https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-iphone-flip-phone-everything-we-know/
iPhone Flip: design and display Tech Aesthetics / YouTube. Very little is known about the design Apple may ultimately use for its first foldable iPhone.

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/apple-just-filed-a-crucial-patent-for-the-iphone-flip-what-we-know
Its claims and illustrations show an iPhone-shaped device folding vertically like a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 or other small foldable, with a hinge mechanism and flexible screen. The patent mentions

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-flip-everything-we-know-about-apples-foldable-phone-plans
iPhone Flip display. Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed that the first foldable iPhone will have a huge display measuring 8 inches. That would be larger than the Galaxy Z Fold 4, which offers a 7.6 inch

https://www.phonearena.com/news/world-first-foldable-iphone-real-china-video_id143596
Does the "world's first foldable iPhone" bend as naturally as a Razr or Samsung Galaxy Z Flip? Absolutely not. Will it survive daily unfolding and folding action for a reasonable amount of time? We highly doubt that given all of the work that went into making an actual commercial iPhone display fold in the first place, which clearly had an

https://appletoolbox.com/iphone-flip-everything-we-know-about-apples-foldable-iphone/
Originally, rumors suggested that Apple would release its first iPhone Flip sometime in 2023, likely coming as a "One More Thing" announcement. However, given the ongoing supply chain issues, combined with Apple's inability to find a suitable display, recent rumors now point to a 2025 release date.

https://www.techradar.com/news/foldable-iphone
Naturally, we also don't know how much the foldable iPhone might cost if and when it does land, but given that a lot of foldable phones demand well over the $1000 / £1000 / AU$2000 mark, it's

https://www.designboom.com/technology/world-first-foldable-iphone-not-made-apple-kjmx-10-11-2022/
introducing the first flip iphone . The world's leading smartphone manufacturers have been launching foldable screens for several years now. Samsung, Huawei, and Motorola in particular have

https://www.imore.com/iphone/iphone-flip
With an upcoming iPhone already rumored to cost beyond $999 in 2024, a folding iPhone nano / Ultra could go even further at $1,499 to be the 'high-end' model for the line. Folding phones don't come cheap, and they're not expected to go down in price anytime soon, so we're expecting an iPhone Flip to cost as much as a 1TB 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/07/apple-eyes-a-foldable-iphone-following-vision-pro-launch/
A folding iPhone could change that. Last week's Vision Pro release shed some fascinating light on Apple's generally top secret development process. A Vanity Fair interview with Tim Cook

https://www.techradar.com/news/working-iphone-flip-is-here-to-give-us-a-glimpse-of-apples-foldable-future
Samsung is already up to the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4, and we may well have seen another couple of models of each by the time the iPhone Flip lands. So Apple's first-generation device

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/11/08/worlds-first-foldable-iphone-wasnt-made-by-apple
World's first foldable iPhone wasn't made by Apple. After over 200 days of trial and error, an engineer was able to create a folding iPhone using custom parts and a hinge from a Motorola Razr

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/iphone-flip-release-date-specs-and-everything-we-know-so-far/ar-BB1oHi7y
The first iPhone Flip patent leak was unearthed in 2016 and eight years on, we're still no closer to anything concrete. Screen & Display This is arguably where Apple is facing its biggest challenge.

https://www.lifewire.com/foldable-iphone-5114106
Updated on May 10, 2024. One idea floating around is Apple combining an iPhone and an iPad to make a double-wide phone, or maybe the iPhone Flip will fold like the iconic Motorola Razr. These are just rumors for now, and some experts think Apple might release a foldable iPad before a foldable iPhone. Whatever the case, the talk about a foldable

https://www.macworld.com/article/673515/foldable-iphone-release-date-rumours-patents.html
A patent for "Flexible display devices" was filed in October 2018 and published in February 2019. The patent application includes lots of illustrations, such as the one below. That patent is a

https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/iphone-fold-flip-heres-everything-we-know-about-apples-upcoming-foldable-smartphone-0385375/
Kuo has said that he believes Apple is working on an iPhone with an 8-inch and/or 9-inch display unfolded, but he also speculates that an iPad-sized foldable will come out first. Rumored Durability One of the key challenges in developing a foldable iPhone lies in ensuring durability and reliability.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/from-the-brick-to-the-iphone-the-cellphone-celebrates-50-years-180981910/
George Schuyler's serialized Afrofuturist saga Black Empire first proposed the fax machine—in 1938. It's a vision Cooper shared. "Wireless is freedom," he once told a BBC News reporter

