The incomplete history of Duo devices

<figure> <img alt="Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo handset" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/duo6.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Apple announced the company's <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/991203/iphone-duo-foldable-news-specs-price-release-date">first device with a folding screen</a> today, the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/991236/iphone-foldable-hands-on-first-impressions" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theverge.com/tech/991236/iphone-foldable-hands-on-first-impressions">iPhone Duo</a>, but that's where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/854352/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-hands-on" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theverge.com/tech/854352/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-hands-on">Samsung</a> and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/795298/google-pixel-10-pro-fold-review" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theverge.com/tech/795298/google-pixel-10-pro-fold-review">Google</a>, but it's also not the first product to be called the Duo. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying "good artists copy, great artists steal," but will the iPhone Duo's folding screen, which features a custom nano-texture display material to help minimize the visibility of its crease, be enough to make us forget these other Duos that have come before it? Only time, or how aggressively Apple plans to market i …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/992755/apple-iphone-duo-history-of-devices">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>