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iPhone Duo Review: Too Much iPhone, Too Little iPad

Apple’s innovative $1,999 folding phone is alluring for plenty of reasons, but comes with the trade-offs of a first-generation product

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Nicole Nguyen | Photography by Sean Havey for WSJ

Oct. 21, 2026 8:03 am ET

185 The iPhone Duo surprised me. After my first hour with it, I went from zero desire for a phone-tablet hybrid to picturing myself living with one. Now, after nearly a week of testing it, I realize I’m not ready for Duo, or maybe Duo isn’t ready for me.

It still needs a generation or two of hardware and software refinements to be the promised jack-of-many-trades device.

Folding phones have been around for over seven years. As is often the case, Apple isn’t the first to the market, but the Duo, which arrives Oct. 23, has some good ideas.…