I’ve reviewed almost every Android foldable this year — here’s how the iPhone Duo compares

<figure> <img alt="Photo showing a folded iPhone Duo alongside five other Android foldables on a wooden table." data-caption="These aren’t even all the foldables in my house right now." data-portal-copyright="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/iphone-duo-android-foldables-1.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> These aren’t even all the foldables in my house right now. </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">When I first read Allison and Nilay's <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1015028/iphone-duo-review"><em>Verge</em> review of the iPhone Duo</a>, I was immediately struck by one of their complaints: that the cover display is too small. <em>That's not how the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/972387/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-review">Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8</a> feels</em>, I thought. Had they got it wrong?</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">After a week and a half using the Duo, I know exactly what they mean - and it's not the screen's fault at all. Apps that feel comfortable on Samsung's short foldable and the similarly sized <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/991008/xiaomi-18-fold-hands-on-impressions-specs-wide">Xiaomi 18 Fold</a> are often cramped and compact on the Duo's cover screen, robbed of screen space by a right-hand rail that most apps don't make use of anyway.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">That's just one of the ways that Apple's first foldable …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1026410/iphone-duo-foldable-android-samsung-google-xiaomi-oppo-honor">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>