{"id":624558,"date":"2026-09-23T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624558\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:18:14","slug":"apples-new-iphone-duo-is-packed-with-design-nerd-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624558\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s New iPhone Duo Is Packed with Design-Nerd Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

To understand the iPhone Duo and its ability to turn sceptics into believers, you could do a whole lot worse than crib from the wisdom of Jay-Z<\/a>. Sure, Steve Jobs was a noted fan of Picasso\u2019s \u201cgood artists copy, great artists steal\u201d. In this case, Hov called it better with \u201cyou made it a hot line, I made it a hot song\u201d.<\/p>\n

The point? Folding phones have been around for almost eight years now. A few of them are seriously accomplished devices in their own right. None have the ability to blow up your timeline, bag a spot on the News At Ten and compel a succession of distant acquaintances to slide into my DMs asking some variation of, \u201cSo do I have to spend $2,000 on an iPhone now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Until the Duo\u2019s 23 October release date, I can\u2019t give you a definitive answer to that question. Having spent a good few hours last week with Apple\u2019s first foldable and the people who made it, I\u2019ve got a pretty good idea of why this device is already a phenomenon. \u201cThis is why we do what we do,\u201d says Apple CEO, John Ternus. \u201cIt\u2019s really special because it provided an opportunity to just think all-new.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>Made like a notebook<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve reviewed a lot of new tech over the past decade or so, and the ideas that tend to stick are almost always some variation on a theme you\u2019re already familiar with. That\u2019s why the Apple Watch<\/a> managed to usurp a vast swathe of Casios and G-Shocks overnight, while the Vision Pro<\/a> has struggled to convince folks that strapping a computer to your face is something worth doing on the regular. So rather than emulate the existing, widely-held aesthetic for foldables\u2014tall and thin for as big an inner screen as possible\u2014Molly Anderson, VP of Industrial Design at Apple, sought to lean on a more traditional form factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone knows what a notebook feels like in the pocket and what it feels like to carry around,\u201d she says. \u201cSo that was a big part of the inspiration: \u2018How do you get to something that gives you space but also feels compact?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

If you want to get technical, the Duo\u2019s proportions are derived from the international A-Series paper system, so that they remain the same when opened and closed, helping to deliver the thinnest-ever iPhone. And while I\u2019m not sure that its curved titanium frame will hold up to the same abuse as your average Moleskine, there\u2019s an undeniable tactility to this phone that feels intuitive (so long as you hold it right-handed). That sensation is only elevated by a Duo-specific version of iOS that existing iPhone owners can grasp from the off. Even when splitting apps across screens and half-opening it into an alarm clock mode \u2013 the whole operating system dynamically adjusts to how the phone is shaped in your hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To understand the iPhone Duo and its ability to turn sceptics into believers, you could do a whole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[670,85,46,321,9015,125],"class_list":["post-624558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-phones","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}