{"id":403280,"date":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403280\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:14:08","slug":"apple-is-already-thinking-about-its-second-foldable-iphone-and-it-may-be-a-clamshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403280\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is already thinking about its second foldable iPhone, and it may be a clamshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may not have a concrete release date for the first foldable iPhone<\/a>, but Apple may already be looking into a smaller device that will follow it up. According to Bloomberg<\/a>‘s Mark Gurman, Apple is exploring a “square, clamshell-style foldable phone,” with the caveat that this potential device is “far from guaranteed to reach the market” and only “under consideration” right now.<\/p>\n

If this eventually leads to a smaller foldable iPhone, that means Apple believes it can compete against existing options on the market, including Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z Flip 7<\/a> and Motorola’s revamped Razr foldable<\/a>. Gurman’s report also signaled that Apple may be very optimistic about the success of its first foldable iPhone<\/a>, which is rumored to be released sometime later this year, and wants to have follow-up plans ready to capitalize on the potential demand generated.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time that we’ve heard of a clamshell foldable iPhone<\/a>, since a previous report from The Information revealed that Apple created prototypes in this form factor. On the other end of the spectrum, Gurman’s Power On newsletter mentioned that Apple is considering a larger foldable that opens like a book. Previously, Gurman said that Apple considered a foldable that’s more akin to the size of an iPad. However, the company ran into issues developing such a large device and may be delaying a potential launch<\/a> to 2029, according to Gurman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We may not have a concrete release date for the first foldable iPhone, but Apple may already be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[304,150596,59,7085,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-403280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-foldable-phone","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-mark-gurman","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403280","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=403280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}