Martin's iPhone Duo verdict comes with a change of habits

Behind the familiar tech-review mannerisms is a practical question: what would you actually do with a folding screen?

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The iPhone Duo Review

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4:22Folding the phone reveals its closed thickness and the display crease, which Martin describes as barely visible.
12:37Safari and Notes run side by side as Martin drags a Pinterest image directly into a note.
20:18A bike app displays with black borders, illustrating uneven third-party support for the folding screen.
21:56Martin's verdict: replacing a conventional phone with the Duo requires adjusting your habits.
23:28Potential drawbacks include the matte interior display, $2,000 starting price and lower-quality inner camera.
25:54Martin recommends trying the phone in an Apple Store before deciding whether to buy.

"If you're expecting this phone to seamlessly replace your current phone, I think you're going to be disappointed," Martin says near the end of "The iPhone Duo Review."

That is the useful wrinkle in a review whose enthusiasm extends from the unboxing to the page-turn animation in Apple Books. Martin likes the foldable, but his conclusion isn't simply that a bigger screen makes a better phone. It asks you to change how you use it.

His clearest demonstration comes with Safari and Notes open side by side. He drags an image from Pinterest into a note, showing what the extra space can offer beyond a larger version of an ordinary phone app. Later, Apple Books spreads its pages across the fold, while Outlook gets a split interface of its own.

Not everything fits so neatly. A bike app appears surrounded by black borders, and Martin identifies the matte inner display, weaker interior camera and roughly $2,000 starting price as potential drawbacks. He expects developers to improve their apps, drawing a comparison with the adjustments that followed the iPhone X.

The delivery is part of the story, too. Viewers pick out his collection of familiar tech-review mannerisms, recall the reviews they watched around the iPhone 5's launch, and ask whether the Duo works with his much-discussed Apple Polishing Cloth.

For all that knowing humor, Martin ends with a straightforward suggestion: try the phone in an Apple Store before buying. His verdict leaves room for someone to admire the folding trick without wanting to rearrange their habits around it.

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I think the question we all have is: Is the iPhone Duo optimized for my Apple Polishing Cloth??
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THE EXACT type of videos i would watch as a kid when the iphone 5 came out
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The actual product never being quite in focus is making me TWEAKKKK
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bro im crying hes fr got all the mannerisms of every tech youtuber ever
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The way THIS is the first review of the iPhone duo I’ve ever watched 😭
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