Samsung's 2026 wide passport-shaped foldable: 201g, 9.7mm, 3,000-nit display, silicon-carbon battery; ranked above the Pixel by 9to5Google.
Apple's iPhone Duo pre-orders showed January 2027 or later on every configuration within an hour of opening, 9to5Google reported. Teams with a foldable rollout before then have to pick a device they can actually get.
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Samsung has reportedly asked suppliers to cut Q4 phone production by 20% to 30%, taking 2026 output from a planned 270 million toward 200 million. Memory prices have climbed far enough that some Galaxy models barely make money, and Samsung would sooner build fewer of them.
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Apple's foldable handles the unfold and scales apps across on its own, so the Duo work a mobile team actually owns narrows to how a layout fills the inner screen and whether a second window of the same app is worth building.
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Google's Googlebook laptops launch with phone integration that needs Android 17 and leaves out Samsung phones, even the newest models. Many Android owners therefore can't use the main reason to choose one until Samsung support arrives.
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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB and runs to $3,199 for 2TB, making it the most expensive iPhone at launch, and it ships on October 23 into a category Samsung has led since 2019.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman does not expect a substantial redesign for the second-generation iPhone Duo. The comparison he reaches for is a MacBook Pro whose shape has been in the lineup since 2021.
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9to5Google published leaked Motorola design sketches only after a wireless charging listing turned up carrying the same Lenovo/Motorola watermark. The sketches describe a bezel-less cover display and a fold with no crease.
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The Verge's hands-on found no hardware first on Apple's foldable and several places it trails Samsung, Oppo and Honor, which leaves the software case resting on a dock that moved to the right edge.
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Apple's foldable ships its own iOS point release, reworked around a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner one. That leaves iOS teams owning the layout questions system-level continuity does not answer.
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MobileSyrup's hands-on with the iPhone Duo describes a phone thicker folded than its rivals and still familiar to hold, with the interesting decisions sitting in iOS layout rules rather than in the hinge. Review units are not out.
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Siri AI reaches US iPhones on the 15th, six days after the Duo was unveiled. Apple has published no date for Europe, where the EU wants rival assistants reading the same emails Siri does, or for China, where an Alibaba-and-Baidu build awaits approval.
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The 30% is one month of company-supplied volume in a category Counterpoint put below 2% of unit sales last year, which makes the switching rate, not the growth rate, the number Apple's $2,100 entry has to justify.
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Gurman says Apple built and tested a shorter Pencil that clipped to the side of its foldable, then dropped it because that edge is where the hinge and your hand already are. That settles how to scope apps for it.
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Samsung has stopped rationing what the Z Flip 8's outer screen can run, which leaves the reviewer at The Verge arguing that the apps behaving badly at 4 inches are what keeps the phone from eating 20 minutes.
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The invite fixes a date for a foldable iPhone and a new chief executive's first keynote. The rumored slate leaves out the volume iPhone, and that is the part rivals should be counting.
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Samsung spent titanium on the hinge and left the dust digit at 4. A ZDNet reviewer left his foldable at home rather than carry it to a beach, which is the more useful review.
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