Apple is Exploring an 'iPhone Flip'

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Apple is "exploring" the thought of a foldable iPhone with a "square, clamshell-style" design, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

A alleged "iPhone Flip" — unlikely to beryllium the existent sanction — would vie with devices specified arsenic Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the modern-day Motorola Razr.

The clamshell iPhone would beryllium released astatine immoderate constituent aft Apple's first foldable iPhone, which is expected to motorboat successful September this year.

The archetypal foldable iPhone is expected to unfastened up similar a book, akin to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7. This plan volition supply users with a ample 7.7-inch interior display for watching videos and gaming, and determination volition apt beryllium multitasking functionality. A clamshell iPhone, connected the different hand, would beryllium much astir portability and pocketability.

"Apple is betting that its archetypal foldable iPhone volition beryllium palmy capable to make existent request for the class and that customers volition privation further shapes and sizes, overmuch arsenic they person with accepted slab-style iPhones," said Gurman. Nevertheless, helium said a clamshell iPhone is "far from guaranteed to scope the market."