Alleged Display Sizes Leaked for Apple's Book-Style Foldable iPhone

[lilkwarrior]

Clamshell > bookstyle. I don't need a bigger screen, but I do want a small phone in my pocket and ability to use it one-handed.

That said, I don't really have any interest in a foldable phone, of any flavor.

Good thing they’ll likely do both. Bookstyle is ergonomically better for on-the-go productivity, content creation, and reading.

Using a Pixel 9 Fold & Galaxy fold as my work/UX phones while using the iPhone 16 Pro Max as my personal, the iPhone is extremely archaic, inefficient, and constraining to use in comparison after my core work hours—especially being far easier to use to type on, hold, and not drop.

Biggest jump in phone tech I’ve experienced since the first iPhone and first high nit OLED + Dolby Vision screen iPhone with FaceID (iPhone X?).

A foldable iPhone/iPad in the realm of either Android foldable essentially refreshingly eliminates increasingly the need or use case of a classic iPad mini as well.

Skeptical about the pursuit of eliminating creases and delaying the device in pursuit of that. Apple does have the money and ecosystem power to take their time I guess.

Such foldable have an inner screen essentially double the iPhone 16 Pro and another one of its size outside the phone and the primary one when folded.

Obviously it should be a more expensive device.

I’m excited for such a form factor to be available in the Apple ecosystem. Latently it will be the most available high-end phone for prosumers who can easily justify it as the form factor

 

[MacKid]

If Apples comes out with a foldable phone, the cost will kill most mini obsessed people from buying it.

Most mini obsessed people are tech bloggers who can absolutely afford it 🤓

 

[lilkwarrior]

idk, I want a smaller phone so I can operate it one handed, not because it does/doesn't fit in my pocket. This feels more like a gimmick to me than actually useful. If I want something with a larger, display I'll use an iPad or MacBook

iPad Mini and other similar devices show there is absolutely a market for smaller devices than an iPad, Macbook, and larger computing devices than a traditional phone.

Hence foldable and even spatial
computing tech for an infinitely sized canvas.

It’s ergonomically beneficial for typing, reading, and getting things done

 

[lilkwarrior]

If Apples comes out with a foldable phone, the cost will kill most mini obsessed people from buying it.

Not those who have pondered or had owned an iPad mini; an iPhone foldable would conflate and obsolete the need for an iPad mini for many.

It’s always been debated in human-computer-interaction computer science circles if Apple’s delay is more the conundrum of them having the courage to have such a device run iPhone and iPad apps simultaneously.

I can totally see the device using Mx silicon to justify the inescapable higher price it will demand than a traditional iPhone Pro max AND an iPad Pro.

A foldable iPhone mean to succeed the iPhone Pro Max is essentially an iPad Mini Pro.

They can also debut their modem for such a device towards latently justifying their approach to building their own modems and SoC silicon.

Such a device would be more innovative than any foldable to date as far as computing is concerned if it can run iPhone and iPad apps that Apple Silicon can absolutely do.

 

[nottorp]

idk, I want a smaller phone so I can operate it one handed, not because it does/doesn't fit in my pocket. This feels more like a gimmick to me than actually useful. If I want something with a larger, display I'll use an iPad or MacBook

Exactly. If I want a big screen I have an iPad. And a laptop. And a desktop with dual monitors.

I don't need a phone that unfolds into a tablet, I already have a tablet.

Since Cook has this strong thinness fetish, why doesn't he make a very thin iphone mini that folds in half and takes even less space in my pockets?

 

[DrWojtek]

If they hypothetically were able to release foldables at the same cost as current models, iPhones should be clamshell and iPads bookbends.

Same area when in use but less footprint when not.

What I have 0 use for is a larger iPhone at the same footprint as now. I have never needed the screen size I already have but every day I wish it were smaller .

/iPhone 14

 

[geta]

5.49 outer screen? Nice, iPhone mini is reincarnated, baby! Glad they are taking advantage of folding tech to make the phone which is actually portable when folded.

They should also offer half foldable device with only the outer 5.49” screen at half price.

 

[klasma]

Such a device would be more innovative than any foldable to date as far as computing is concerned if it can run iPhone and iPad apps that Apple Silicon can absolutely do.

