{"id":804621,"date":"2026-10-16T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804621\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:58:09","slug":"iphone-duo-orders-are-already-delayed-into-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804621\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Duo orders are already delayed into 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Delivery estimates for the iPhone Duo slipped into next year in less than an hour after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/988582\/apple-iphone-duo-preorder-buy-foldable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple opened preorders<\/a> for it at 8AM ET on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">At the time of writing we are seeing late January delivery dates for every configuration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/buy-iphone\/iphone-duo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Apple\u2019s website<\/a>. The foldable is slated to launch in stores on October 23rd, and Apple typically reserves some units for in-store availability. So while online orders are delayed, you might be able to get one sooner in-person at an Apple Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The long delay could be due to high demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/993300\/iphone-duo-hardware-software-android-samsung-oppo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple\u2019s first foldable iPhone<\/a>, low supply on Apple\u2019s side, or a mix of both. Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/991203\/iphone-duo-foldable-news-specs-price-release-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the iPhone Duo<\/a> in September, featuring the shorter passport-style design <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/972387\/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung introduced<\/a> earlier this year. The Duo starts at $1,999 for the 256GB model and comes in \u201cstar white\u201d and \u201cnight sky.\u201d You can still preorder it on Apple\u2019s website, but you might be in for a long wait before you get to unfold it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivery estimates for the iPhone Duo slipped into next year in less than an hour after Apple opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[304,59,641,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-gb","tag-iphone","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804621","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=804621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}