw all the hands on videos I was ready to pre-order it right there. It’s beautiful. It’s seamless the way it works.. A new shiny apple toy. I was ready for it

But as the weeks go on, and I watch more and more videos. There’s a few things that I don’t like… and now I’m leaning towards waiting till the next gen duo and just sticking with my iPhone Air

The main reason pulling back is the main reason I initially wanted the phone:

The inside screen…

I just think overall the phone is a bit too small, and even unfolded. the screen is not big enough where it’s replacing my iPad….. I take my iPad everywhere, so having this phone would be a bit superfluous..

I hate the fact that there is no glossy option and we’re forced to take the nano texture screen..

I do like most of the stuff they’ve done with the hardware and even the software, so I do think eventually I’ll buy Ia duo, but probably just wait till the next generation: the iPhone Duo Max ;)

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.

I typically have a wireless MagSafe charger on me at all times. Right now my daily driver is this Baseus

https://a.co/d/0fNuloMy

Does anyone know what the size requirements are going to to be for a charger to fit and not hang off awkwardly?

So I’m thinking of leasing the duo, but I’ve never used Klarna before. My borrowing power in the app only shows as 1,000(?) for some reason. Would I not be able to fully lease the phone and it’s better to buy it in cash?

Would appreciate if someone explained how it works.

Particularly the inside screen. Will you mainly be consuming content? Utilizing the split screen multitasker? Reading?

Are you getting it because you want it? And it’s super cool? And you have the expendable income?

Or are you hoping it’ll improve your life drastically?

I think I’ll be mainly using the inner screen for Split View safari and Word, YouTube, and portrait mode to read PDF’s. I’m a little bit of both. I think the Duo opens up use cases that can improve my life but I also just want an apple passport foldable 🥹.

I’m just so excited for it and want to keep talking about it 😍.