iPhone Duo is Messier Than You Think — Transcript

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1. 0:00Okay, Apple doesn't want you to think of
2. 0:02it like this, but
3. 0:04the $2,000 iPhone Duo is all about
4. 0:07trade-offs.
5. 0:19Because if you are considering one of
6. 0:20these,
7. 0:21then your best Apple alternative is an
8. 0:24iPhone 18 Pro. So, the question we have
9. 0:26to answer is very simple. Exactly how
10. 0:28much you're gaining if you choose a Duo
11. 0:30instead, and exactly how much are you
12. 0:32losing?
13. 0:33Turns out
14. 0:35more than I expected. Because the
15. 0:37compromises begin the moment you try to
16. 0:39unlock the thing. There is no Face ID
17. 0:41here. So, on the Duo, every time you
18. 0:43unlock, every time you pay, every time
19. 0:44you authenticate something, instead of
20. 0:46just glancing at your phone, you got to
21. 0:47use Touch ID via the side button. And
22. 0:50they have done the obvious stuff well.
23. 0:51The button's raised, so you can find it
24. 0:53without looking. It works for every
25. 0:55banking app that I've tried, just like
26. 0:56Face ID. And you can register multiple
27. 0:58fingers, which is really important,
28. 1:00because you'll probably want your thumb
29. 1:01when you're picking it up in your right
30. 1:02hand, and then your index finger for the
31. 1:04left hand. But the more that I use this,
32. 1:07the more I notice how it is worse in a
33. 1:09bunch of small ways, and
34. 1:12they add up. One, Touch ID is not a tap,
35. 1:14it's a hold. So, feels like a tiny bit
36. 1:16of extra friction 50 times a day. Two,
37. 1:19it can get a little spotty if you've
38. 1:21just washed your hands or they're a tiny
39. 1:22bit greasy. Three, it's only really
40. 1:24comfortable in landscape. Opened up, the
41. 1:26Duo is clearly designed to feel like a
42. 1:29magical sheet of glass that you can
43. 1:31flawlessly use from all angles, like an
44. 1:33iPad Pro. Except the iPad Pro has Face
45. 1:36ID, which works in every orientation.
46. 1:38The Duo relies on this button that is
47. 1:41nowhere near your fingers when you're in
48. 1:43portrait. And then four, the most
49. 1:44noticeable for me is while Face ID
50. 1:46unlocks your phone without any finger
51. 1:48action, so you can immediately start
52. 1:51with your thumb in the optimal position,
53. 1:52Touch ID requires you to first move your
54. 1:54thumb out of the way, unlock, and then
55. 1:56bring it back in. Now, the way that
56. 1:58other foldables address these issues is
57. 1:59by letting you use a basic 2D face
58. 2:02unlock, which just uses the selfie
59. 2:03camera. Whereas, [music]
60. 2:05Apple has clearly decided that it's
61. 2:06either proper Face ID
62. 2:08or nothing. So,
63. 2:11nothing it is. Surely though, this minor
64. 2:13inconvenience is worth it if it means
65. 2:15you can have the largest display ever on
66. 2:18an iPhone. Well, when you start to
67. 2:20really analyze how much more the bigger
68. 2:22screen actually lets you do versus an 18
69. 2:25Pro Max, I'm not as sold as I thought
70. 2:28I'd be. The first thing I tested is
71. 2:29watching videos, and if you're going for
72. 2:31a proper wide-screen movie, then there
73. 2:33is actually zero benefit to the Duo
74. 2:35because the width of this phone is
75. 2:37almost exactly the same as a Pro Max in
76. 2:39landscape. All the extra screen is
77. 2:40height, which just becomes black bars.
78. 2:43Thankfully, most content isn't that
79. 2:45wide. Like our videos, for example, are
80. 2:4718 by 9, and those do come out a very
81. 2:49solid 20% larger on the Duo. And 16 by 9
82. 2:52videos, which is still most of what
83. 2:54you'll find on YouTube, does get you
84. 2:56almost 50% more viewing area. That is
85. 2:59huge. So, generally, there is an upside
86. 3:02to the Duo for video. But, it's the app
87. 3:05experience where things start to feel a
88. 3:07little
89. 3:08mixed. I'd say there's three tiers of
90. 3:10apps. Tier one is the apps built for
91. 3:13this. Basically, a slim selection of
92. 3:15Apple's own, like Books, and then a
93. 3:17handful of third parties who've designed
94. 3:18with the Duo in mind, like Netflix. And
95. 3:21these [music] work beautifully. The
96. 3:23space isn't just filled, it's actively
97. 3:25enhancing the experience. Tier two is
98. 3:28apps that don't feel like they're
99. 3:29designed for this, but ones that scale
100. 3:32somewhat useably, like YouTube. I don't
101. 3:34like this black bar on the side, but the
102. 3:36extra width can allow you to see a bit
103. 3:39more. I'm pretty indifferent here
104. 3:40between using these apps on a Duo versus
105. 3:42a Pro. But, for anything else, tier
106. 3:45three,
107. 3:46I think the bar phone is the better
108. 3:48experience. Because any app that is
109. 3:49designed for a typical iPhone is going
110. 3:51to open like this on a Duo.