I don't see that happening, because foldables allow you to switch the same running app between the outer and inner screen, and how would that work for apps that have both an iPhone and an iPad version.

 

[breather]

Bookstyle > Clamshell

Bookstyle < Clamshell

 

[klasma]

Since Cook has this strong thinness fetish, why doesn't he make a very thin iphone mini that folds in half and takes even less space in my pockets?

Too little space for the battery. Which is why the iPhone Air will be Plus-sized only.

 

[Mitochris]

Is no one going for iPhold as name?

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

Meh. Not too excited for a foldable. Like, what would it do my 16 pm can’t do?? Except have a bigger screen with a smaller footprint when folded?

…like ppl said yeah I got a Mac and a TV for big content…that being said, of course when Apple does it, it’ll be so elegant and tempting…it’ll definitely stir up feelings of FOMO in a lot of ppl when/if it releases

 

[thefrost]

Bookstyle < Clamshell

If that's what you think, that's fine.

 

[baryon]

Are there any foldable phones with a glass display? Because I doubt Apple wants to go back to plastic screens, but I don't think glass can be folded like that?

 

[Aeronauts]

This is the iPhone I’ve been waiting for. The crease doesn’t bother me, they can fix that in subsequent versions.

 

[JosephAW]

Hopefully there will be an “e” model for $699 for the rest of us. 📱📱🙌💰

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

with a foldable iPad also expected to arrive within the same time frame

That could be the device in two sizes, not called iPhone nor iPad. If the device has an unusual aspect ratio when in clamshell mode, to give the display a more landscape shape when opened, Apple could go with the product name iBook. If MBP will be getting a cell modem, as could iBook. Admittedly, adding iPhone somewhere in the name would probably hype it more though, so maybe they'll do that. iPhone Fold, Apple Fold, iFold, Apple Book Flip Back Flip Pro (five times fast)

iPhone Bend 🤣

 

[neptuna]

Interesting size for the outer screen. Depending on the thickness of the device, this could be the new replacement for us mini lovers! 🤞

 

[Aeronauts]

They’re probably experimenting with different size prototypes hence the variation in rumours.

 

[spazzcat]

Not those who have pondered or had owned an iPad mini; an iPhone foldable would conflate and obsolete the need for an iPad mini for many.

It’s always been debated in human-computer-interaction computer science circles if Apple’s delay is more the conundrum of them having the courage to have such a device run iPhone and iPad apps simultaneously.

I can totally see the device using Mx silicon to justify the inescapable higher price it will demand than a traditional iPhone Pro max AND an iPad Pro.

A foldable iPhone mean to succeed the iPhone Pro Max is essentially an iPad Mini Pro.

They can also debut their modem for such a device towards latently justifying their approach to building their own modems and SoC silicon.

Such a device would be more innovative than any foldable to date as far as computing is concerned if it can run iPhone and iPad apps that Apple Silicon can absolutely do.

The person I quoted was talking about an iphone mini.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

5.49 outer screen? Nice, iPhone mini is reincarnated, baby! Glad they are taking advantage of folding tech to make the phone which is actually portable when folded.

Definitely not mini in price, but I think I will upgrade anyway. I'll be able to overlook the 0.09" increase in size.

Assuming it's thin enough to slide into my pocket - but considering that it's Apple, I doubt that will be an issue.

I ran my SE into the ground waiting for the 12 mini, and I don't want to do that again. I was originally planning on upgrading to the 17, I may still, and then upgrade again. <3 Consumerism culture.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Not those who have pondered or had owned an iPad mini; an iPhone foldable would conflate and obsolete the need for an iPad mini for many.

I can totally see the device using Mx silicon to justify the inescapable higher price it will demand than a traditional iPhone Pro max AND an iPad Pro.

The iPad Mini uses an A17 chip. There's no need to put an M-series chip in there unless they're just trying to increase the ASP. I'm not sure that it would be useful due to power constraints either.

 

[satpalram]

5.4”…

 

[Le0M]

5.49 outer screen? Nice, iPhone mini is reincarnated, baby! Glad they are taking advantage of folding tech to make the phone which is actually portable when folded.

If the inner screen is 7inches, this means that the device is still much bigger than the iPhone mini, UNFORTUNATELY.

 

[roundski]

iphone mini has a 5.42“ screen, slightly smaller than this rumoured 5.49“ screen