iPhone Duo Review: Apple unfolds a new future, but I'm not fully sold

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Victor Hristov
Victor Hristov
Phonearena team
• 11h ago

iPhone Duo: what are your favorite features and what would you want Apple improve in the next generation?

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p51d007
p51d007
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• 11h ago

I'm still not sold on ANY of the folding phones. Inner screens are too easy to damage, and the price is silly considering it's just a larger inner screen.

Until the inner screen is more like the outside screen and the price comes down,

I'll stick with a slab phone.

Took Apple around 8 years to release a folding phone and they "almost" got it right.

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pjamies
pjamies
Arena Apprentice
• 5h ago

People are finding that buying version 1 of even an Apple product could be a disaster!

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Charlie2k
Charlie2k
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• 3h ago
↵VictorHristov said:

iPhone Duo: what are your favorite features and what would you want Apple improve in the next generation?

My favorite feature is that the brand new A20 Pro gets slaughtered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (from 2025) in AnTuTu 11 benchmarking suite. Oh wait...PhoneArena dont use non-biased benchmarking software. I'm sure they have just forgotten that Geekbench (from version 6 and newer) is specifically designed to give Apple hardware better results.

https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-2-vs-apple-a20-pro

Also an amazing feature is that the Duo screen does not attract fingerprints, like the glossy screens do. I believe the author forgot to mention that glossy screens are easy to wipe off. While the matte screen on the Duo instead attract lotions, makeup, grease (from eating french fries etc.) and it looks terrible and it's impossible to clean due to it getting stucked deep in the not very smooth surface. Amazing feature... Oh.. PA didn't mention this? Unexpected.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneDuo/comments/1xe2ack/lotion_on_screen_how_to_clean/

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Victor Hristov
Victor Hristov
Phonearena team
• 54m ago
↵Charlie2k said:

My favorite feature is that the brand new A20 Pro gets slaughtered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (from 2025) in AnTuTu 11 benchmarking suite. Oh wait...PhoneArena dont use non-biased benchmarking software. I'm sure they have just forgotten that Geekbench (from version 6 and newer) is specifically designed to give Apple hardware better results.

https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-2-vs-apple-a20-pro

Also an amazing feature is that the Duo screen does not attract fingerprints, like the glossy screens do. I believe the author forgot to mention that glossy screens are easy to wipe off. While the matte screen on the Duo instead attract lotions, makeup, grease (from eating french fries etc.) and it looks terrible and it's impossible to clean due to it getting stucked deep in the not very smooth surface. Amazing feature... Oh.. PA didn't mention this? Unexpected.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneDuo/comments/1xe2ack/lotion_on_screen_how_to_clean/

Antutu scores between iOS and Android are not directly comparable as is explicitly written in the first link you provided. We use industry-standard benchmarks that are cross-compatible.

As to your second point, we've tried to point out the major pros AND the cons of the matte display, but I didn't account for every use case. Greasy fingers might indeed be an issue, but it takes time to test all those things.

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