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New From Apple: Pricey iPhones and a Watch That Eavesdrops

The big phone news, though, was about a device that is kind of not a phone: the iPhone Duo, a $2,000 foldable device that Apple describes as like a “passport.” When closed, it looks like a slightly widened 5.4-inch iPhone; when opened, it expands into a 7.6-inch miniature tablet. Like numerous Android folding devices before it, it relies on a mechanical hinge and a flexible display with a seam (ideally, not prone to failure) in the middle.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-at-apple-pricey-iphones-and-a-watch-that-eavesdrops.html

What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch

It’s finally happening — this week, we are (probably) about to see Apple’s first foldable iPhone, more than five years after Samsung launched its first foldable phone. While the foldable iPhone is most exciting, we’re also anticipating news about AirPods, HomePods, and the non-foldable iPhone 18 line.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/07/what-we-expect-from-the-upcoming-apple-launch/

Apple’s foldable iPad could be like ‘two iPad Pros side-by-side’

Gurman says a foldable iPhone is still in the works, though he doesn’t expect that “before 2026 at the earliest,” as other rumors have said. He also says information from his sources lines up with an alleged Apple internal display roadmap that made the rounds recently, tipping the 18.8-inch foldable iPad and Apple’s plans to release OLED MacBook Pros in 2026, followed by a MacBook Air OLED update in 2027.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/15/24321659/apple-foldable-18-8-inch-ipad-invisible-crease-rumor

Huawei’s $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use

“It’s a piece of work that everyone has thought of but never managed to create,” Richard Yu, Huawei’s consumer group chairman, said during the Mate XT livestream unveiling. “I have always had a dream to put our tablet in my pocket, and we did it.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/forget-everything-huawei-is-doing-two-folds-on-the-mate-xt-ultimate/

Google announces the Pixel Fold

We had expected to see it last year, but the Fold didn’t make the cut for I/O in 2022, and rumors about its launch haven’t slowed down in the year since. Google has focused on teaching Android developers to make their apps work on foldable devices and larger screens, which may pay off next week with the launch of this device and the new Pixel Tablet.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/4/23711353/google-pixel-fold-announced