Apple is already exploring a successor to its inaugural foldable iPhone that’s expected to arrive later this year: a more compact, square, clamshell-style foldable phone.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
The product is far from guaranteed to reach the market. Still, Apple is betting that its first foldable iPhone will be successful enough to generate real demand for the category and that customers will want additional shapes and sizes, much as they have with traditional slab-style iPhones.
It’s also possible that Apple eventually makes a larger, book-style foldable phone. Such a device might fit nicely into its lineup since Apple’s initial foldable design will be smaller than Samsung’s versions — and some customers may want something bigger. The first foldable iPhone is expected to feature an outer display of about 5.5 inches. Personally, I’d like to see that pushed closer to 6.5 inches.
MacDailyNews Take: The 5.5-inch display size for this year’s first foldable iPhone is likely meant to provide contrast: Apple can say, “Look how pocketable this iPhone can be when closed and look how huge it can be when opened!”
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We had flip phones in the 90s, this Apple going backward.
I don’t get it either, but there will be people that buy it. To each their own.
Wow…wait until they stumble upon the rotary model!
Make Cords Cool Again
Nope I seriously doubt Apple will ever make a folding phone again because Apple don’t make niche products and don’t bother with the Vision Pro as it’s a developer tool. Tim cook’s mistake was to not make it clear what the product was intended for something that he has a bit of a history of doing.