111. 3:54>> Fire!
112. 3:55You can swipe down in the blank space
113. 3:57here to bring it closer, or what makes
114. 3:59more sense to me, rotate the phone and
115. 4:01enlarge the window like this. But still,
116. 4:03this is hardly ideal and doesn't at all
117. 4:06feel like a real tablet app. It very
118. 4:08much feels like you're just using an
119. 4:09oversized phone. Go figure. But here's
120. 4:12the [snorts] one that really stung. So,
121. 4:13one of the key reasons that I've been
122. 4:15pining for this phone is so that it can
123. 4:17finally fix Google Docs, which as you
124. 4:19might know is a nightmare on any [music]
125. 4:21proportioned iPhone because there's just
126. 4:23not enough width. So, okay, let's load
127. 4:25it up here.
128. 4:28Oh.
129. 4:29What on earth is that?
130. 4:32So, I can rotate the window, I can
131. 4:34enlarge the window, but all it is doing
132. 4:36is stretching it. It's not reformatting
133. 4:39it to use the space better. And games
134. 4:41are the same story, except I would argue
135. 4:44with even fewer optimized titles to the
136. 4:46point where it really seems like this is
137. 4:48the typical Duo gaming experience, which
138. 4:51does feel like a massive shame and makes
139. 4:54Samsung Z Fold 8 by comparison a much
140. 4:56more desirable experience in many cases.
141. 4:58Now, to Apple's credit, some of the apps
142. 5:00that weren't scaling properly have
143. 5:02actually already been patched during my
144. 5:04testing. And when I brought this issue
145. 5:05up with them, they said that apps will
146. 5:07start filling the screen by themselves
147. 5:09as soon as devs start updating them for
148. 5:11iOS 27.1. All I can say is
149. 5:14I sure hope so because for a $2,000
150. 5:16phone, I expected a significantly better
151. 5:19day-one app experience. Thankfully, the
152. 5:21web doesn't need app developers to show
153. 5:24up. So, Safari is one of the best things
154. 5:27about the Duo. Most pages do take
155. 5:28advantage of the extra space. And
156. 5:30[music] it's not that you necessarily
157. 5:32fit more content on your screen at once,
158. 5:34but I think it gives web pages the
159. 5:36breathing room that they need. And I
160. 5:37really like how Safari on Duo is
161. 5:39designed almost like a desktop browser
162. 5:41with the way that you can see and flick
163. 5:43between your tabs.
164. 5:46Okay, here's the thing with the Duo
165. 5:47though. It's all well and good talking
166. 5:48about the potential upsides of this
167. 5:50biggest iPhone display ever,
168. 5:53>> [music]
169. 5:53>> but we have to also factor in that
170. 5:54realistically, you're also going to
171. 5:56spend half of your time using this much
172. 5:59tinier outer display. [music]
173. 6:00And when you do, I think you're getting
174. 6:03a distinctly lesser experience versus a
175. 6:05normal phone. Because you have the exact
176. 6:07same rather unusual aspect ratio of the
177. 6:10inside, so apps often still won't just
178. 6:13work. Only now without the space of the
179. 6:16inner display to make up for it. [music]
180. 6:18And then you throw in this control bar,
181. 6:19which cuts into your viewing area very
182. 6:22noticeably here, and pushes so much of
183. 6:24the UI off-center in a way that just
184. 6:26doesn't look very polished to me. So, as
185. 6:29far as I'm concerned, half the time this
186. 6:31is a better display experience than a
187. 6:33typical iPhone. But [music] equally,
188. 6:35half the time it's worse. So, while I
189. 6:38came into this expecting a screen
190. 6:39upgrade, for the most part it just feels
191. 6:42like a trade. Now, there are two
192. 6:44exceptions to this. Two things that I
193. 6:46would say are outright better on the
194. 6:48Duo. First is the new standby mode. You
195. 6:50can now use it without needing to be
196. 6:52plugged in. There's new faces and fonts.
197. 6:54Everything's been reformatted to look
198. 6:56very pretty. And the highlight has got
199. 6:58to be this alarm clock, which uses the
200. 7:00inner display to glow while the alarm is
201. 7:02playing. To be clear, it's not going to
202. 7:03replace one of those sunrise alarms if
203. 7:05you actually want to be woken up by the
204. 7:07light itself, because
205. 7:09this just isn't bright enough. But what
206. 7:11it is is an extremely aesthetic [music]
207. 7:14extra. And then, I guess the primary
208. 7:17perk of the Duo
209. 7:18is multitasking. You can't split screen
210. 7:20an app on a typical iPhone, you can
211. 7:22here. And I would say that all the
212. 7:24multitasking capability they have added
213. 7:26is great. I think the way that you start
214. 7:28split screen by throwing apps to the
215. 7:30side is mindless and satisfying. [music]
216. 7:32I really like how you click a link on
217. 7:33one side, it's going to open that link
218. 7:35on the other. And how if there are any
219. 7:37elements that are not centrally aligned,
220. 7:39then when you go into the half-folded
221. 7:41position, they kind of split so that the
222. 7:43fold actually acts as a physical divider
223. 7:46for the content. That said, you play
224. 7:48around enough, you will run into some
225. 7:50limitations like how split screen is
226. 7:52locked at 50/50 on the duo, unlike an
227. 7:54iPad where you can resize. Like how
228. 7:57there's very limited split screen that
229. 7:58you can do in portrait. To be fair, this
230. 8:00isn't exactly made easy on a Samsung,
231. 8:03but at least you can there and there are
232. 8:05a few instances where that makes sense.
