Is the iPhone Duo for you?

Inquirer.net - Oct 28, 2026

To review the iPhone Duo is like asking how someone’s eighth can be another person’s first. This isn’t a review (yet). It is a collection of feelings from using the new iPhone Duo for the past 12 hours. This is not my first foray with foldables. When I first held foldables from predecessors I remember

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