iPhone Duo Review: Putting Apple’s Folding Phone Through Hell

It’s here: Apple’s first foldable iPhone. In my iPhone Duo review, I put the folding phone through seven days and seven nights of crazy testing—its hinge, cameras, matte screen and, yes, its software. For our hinge durability test, we built a special robot to fold the Duo more than 30,000 times. Then we hit the high seas (fine, the Hudson River) for a camera test and a look at how the matte display handles bright sunlight. And the software? Well, you’ll see. Thanks to DeleteMe for sponsoring this video. Head to https://joindeleteme.com/newthings to find out more. Chapters: 00:00 iPhone Duo review 00:41 Meet Hingey: Our hinge durability tester 2:21 iPhone Duo vs. Galaxy Z Fold screen testing—on a yacht 4:58 iPhone Duo poses 5:51 Camera testing 6:52 FaceTime camera testing 8:07 MoneyMic: DeleteMe 9:10 iPhone Duo case and button testing 10:26 TouchID and a love letter to FaceID 11:22 Software and third-party app testing 13:50 How to multitask 14:17 Battery testing 14:48 Hinge test results 15:32 Ending thoughts, iPhone Duo 2 📬 Our videos are free here, but support our work by subscribing to the New Things. You’ll love the newsletters! https://thenewthings.com/subscribe. 📙 Order Joanna’s new book at https://joannastern.com 💼 Want to sponsor our stuff? Email [email protected] ▶️ Subscribe here so you don’t miss future videos https://www.youtube.com/c/joannastern Who is Joanna Stern? Emmy winner. Pulitzer finalist. Professional asker of uncomfortable questions. New York Times bestselling author. Joanna spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal making videos and writing columns before founding New Things. Before that, she helped start The Verge and worked at ABC News. She believes technology should work for humans—and that journalism should be fun. She is working on both. She also is the author of the new book I AM NOT A ROBOT: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. As NBC News' Chief Technology Analyst, her reporting and The New Things content regularly appears across NBC's broadcasts and platforms. For Joanna’s full resume, see LinkedIn. You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joannastern Or on X here: https://x.com/JoannaStern Or on LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/in/joannastern