Apple iPhone duo release date, pre order starts today: Check features, prices, available date

Apple iPhone Duo pre-orders starts from today. Apple iPhone Duo pre-orders started at 5 am (PT) on Friday. Apple iPhone Duo opens to 7.6-inch screen, and uses Apple's A20 Pro chip. Apple iPhone Duo starts at USD 1,999.

Earlier in September, Apple launched of the iPhone Duo, a folding USD 1,999 iPhone, betting its design and promises of data privacy will let it leap ahead of rivals who have been ​selling folding phones for years.

Apple said the iPhone Duo, available from October 23, features the A20 Pro chip to drive its displays and also a new C2 modem chip designed by Apple, part of its move away from Qualcomm's wireless data chips. Its battery supports 24 hours of mixed dual-screen use and can charge to 50 per cent in about 20 minutes.


Apple iPhone Duo is available at 256 GB variant at USD 1,999, 512 GB at USD 2,199, 1 TB at USD 2,599, and 2 TB at USD 3,199.

Apple iPhone Duo could shake up a category long dominated by Samsung and Chinese companies like Huawei, whose devices have struggled to move beyond a niche audience. Analysts have long said Apple's entry could be the ‌catalyst foldables need, helping bring the form factor into the mainstream much as the company did with smartwatches and wireless earbuds.

The Duo is sized and shaped like a passport, with rounded edges. It opens into a horizontal, 7.6-inch-diagonal (19 cm) screen that also can be viewed vertically. There is a smaller single screen on the front, when the phone is folded. When open, it is Apple's thinnest phone, the company said. However, it is thicker than folding phones offered by Chinese rivals.

Analyst firms such as International Data Corporation expect Apple will sell every foldable iPhone it can produce and secure a 40 per cent share of the lucrative niche by the end of next year.

Executives also showed off the iPhone 18 Pro and the 18 Pro Max handsets that are the latest versions of Apple's well-known line, which do not fold. Pricing for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max starts at $1,199 and $1,299, up $100 from the starting prices ​of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max.