US technology major Apple, which is celebrating 50th anniversary, on Wednesday (September 9) pulled the wraps off the much awaited iPhone Duo, the company’s first-ever smartphone with a foldable display.As rumoure, the i…

US technology major Apple, which is celebrating 50th anniversary, on Wednesday (September 9) pulled the wraps off the much awaited iPhone Duo, the company’s first-ever smartphone with a foldable display.As rumoure, the iPhone Fold comes in mini pocket book-style design, resembling a thick Passport and the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 (review) with meaningful cosmetic changes.@import url(‘https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playfair+Display:wght@700&family=Roboto+Slab:wght@400&display=swap’);
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}Quick summary – click for full detailsConcise summary of key highlightsApple unveils iPhone Duo, company’s first-ever foldable mobileIn one lineApple unveils its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, featuring a dual-display design and advanced durability.Key points• First foldable iPhoneApple introduces the iPhone Duo, its inaugural foldable smartphone with a 5.4-inch cover display and 7.6-inch inner display, marking a significant shift in design.• Premium build qualityThe device boasts a scratch-resistant nano-textured cover layer, titanium hinge, Ceramic Shield 2 front protection, and an IP68 rating for water and dust resistance.• High-performance chipsetPowered by the 2nm class A20 Pro chip, offering up to 20% faster CPU, 40% faster GPU, and 2x Neural Engine compute power, alongside all-day battery life.• Advanced camera systemFeatures a 48MP Fusion Main camera with 2x optical-quality telephoto, 48MP ultra-wide lens, and Centre Stage front camera for enhanced photography and videography.• iOS 27 optimisationThe new OS is tailored for foldable displays, supporting multitasking, Split View, StandBy mode, and Apple Intelligence for AI-driven features.Key statistics5.4-inch cover display, 7.6-inch inner displayDisplay sizesAll-day battery lifeBattery life20% faster CPU, 40% faster GPUChipset performance48MP Fusion Main cameraCamera resolutionRs 2,99,900Price starting pointProcessed with AI. Reviewed by DH Digital Team.It sports a wide 5.4-inch cover display panel with :1.4 aspect ratio and when unfurled, opens to a large 7.6-inch screen (same aspect ratio as the front pabel), a tad smaller than the iPad mini. The Super Retina XDR display is 50 per cent larger than the iPhone 18 Pro Max.The displays also feature ProMotion, Always On, and 3000 nits of peak outdoor brightness. Later this year, iPhone Duo will support Apple Pencil with USB-C, allowing users to take notes, sketch, or mark up documents on either display.Apple launches Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 with advanced health tracking capabilitiesAlso, it features smaller FaceTime camera and most importantly, Apple, with the use of software optimisation has masked the camera on inner display, which ensures there is no obstruction while watching multimedia content.Another notable aspect of the advanced, flexible OLED panel is that there is no noticeable crease in the middle. Also, the foldable iPhone is one of the thinnest in the industry. It measures just a 5.2mm thickness, thinner than the iPhone Air (5.6mm) and when folded, it is 11.3mm in thickness. It weighs just 254g.“iPhone Duo is the most transformational change to iPhone since the original. With an entirely new design and intuitive experiences, it shows what’s possible when hardware and software are engineered together and redefines what it means to use a foldable phone,” said John Ternus, Apple’s CEO. “With the largest display ever on iPhone that still fits easily in your pocket, combined with the power of A20 Pro, iPhone Duo helps you stay more immersed and productive wherever you go, whether you’re enjoying content, multitasking across apps, or gaming,” Ternus added.Apple iPhone Duo.The iPhone Duo comes with super sturdy hinge made from grade 5 titanium. It has a mirror-polished finish and a 3D-printed hinge cover with a contrasting micro-blasted finish. While, Ceramic Shield protects the back of iPhone Duo, the Ceramic Shield 2 safeguards the front , which has 3x better scratch resistance than the previous generation. The iPhone Duo is also splash-, water-, and dust-resistant with an IP68 rating.Apple noted that the hinge is engineered from more than 100 components to precisely control opening and closing and support the centre of the display, delivering a smooth, tactile feel. Internally, support ribs reinforce the structure for added stiffness, while antenna splits with ceramic fibre inserts enhance the frame’s rigidity.Key features of Apple iPhone Duo.The inner display is designed to withstand the wear of everyday use. A scratch-resistant coating and a nano-textured cover layer — made from a custom polymer with up to 40 percent higher stiffness than other materials used in the industry — protect the surface. High-strength glass sits above and below the folding display panel, with custom adhesives that allow the layers to glide past one another like the pages of a book, relieving bend stress, and a titanium plate at the bottom further enhances durability.However, due to design limitations, Apple has ditched the Face ID sensor and has brought back the iconic Touch ID security feature to the iPhone.At the heart, Apple has incorporated a 2nm class A20 Pro, touted to be the fastest chipset on a phone date. It promises a significant performance boost and also deliver all-day battery life.It promises a 35 percent better sustained performance than the A19 Pro seen inside the iPhone 17 Pro. Taking inspiration from M-series Apple silicon, A20 Pro is backed by custom vapour chamber, which promises to efficiently dissipate heat performing multitasking, gaming, and complex AI workloads. Apple iPhone Duo.Also, there is a new display engine the drives the inner and outer