Apple iPhone Duo Review: Is It Worth It?
Source: Wired ·
Apple made an astonishingly good first foldable. Now iOS and third-party apps need time to catch up.
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It's a little hard to review the iPhone Duo. I've been toting Apple's first folding smartphone for the past week, and several apps I've tried to open on the sprawling 7.6-inch screen look awful. Thick, black bars on the sides, with a phone-sized app in the middle of this tablet-like display. But you likely won't encounter this problem once the Duo is in your hands. In the past day, a handful of apps I use regularly updated to add full support for the iPhone Duo's screen sizes and vertical user interface elements. Instagram, Threads, Slack, and even the Google app now have navigational icons on the right rail instead of the bottom center, and the app content is better laid out to make use of the larger screen. Developers need to target the iOS 27.1 software development kit (SDK) for full Duo compatibility. That will take some time. But it is a little maddening that some app developers, who for years have never seemed to care about optimizing their app for Android folding phones , are…