iPhone Duo But…is it still a phone?

[Pipper99]

These devices have now long been pocket computers that take pictures and make phone calls: although we all make a lot of calls, the phone functionality seems basic and to be of lesser importance to most people than the other features. Maybe “phone” should be de-emphasized in the naming.

 

[kerosene]

Or is it because they would rather demonstrate FaceTime, their calling service?
I also have to ask, because I haven’t bothered to look, does Apple show any of their other phones up to someone’s face? In 2026? Is that like, a marketing photo for the 18 Pro? Someone taking an old-fashioned hold it up to your ear phone call?

Dunno, maybe making phone calls this way isn‘t a thing any longer?

 

[TroyBoy30]

It should be easy for you to provide a promotional image from Apple showing any of the other iPhones Apple is currently selling held up to somone's ear then right?

weird right? i wonder why they hide that! #s

 

[tomtad]

they have these things called ear buds or heaven forbid speaker phone

If you can't hold it up to your ear than it's DOA.

Fortunately I believe you can

 

[Gsxr750]

The point is how they‘re not even showing this use case at all (phone to ear). I find that remarkable for a device that is called iPhone. Don‘t know if you could call this wrong, but apparently avoiding showing this device will now cover one side of your face.

Why spend time on a feature that’s been around for over 20 years?

 

[Macalway]

It's not too large. There are plenty of this size.

 

[GMShadow]

what's wrong with that? don't you remember old pre-iPhone phones that tried to be smaller and smaller? I had a Nokia that was so tiny the microphone only reached to the end of my sides

It's fun to remember that the original iPhone was actually seen as large - so much so that Apple sought out models with larger hands for the commercials to make the phone seem smaller than it was. In a world where the Motorola RAZR was a few years old, the iPhone was giant.

 

[NotApplicable]

It's fun to remember that the original iPhone was actually seen as large - so much so that Apple sought out models with larger hands for the commercials to make the phone seem smaller than it was. In a world where the Motorola RAZR was a few years old, the iPhone was giant.

It wasn’t particularly gigantic compared to its more direct competition, the blackberry

 

[MarkX]

View attachment 2661603Prove me wrong, but I‘ve noticed that Apple hasn‘t mentioned AT ALL in their presentations or shown in ANY of their marketing materials the basic functionality of the iPhone Duo as an ordinary phone…

For sure, not a coincidence?

Perhaps, to avoid undesirable impressions such as this? (for clarity, the image is AI generated, can‘t assert this is showing the proportions with fidelity)

What's so undesirable about the image? It's only 6mm wider than the Pro Max.

 

[slippery-pete]

Never gets old

Yeah, it kind of does.

 

[Yr Blues]

What's a phone?