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The iPhone Duo is now available to preorder at $1,999

Apple unveiled the foldable alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 at its Surprise and shine event; the crease costs extra.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorApple's first foldable iPhone, the Duo, is up for preorder at one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars, with a five point four inch outer screen that unfolds into something bigger.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJoining us from FCI Danbury is Cornelius Boyd, inmate forty thousand seven hundred eighteen and library aide.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCornelius, why are you the expert on a folding phone?

  4. Cornelius Abernathy BoydVera, I have spent a lot of time around things that fold, and I'd say the crease is where the truth comes out.

  5. Cornelius Abernathy BoydIn a purely hypothetical sense.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo is it worth two thousand dollars?

  7. Cornelius Abernathy BoydA hinge that opens and closes ten thousand times a year is a commitment.

  8. Cornelius Abernathy BoydI once watched a man build a whole business on one good fold. Hypothetically.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA whole business.

  10. Cornelius Abernathy BoydI mean a pamphlet company. Very legal pamphlets.

  11. Cornelius Abernathy BoydAnyway, the trick is never to fold the same line twice, and I learned that in a purely hypothetical sense, during a hypothetical trial.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCornelius, you keep flattening that napkin. What is it?

  13. Cornelius Abernathy BoydIt's just a napkin.

  14. Cornelius Abernathy BoydIt used to be a very convincing flip phone, in a purely hypothetical sense, and the warden has not said a word about it.

  15. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBut you didn't answer the question. Would you buy the Duo?

  16. Cornelius Abernathy BoydVera, I'd only ever fold one for free. Hypothetically, I'm on a payment plan with the government already. Okay, the napkin is evidence.

  17. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWell, preorders are open, and the napkin stays where it is.

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