Igeekphone March 24 news, in recent years, iPhone innovation is weak, product iteration every year “squeezing toothpaste”, foldable screen iPhone has been slow to show up, Apple’s hulu in the end to sell what medicine? Now the answer is finally here!
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman said in the latest column that Apple’s first folding screen phone or named “iPhone Fold”, the new machine uses a “book” large folding structure design, the earliest will come out in 2026.
Apple disclosure brother, Tianfeng International securities analyst Guo Mingd «¹ is given more details
First of all, it’s a true AI phone. Second, it’s the most premium iPhone ever. The first foldable iPhone is expected to cost more than $2,000 to $2,500 (14,500 yuan to 18,100 yuan).
He believes that the iPhone is just needed, and the Apple brand premium is high, as long as the quality is good enough, even if the price is high, the foldable screen iPhone driven by the replacement demand is still very strong.
The main specifications of the new machine are expected to be as follows:
1. Touch ID returns in the form of side buttons, without Face ID (due to thickness space constraints).
2, the use of “book” folding design, the inner screen 7.8 inches, no creases, the outer screen 5.5 inches.
3, the rear camera adopts a dual lens, and there is a front camera when opening and folding.
4. The folding thickness is about 9-9.5mm, and the unfolding thickness is about 4.5-4.8mm.
5, using the same high-density battery cell as the ultra-thin iPhone.
6. Apple eliminates creases “at any cost.”
The report also mentions that the foldable iPhone will be the first product to use a large amount of liquid metal. The latest industry survey pointed out that in order to improve the durability of the folded iPhone, the flatness of the screen, and the purpose of achieving no creases on the screen, Apple will use liquid metal materials and Die casting processing, EON Technology is the exclusive supplier of liquid metal and the main beneficiary.
Apple has long used liquid metal (such as the pins that pop out of the SIM slot), but the foldable iPhone will for the first time use liquid metal in a large number of core mechanisms.
It is expected that other Android-branded phones, in order to compete with the foldable iPhone, will be more active in using liquid metal as the main material of bearings.
Guo Mingqi said that the final specifications of the initial foldable iPhone will be finalized in the second quarter of 2025, the third quarter of this year, and is expected to be in the fourth quarter of 2026
The second foldable iPhone is expected to be mass-produced in the second half of 2027.