{"id":198431,"date":"2025-10-14T02:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198431\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:21:08","slug":"apple-found-a-way-to-make-the-iphone-folds-hinge-much-cheaper-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198431\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple found a way to make the iPhone Fold&#8217;s hinge much cheaper than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is widely expected to release its first foldable smartphone next year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_fold_5g-13804.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Fold<\/a>&#8216;s hinge is now rumored to be much cheaper than previously anticipated, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst who&#8217;s always been very well connected with Apple&#8217;s supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>He says the hinge is now expected to be about $70 to $80 cheaper than &#8220;the market&#8217;s expectation&#8221;. 65% of the hinges Apple needs will be manufactured by a joint venture between Foxconn and Shin Zu Shing, the other 35% by Amphenol. Sometime &#8220;after 2027&#8221;, Luxshare-ICT could join Apple&#8217;s hinge supply chain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760408468_947_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Apple found a way to make the iPhone Fold's hinge much cheaper than expected\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The reduction in the hinge&#8217;s cost will let Apple make more money on each iPhone Fold it sells, since the other option is lowering its price which we all know won&#8217;t happen. The hinge price decline is &#8220;primarily driven by assembly design optimization by Foxconn&#8221;, Kuo says.<\/p>\n<p>The possible addition of Luxshare-ICT as a hinge supplier is said to imply that costs have further room to decline, as well as the fact that the hinge is quickly becoming &#8220;a new battleground for system assemblers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mingchikuo.craft.me\/mnbyfW1xgQZ5ia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is widely expected to release its first foldable smartphone next year. The iPhone Fold&#8216;s hinge is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-198431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}