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Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks

www.ibtimes.co.uk Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks

Apple's rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.

Apple's rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.

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Haha wtf? Give me a new iPhone Mini instead please 😂
- People didn't buy the last mini, so why would Apple do it again?
  
  https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter/
  
  Dozens of us did! 😁
- I would love a new iPhone with the same size as the first iPhone SE
Should be called iPhold
Just skip this idea. No one wants this.
- Apple fans will buy whatever Apple makes them want.
- I’d buy this in a heartbeat lol
  
  But why?
- Bin this and bring back the mini so we can have a proper small form factor phone
  
  If the foldable is the form factor of a mini, how would that go over?
- Speak for yourself... I'm hoping google comes out with a flip phone Pixel. If I was an iPhone person this is exactly what I'd be hoping for.
  
  I want a phone that folds up to be smaller than a normal phone so I don't have to have giant bricks in my pocket.
  
  I'd gladly trade-in my 8pro for a foldable pixel, even though I don't want to change phones often...
  
  As an iPhone user, hard pass
- I love the idea of it but I have to agree, it's just less repairable and causes even more e-waste. Smartphone advancement is at a point where we could easily be using the same device for at least 8 years, but not if they come with planned obsolescence as a feature.
  
  Let us change the battery...it's the major reason why phones feel 'slow' as they age.
- I have the Samsung foldable (flip 4). It's a nice gimmic, but does apple really want to force app developers to support yet another form factor? That's supposedly one of the draws of apple development: you don't have to support every random screen size made by some third party.
Imagine what they're going to charge? Lmao

$2999 + $499 for a bendable case
Of all the foldable clamshell is the worst, doubling the width of your phone to save a few cm of height is so useless.

If it’s gotta be a folding phone make it fold out into an iPad.
- "a few" ... it literally cuts the length in half. For me personally, something like this is much desired. Having a 3x3x.5" block vs a 6x3x.25" block would be a major improvement.
  
  But now it’s twice as thick
- My thoughts exactly. I gain almost nothing with this design change, as compared to keeping the current or similar-to “bar” form and folding out from there.
  
  I’m starting to have visions of Zoolander and his ridiculously small cell phone..
Fuck no.
Fuck all the way off with this idea
Apple always the trail blazer....

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