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphone-17-slim-model-just-tipped-for-2025-and-apples-first-ever-foldable-hybrid
The Pu investor note seems to back this up, with the prediction of a 20.3-inch foldable device arriving in late 2025, followed by an iPhone Fold or iPhone Flip in the tail-end of 2026. There's

https://www.sammobile.com/news/apples-first-foldable-iphone-prototypes-look-like-the-galaxy-z-flip/
A new report sheds more light on Apple's elusive foldable iPhones. The report claims that Apple has made at least two prototypes of a clamshell foldable iPhone. These prototypes fold horizontally, much like the Galaxy Z Flip series from Samsung does. It's unclear if Apple has made prototypes similar to the Galaxy Z Fold lineup as well.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/These-were-the-classic-flip-phones-that-everyone-used-and-we-miss-them_id113448
Motorola StarTAC. Another widely popular classic flip phone from Motorola came during the mid-1990s with the release of the StarTac. Finally, we get to the true classic on this list - the Motorola StarTAC. When it was released in 1996, it instantly moved cell phone designs forward with its slim and compact size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldable_smartphone
Foldable smartphone. A foldable smartphone (also known as a foldable phone or simply foldable) is a smartphone with a folding form factor. It is reminiscent of the clamshell (or "flip phone") design of many earlier feature phones. [1] [2] Some variants of the concept use multiple touchscreen panels on a hinge, while other designs utilise a

https://www.crumpe.com/2020/07/the-worlds-first-flip-phone-cost-1000-heres-what-that-bought-you-in-1996/
As the world's first flip phone, the StarTAC inspired generations of phones, including today's Motorola Razr and Galaxy Z Flip foldables. It's Motorola we have to thank for the first cell phone, for the satisfying snap of flipping a clamshell phone closed, and for popularizing vibration mode. ... iPhone 11 Pro (2019) Samsung Galaxy S20

https://www.gizchina.com/2021/02/14/first-look-at-the-foldable-iphone-iphone-flip-most-radical-iphone-ever/
The size of the device could be the iPhone 12 mini and after the flip, it becomes larger. Subsequently, it can unveil the phone-to-tablet (obviously more expensive) foldable iPhone.

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt
Ahead of that anniversary, Motherboard editor Brian Merchant embarked on an investigation to uncover the iPhone's untold origin. The One Device: The secret history of the iPhone, out on June

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/rcs-comes-to-iphone-as-carriers-start-to-flip-the-switch/ar-BB1oXbZs
The iOS 18 beta 1 "hack" that forced RCS support on iPhone showed that RCS only worked on AT&T and T-Mobile. iOS 18 beta 2 then brought a new setting that lets you turn on RCS Messaging on the iPhone.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/should-you-buy-the-samsung-galaxy-z-flip-5-or-wait-for-the-z-flip-6/
The Galaxy Z Flip 5 will only receive four Android updates, and it got its first of those only a few weeks after release, which means the end of the road will be Android 17.

https://www.t-mobile.com/dialed-in/devices/first-iphone
It was about two decades ago that Steve Jobs and his groundbreaking device would change the way the world stayed connected. The First iPhone (2007) On January 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco. A few months later on June 29, 2007, it hit the market. Jobs described the groundbreaking phone

https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/06/28/samsung-launches-new-isocell-smartphone-camera-sensors/
The ISOCELL HP9 is the first 200MP telephoto sensor for smartphones. It features 200 million .56-micrometer (μm) pixels in a 1/1.4-inch optical format. The high-refractive microlens improves

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/06/24/smartphones-public-no-headphones-why/74164380007/
Once you notice it, you'll see that it's happening all around us almost everywhere we go. There's the woman on FaceTime at the next table in the restaurant, the man scrolling Instagram Reels

https://www.newsweek.com/mass-extinction-prevention-protected-areas-species-1916991
A stock image of a tiger in a forest. There is a dwindling window of opportunity to protect the world's wildlife. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS. Some of the species found at these sites include the