Weekly poll: will you buy the iPhone Duo? What about the iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max?
Years of rumors can finally be put to rest – Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, earlier this week. It’s not a cheap phone – here’s the pricing breakdown. That said, its starting price of $2,000 / £2,000 / €2,300 / ₹300,000 is quite close to the Z Fold8’s price of $1,900 / £1,700 / €2,000 / ₹180,000 in most regions (with the obvious exception of India).
Apple iPhone Duo • Apple iPhone 18 Pro • Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max
Indeed, the Z Fold8 will be the Duo’s strongest rival. We have a detailed specs comparison between the two if you are interested in a closer look. We also examined the other wide foldable alternatives that are on the market, but it’s a short list – the Z Fold8 (widely available), the new Xiaomi 18 Fold (not expected in North America) and the Huawei Pura X Max (not expected outside of China).
iPhone Duo highlights
Apple touts that the iPhone Duo has the largest display of any iPhone so far and how good that is for multitasking. It also flaunts the foldable’s flexibility – it’s great for videos and for video calling, since it can stand up on its own. It has a powerful set of cameras with a 48MP 1/1.28” main and a 48MP 120° ultra-wide, plus an under-display camera inside. And the Apple A20 Pro just leapt to the top of the Geekbench charts. You can watch a longer official video introduction of the Duo here.
Apple also unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max. The vanilla iPhone 18 along with any 18e, Air2 and other such models will have to wait until next year.
iPhone 18 Pro highlights
As for the iPhone 18 Pro, it brings the more powerful A20 Pro chipset (Apple’s first 2nm chip), the 48MP main camera now has a variable aperture (f/1.5-f/4.0) and the battery is slightly larger – 4,056mAh for the SIM and 4,288mAh for the eSIM model, compared to 3,998mAh and 4,252mAh for the same versions of the 17 Pro.
The iPhone 18 Pro Max has the same upgrades, except that the battery gains are more substantial – 5,391mAh for the SIM and 5,567mAh for the eSIM model, compared to 4,823mAh and 5,088mAh for the 17 Pro Max.
The current iPhone lineup
Here are the starting prices for the three new iPhones. We should also note that Apple raised the prices on the iPhone 17, 16 and Air models. And, as usual, it discontinued the old Pro models (i.e. Apple.com no longer sells iPhone 17 Pro or 17 Pro Max).
| iPhone 18 Pro | iPhone 18 Pro Max | iPhone Duo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | USD 1,199 | USD 1,299 | USD 1,999 |
| Germany | EUR 1,449 | EUR 1,599 | EUR 2,299 |
| UK | GBP 1,199 | GBP 1,299 | GBP 1,999 |
| India | INR 164,900 | INR 179,900 | INR 299,900 |
| China | CNY 9,999 | CNY 10,999 | CNY 15,999 |
| Japan | JPY 219,800 | JPY 239,800 | JPY 364,800 |
Okay, time to vote – will you buy the new iPhone Duo? If not, why not?
What about the iPhone 18 Pro – keep in mind that Apple no longer officially sells the 17 Pro, but you can still find it at third-party retailers. Is the 18 Pro the one for you?
Finally, is the iPhone 18 Pro Max the right model for you instead?
