The strongest argument against buying a first-generation product is usually the roadmap, and the iPhone Duo has one. Apple has dated Apple Pencil support to later in 2026, the developer tools for the fold to later this month, and five more Siri AI languages to October, which means the phone that arrives on October 23…
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iPhone Duo Has No Reviews Yet: Which of Apple's Numbers You Can Check, and Which Need Time
Nobody outside Apple has used an iPhone Duo, so every number attached to Apple’s first foldable is Apple’s own. That does not make the numbers useless, but it does mean a buyer has to sort them, because some are measurements anyone can confirm on October 23 and some are claims with no published test behind…
Can an iPhone Duo Replace a Small Tablet? Apple Never Makes That Comparison
Apple’s published case for carrying one iPhone Duo instead of a phone and a small tablet comes down to four figures: a 7.6-inch inner display it calls 50 percent larger than the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s, a body 5.2 mm thick open and 11.3 mm closed, a weight of 254 g, and Apple Pencil (USB-C)…
iPhone Duo's Rear Cameras Read Like the iPhone 17's, Not the iPhone 18 Pro's
Line up Apple’s spec pages for its 2026 iPhones and the iPhone Duo’s rear cameras do not sit next to the iPhone 18 Pro’s. They sit next to the iPhone 17’s: a 48MP main camera at 26 mm and f/1.6, a 48MP Ultra Wide at 13 mm and f/2.2, and a 12MP 2x crop at…
iPhone Duo Budget: The Four Costs Apple Has Not Priced Before You Pay $1,999
Apple has published the price of the iPhone Duo, its two cases, two ways to pay for it and the three months of Apple One that come with it. It has not published what AppleCare+ costs on this phone, what any repair to it costs, what a carrier will offer for it, or what your…
iPhone Duo Storage Costs the Same as iPhone 18 Pro Max Storage: How to Configure a $1,999 Fold
iPhone Duo costs exactly $700 more than an iPhone 18 Pro Max at every storage tier, and every storage step costs exactly what the same step costs on the Pro and Pro Max: $200 to reach 512GB, another $400 for 1TB, another $600 for 2TB. Apple has priced the fold as a flat surcharge and…
iPhone Duo Arrives Five Weeks After the iPhone 18 Pro: What That Gap Is Worth to a Buyer
Apple’s first foldable pre-orders on Friday, October 16 and ships on Friday, October 23, exactly five weeks after the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max reach buyers on September 18. For anyone weighing a first-generation fold, that gap is the most useful thing about the launch, because most of what sits inside an iPhone Duo…
iPhone 18 Pro Cameras: Apple Took Four Years to Get Every Rear Lens to 48MP
All three rear cameras on the iPhone 18 Pro are 48MP, and Apple took four years to get there. The first 48MP sensor arrived on the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, the Ultra Wide followed in 2024, and the telephoto only caught up last year. The 48MP main camera was the…
iPhone 18 Pro Carbon Figures: One Storage Step Costs More Than Moving Up to the Pro Max
Apple gives every iPhone 18 Pro configuration its own carbon figure, and read side by side they say something the price list does not: choosing more storage adds more emissions than choosing the bigger phone. A storage step adds 9 kg of CO2e on the 6.3-inch Pro, while moving to the 6.9-inch Pro Max at…
iPhone 18 Pro Thickness: 8.75 mm Against iPhone 17, iPhone Air and a Folded iPhone Duo
Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes are 8.75 mm deep, the same depth Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. That makes the new Pro thicker than the 7.95 mm iPhone 17, well thicker than the 5.64 mm iPhone Air, and thinner than the 11.3 mm an iPhone Duo measures when it…
tvOS 27 Is the Only Apple Update With No Date and No Device List
Apple has published no release date for tvOS 27 and no list of Apple TV models that can install it, even though the software reached release candidate on September 9 with build 24J360. The five other operating systems from the same wave all arrive on Monday, September 14. iOS 27 is dated for Monday, September…
iPhone 18 Pro Wireless Charging: 25W Is a Third-Year Ceiling, and Qi2 Only Caught Up Last Year
The iPhone 18 Pro charges at up to 25W on MagSafe and up to 25W on Qi2, which is exactly what Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro before it. The wireless ceiling on a Pro iPhone has not moved for three generations. Both iPhone 18 Pro models share the…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage History: The 128GB Pro Is Gone and the Ceiling Has Doubled to 2TB
