{"id":385716,"date":"2026-04-07T03:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:41:10","slug":"foldable-iphone-hits-engineering-snags-shipment-delays-possible-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385716\/","title":{"rendered":"Foldable iPhone hits engineering snags, shipment delays possible: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/supply-chain\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supply Chain<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">April-May &#8216;extremely critical&#8217; period for Apple to resolve issues in time<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260406 Apple store\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A women uses an iPhone mobile device as she passes a lighted Apple logo at the Apple store at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on\u00a0April 14, 2023. The company&#8217;s long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market\u00a0is encountering some engineering testing issues, Nikkei Asia has learned. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>LAULY LI and CHENG TING-FANG<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TAIPEI &#8212; Apple is encountering setbacks in the engineering test phase of its first ever foldable iPhone, which could lead to delays in its mass production and product shipment schedule, Nikkei Asia has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supply Chain April-May &#8216;extremely critical&#8217; period for Apple to resolve issues in time A women uses an iPhone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28027,7795,7711,462,61,4178,60,144972,16544,171619,33558,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-385716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-delays","9":"tag-engineering","10":"tag-foldable","11":"tag-hits","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-iphone","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-possible","16":"tag-shipment","17":"tag-snags","18":"tag-sources","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}