iphone duo

no face id, no haptic feedback, and no earpiece speaker for regular phone calls.

so you are either on speakerphone in public like an asshole or carrying airpods everywhere.

the price is going to be duo too, so i guess it makes sense.

the foldable iphone is expected to start at around $2,000 in the u.s.

apparently it will also support apple pencil and come in dark blue and white.

after the orange iphone 17 pro max, looks like rich people just found their next fetish object.

making a foldable phone and not calling it ifold is a complete lack of vision.

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apple's second foldable phone after the iphone 6 :)

even with the best software in the world, a decent midrange camera will still take better photos than any phone you can fit in your pocket.

sensor size, lens size, optics, light gathering ability, all of that matters. software can compensate for a lot, but it cannot repeal physics.

the same thing applies to foldable phones. if a display is being bent over and over again, there is no realistic way for that section to remain completely unaffected forever.

folding the same screen hundreds of thousands of times in a controlled lab and saying, "see, no crease, problem solved," does not mean much in real life. people drop phones, sit on them, expose them to heat, cold, dust, pressure, uneven folds, and a thousand other variables that do not exist in a durability test.

and i say all of this as someone who does not even use an iphone.

the reason this stuff annoys me is that there are only a handful of companies on earth with basically unlimited research and development budgets.

instead of spending all that money figuring out how to make a phone fold in half, maybe improve battery technology enough that i can charge my phone once and use it for several days.

but apparently that is not flashy enough.

the new phone has to look obviously new when someone takes a mirror selfie with it.

samsung responded: image
https://x.com/...ileUS/status/2097748103478591990

my personal take is that a phone without face id already feels like a downgrade.

i'm sure apple will refine the hardware and software over the next year or two and turn it into a much more polished device, but i have no interest in being an early tester.

i also don't feel like i need a foldable phone, so i'm not convinced i want such a radically different user experience in the first place.

my dad always says the more features a machine has, the more things there are to age, fail, and break.

i’ve pretty much applied that logic to everything i own, and so far it has saved both me and my wallet a lot of trouble.

i’m sticking with it.