The iPhone 18 Pro is sold in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB, and there is no smaller option. Four Pro generations in a row, from the iPhone 13 Pro to the iPhone 16 Pro, started at 128GB, and only one iPhone before this year had a 2TB tier at all. Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes…
AirPods 5 Are Rated IP57, and Apple Publishes No Depth, Duration or Standard
AirPods 5 are rated IP57, up from IP54 on AirPods 4, and that is the entire published statement. Apple’s tech specs page gives the rating one line in a row labelled water and sweat, with no depth, no duration, no test standard named and no separate line for the charging case. AirPods 5 move from…
iPhone 18 Pro Ultra Wide: f/2.2 for a Fifth Straight Year, and the f/1.8 Apple Never Brought Back
Apple’s tech specs page lists the iPhone 18 Pro Ultra Wide as a 48MP Fusion camera at 13 mm and f/2.2 with a 120-degree field of view. That f/2.2 has been the Pro Ultra Wide figure every year since the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, and the brightest Ultra Wide Apple has ever published for…
iPhone 18 Pro at 211 g: The Small Pro Has Gained 24 Grams Since the Titanium iPhone 15 Pro
The iPhone 18 Pro weighs 211 grams, or 7.44 ounces, on Apple’s tech specs page, which makes it the heaviest 6.1-inch or 6.3-inch Pro iPhone Apple has published a figure for. It carries 24 grams more than the 187 gram iPhone 15 Pro, the model that introduced the titanium frame in 2023. All four iPhone…
AirPods 5 Come With No Ear Tips: What Open-Ear Noise Cancellation Has to Work Around
AirPods 5 are the first open-ear AirPods with Active Noise Cancellation at this level, and the box contains no ear tips. Apple lists the contents as the earbuds, a charging case and documentation. AirPods Pro 3, by contrast, ship with five silicone tip sizes. AirPods 5 keep the AirPods 4 shell, 30.2 x 18.3 x…
AirPods 5 Noise Cancellation Has No Decibel Figure: Every Number Apple Publishes Instead
Apple publishes no decibel figure for AirPods 5 noise cancellation. It publishes no frequency range, no attenuation curve, no test method and no noise source. The only number attached to the cancellation itself is a comparison: up to 1.5x more than AirPods 4 with ANC, or up to 50 percent more noise removed, depending on…
iPhone 18 Pro Display Resolution: 2622 x 1206 for a Third Generation, and 460 ppi Across the Lineup
The iPhone 18 Pro display is 2622 x 1206 at 460 pixels per inch, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max is 2868 x 1320 at the same 460 ppi. Neither set of numbers is new. Both carry over from the iPhone 17 Pro generation, and the 6.3-inch figures go back to the iPhone 16 Pro.…
AirPods 5 ANC: Why Apple's '50 Percent More Noise' and '1.5x More ANC' Are Not the Same Sentence
Apple describes the AirPods 5 noise cancellation gain twice, in two different ways. The press release says the earbuds remove up to 50 percent more noise compared to AirPods 4 with ANC. The product page says up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation. The arithmetic matches. The precision does not. AirPods…
AirPods 5 Noise Cancellation: Apple's 'Industry's Best' Claim Stops at Open-Ear Designs
Apple’s press release for AirPods 5 is headlined “Apple introduces AirPods 5 with best-in-class open-ear Active Noise Cancellation,” and the product page states the same thing as “the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design.” The superlative is real, and it is fenced in by five words: in an open-ear design. AirPods 5…
iPhone Duo Camera Specs Apple Has Not Published: ProRes, Sensor Size and Seven More
Apple has published an unusually detailed camera list for the iPhone Duo, down to focal lengths, apertures and slow-motion frame rates. Nine specifications that appear on the iPhone 18 Pro’s pages, or that buyers routinely ask about, are absent from it. The 48MP Fusion main camera. Apple publishes no sensor or pixel size for it.…
iPhone Duo's Camera Control Button: Siri Camera Mode, and Five Things Apple Left Out
Apple’s iPhone Duo press release contains one sentence about the phone’s shutter hardware: there is a Camera Control button, and it has a Siri Camera mode. That is the whole of what Apple has published about it, and everything else a buyer would want to know about the button is missing. The 48MP Fusion main…
iPhone Duo's 48MP Ultra Wide: 13 mm, f/2.2, 120 Degrees and 48MP Macro
The iPhone Duo’s second rear lens is a 48MP Ultra Wide at 13 mm and f/2.2 with a 120-degree field of view, and Apple says it matches the iPhone 18 Pro’s Ultra Wide. Apple’s specs also credit it with 48MP macro, which makes it the only camera on the phone that shoots both the widest…