displays simultaneously and enables a fluid experience as users transition between them. The 6-core CPU is up to 20 percent faster than A19 Pro, delivering the fastest CPU in a smartphone; the 7-core GPU is up to 40 percent faster and more power efficient; and the new Dual 16-core Neural Engine offers 2x the compute power to run on-device AI models. A20 Pro also delivers 50 percent more unified memory bandwidth. The iPhone Duo boasts of dual-camera module featuring the new 48MP Fusion Main camera. It can capture photos at up to 48MP resolution with zero shutter lag; also take in the 24MP default with good image quality at a file size perfect for sharing, and get closer to the subject with an integrated optical-quality 2x Telephoto. The 48MP Fusion Main camera also benefits from a new computational image technology for sharp details, and promises to get clear pictures in low light thanks to a large sensor, fast aperture, and sensor-shift optical image stabilisation.Apple iPhone Duo. It is backed by 48MP ultra-wide sensor. It can capture wider fields of view and enables macro photography, while the Center Stage front camera can automatically take photos and videos in any orientation, so users don’t have to rotate iPhone for landscape selfies. Upgraded Photographic Styles with new texture and grain controls let users further dial in their desired appearance and have more creative control over their photos.5 Under the inner display, a new FaceTime camera helps users connect with friends and family whether iPhone Duo is held open or propped on a surface for hands-free calls.The iPhone Duo runs iOS 27 out-of-the-box and is fully optimised to make full use of the new foldable form factor, seamlessly transition between cover screen and the expansive inner display.First up, the Lock Screen controls, the Dock on the Home Screen, and app navigation and controls now appear on the side to maximise vertical space for content. Apple unveils new generation AirPods 5 with better ANC When iPhone Duo is open, the display shows two Home Screen pages with Today View — a vertically scrolling list of customisable widgets — on the left. The status bar includes a circular, flexible system that nestles into the corner of the screen, showing relevant information like Wi-Fi, cellular strength, battery, and more. The Dynamic Island is also redesigned to fit vertically on the side of the outer and inner displays, and expands to show Live Activities and alerts. iOS seamlessly adapts to the new ways to use iPhone Duo — content reacts as it folds, reorients when turned to the side, and switches to the appropriate display when flipped over.Apple apps are optimised for iPhone Duo, and app developers have been offered tools, APIs in the latest SDKs, and Device Hub in Xcode to make their apps support new UI. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra Review: Refined with features that truly add valueAlready, third-party apps, including Netflix, Zoom, and Slack, are already taking advantage of the folding design to deliver immersive experiences that make the most of the larger display and new ways to use iPhone Duo.The expansive display supports multitasking capabilities including the Split View, which allows users to open two apps side by side on iPhone for the first time. Users can also quickly swap between apps; open two windows of the same app, like Safari; easily have a conversation with Siri AI while looking at content on the other side of the screen; and save pairs of apps to come back to later.The StandBy feature gets a major upgrade on iPhone Duo. Set iPhone Duo down and it enters StandBy on either the outer or inner display — even when it’s not charging — turning the device into a photo frame, hub for widgets, clock, and more. New Calendar and Weather faces join existing Clock and Modular faces, while the Photos face is updated to display Shared Albums. Every face now offers deeper customisation, with new colours, fonts, and complications to choose from.Besides the improved Liquid Glass UI, the iOS 27 brings entirely new version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence. It promises to offer more personal, capable, and conversational. Both models will bring powerful AI capabilities together with personal context to become an intelligent personal hub with privacy and security at its core.Apple iPhone Duo.The new Siri AI can draw on personal context understanding to help users find what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and more; owners can use onscreen awareness to take action related to the content on the screen; and answer questions about virtually any topic. Siri mode in the Camera app allows users to get information and take action on what’s in front of them, and users can write with Siri by simply describing what they needAdditionally, Apple Intelligence makes apps smarter and more useful. Users can improve the composition of a photo after it’s been taken with Spatial Reframing, Extend, and upgraded Clean Up. And now Image Playground offers photorealistic imagery. In Safari, Notify Me helps users monitor web pages for changes, like product restocks or price drops, and stay on top of updates. To protect users’ privacy, Apple Intelligence uses on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of iPhone into the cloud.However, the new Siri AI will be available as Beta in limited regions in multiple languages including English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese, and Korean.The new Phone Duo is available in star white and night sky, and starts at Rs 2,99,900 in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB storage capacities. It will be available for pre-order on October 23 and hit stores on October 30 in India.Apple A20 Pro-powered iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max with big camera upgrades launchedGet the latest news on new launches, gadget reviews, apps, cybersecurity, and more on personal technology only on DH Tech.

Source: Deccan Herald