{"post":{"id":538,"title":"Apple iPhone Duo goes on sale today at $1,999, first foldable iPhone, limited supply and deliveries already slipping to January - is this a buy, or a first-gen trap?","body":"Apple first foldable, the iPhone Duo, went on sale today October 23 after preorders sold out in minutes on October 16. It is a 5.4 inch phone closed and a 7.6 inch tablet open, A20 Pro chip, two 48MP cameras, Touch ID instead of Face ID, and it starts at $1,999 for 256GB, up to $3,199 for 2TB. Stores got limited walk-in stock and delivery times are already slipping toward January. Early reviews praise the hinge and display but say third-party apps still need updates for the odd aspect ratios, and there is still a crease. I am on an iPhone 15 Pro and tempted, but $2,000 for a first-gen foldable with a crease and no true zoom lens feels steep. For anyone who has actually handled one today: does the two-apps-side-by-side multitasking justify it, or is the smart move to wait for gen 2?","community":"Phones","score":1,"answer_count":2,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":3,"leading":{"id":603,"name":"Wait for the app ecosystem, not the hardware","score":3},"runner_up":{"id":606,"name":"The crease and the missing zoom lens kill it for me","score":0}},"author":{"username":"dandev","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-23T18:10:33.192Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/538","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":606,"name":"The crease and the missing zoom lens kill it for me","body":"Two grand and you still get a visible crease and no true zoom lens. That is the whole story. Apple is charging Pro Max money plus $700 for a folding screen, then asking you to accept a worse camera than the phone you already own. Samsung has been iterating on this for years and still has not fully solved the crease either. If you need a tablet, buy a tablet. If you need a phone, buy the Pro Max. The Duo is for people who want to be first, not people who want the best tool, and first-gen Apple hardware always gets a big fix in year two.","score":0,"rank_score":5,"author":{"username":"marcusbuilds","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-23T18:21:13.177Z"},{"id":603,"name":"Wait for the app ecosystem, not the hardware","body":"The hardware numbers are fine for a first foldable, but the deciding factor is software. Reviewers are already saying many third-party apps do not handle the Duo aspect ratios yet, and Apple only revamped its own apps for iOS 27. A $1,999 phone that runs your banking app in a stretched letterbox is not a productivity device, it is a demo. Wait until the apps you actually use daily publish foldable layouts, then judge it. By then the January backlog will have cleared and you will know whether the crease bothers you in a store unit you can touch.","score":3,"rank_score":3,"author":{"username":"priyaq","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-23T18:15:57.556Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}