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Here’s where you can preorder Apple’s first foldable phone, along with the carrier deals available so far.

Foldables have spent years balancing thinner profiles with flagship-grade SoCs and the resulting thermal dilemma. When unfolded, you have a large surface area that is great for thermal dissipation, but when folded, you create a thermal sandwich that suddenly has to work with only half the surface area. Apple appears to have solved this on…

September was a big month for Apple, and not just because of the launch of the iPhone 18 series. It also marked Apple’s debut in the foldable market, as the Cupertino-based firm announced the iPhone Duo. Although the announcement was made on the same day as the iPhone 18 series, availability is starting a month…

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Following Samsung’s lead, another tech giant appears ready to launch a new widescreen foldable, and this one has some serious history behind it. Apple’s iPhone Duo marks that company’s entry into the foldable market, but Motorola isn’t really entering the market. The company has long made clamshell foldables, and after expanding into the book-style market…

Android foldables have spent years getting the hardware right, but the app problem has been much harder to shake. Apple’s arrival with the iPhone Duo could finally give developers another reason to take foldable layouts seriously, and Google’s Android boss thinks Android users could benefit too.

Samsung has addressed growing concerns over the folding screen on its latest Galaxy Z Fold 8 flagship, confirming that the noticeable “give” or flex in the corners of the panel is an intentional design choice rather than a manufacturing defect. The clarification follows widespread user reports indicating that some Galaxy Z Fold 8 inner screens…

Xiaomi has jumped into the wide-screen foldable race with an impressive contender. By •