233. 8:07The one thing that you can do is have a
234. 8:09video at the top while you browse a page
235. 8:12underneath and
236. 8:13this is awesome, but it does feel like
237. 8:15one unnecessary extra step to get there
238. 8:18because you first have to open the video
239. 8:19you want to watch in full screen, then
240. 8:21you got to close the app to minimize
241. 8:22that video into a floating window, then
242. 8:24open the other app that you want to
243. 8:25scroll before finally dragging that
244. 8:27floating window into the top section.
245. 8:29Apple is also starting to add a bunch of
246. 8:31half folded features. Like if you're
247. 8:33watching a video, you can get controls,
248. 8:35but I really feel like if you're going
249. 8:36to buy a phone like this, you might as
250. 8:38well watch those videos with the whole
251. 8:40screen and just prop the phone up using
252. 8:42a Torras case like the Q3 spinner, our
253. 8:44sponsor. This is everything that I want
254. 8:47from a foldable case. It protects both
255. 8:49halves, proper hinge coverage, the
256. 8:50finish feels fancy, all with the
257. 8:53greatest stand that you can get on a
258. 8:54mobile phone.
259. 8:56I literally use one of these every
260. 8:57single day of my life. And it's when
261. 8:59you're propping your phone up like this,
262. 9:00off angle, under the lights, that you
263. 9:02notice the one thing that really
264. 9:04deserves to be praised.
265. 9:06Nano texture. When you put this phone
266. 9:08side by side with other iPhones or other
267. 9:10foldables, me personally, I think the
268. 9:12picture quality looks 95% as great
269. 9:14head-on. Slightly less contrast, but I
270. 9:17think this is more than outweighed by
271. 9:18how it hides the crease, it masks
272. 9:20fingerprints, and how the moment that
273. 9:22any light hits it, the thing is so
274. 9:25anti-reflective that it even makes other
275. 9:27phones that have anti-reflective
276. 9:28coatings look like mirrors. So that is
277. 9:31everything with the display. Some
278. 9:32genuine wins, but also plenty of
279. 9:35caveats. And here's the thing, the
280. 9:37display is also where the phone's next
281. 9:39problem starts. While it's great to see
282. 9:41that the Duo has the exact same A20 Pro
283. 9:44chip as Apple's Pro phones, the vapor
284. 9:46chamber attached to it has had to be
285. 9:48shrunk because there's less space. And
286. 9:50bear in mind, the Duo has an additional
287. 9:53thermal hurdle that it has to overcome
288. 9:55because when you're using the thing
289. 9:56shut, it's like a display sandwich where
290. 10:00any heat that's generated on the inside
291. 10:02is going to have an extremely hard job
292. 10:04dissipating outside. So, if we run a
293. 10:06stress test for 20 minutes and jump over
294. 10:08to the thermal view, can you see how
295. 10:10compared to the iPhone 18 Pro Max, much
296. 10:13less of the internal heat is reaching
297. 10:15the outside of the phone? It appears to
298. 10:17be cooler, but that's because the heat
299. 10:19is trapped. And you can see this
300. 10:20reflected in the results. While the
301. 10:22Duo's performance does already start
302. 10:24slightly lower than the Pro Max's, it
303. 10:26also falls faster as the stress test
304. 10:28goes on. Although, worth noting that it
305. 10:30still quite handily beats out Samsung's
306. 10:32equivalent. You'll notice a similar
307. 10:34compromise when you open up the
308. 10:36foldables because
309. 10:37>> [music]
310. 10:37>> while heat isn't getting trapped
311. 10:38anymore, you now just have a larger,
312. 10:40higher resolution display that [music]
313. 10:42you have to power. And that's demanding
314. 10:44in its own way. Are you going to notice
315. 10:46these differences day-to-day?
316. 10:49Slightly, not massively. It's just yet
317. 10:51another smaller thing to add to the
318. 10:53list, but probably shouldn't
319. 10:55individually swing your decision. But if
320. 10:57there's anything that is going to, it's
321. 10:58got to be the cameras, right? Because
322. 11:00this on paper is the single biggest
323. 11:02compromise that you have to make if
324. 11:03you're going to go Duo. The main camera
325. 11:05sensor is about 33% smaller than the Pro
326. 11:08with no variable aperture. There is no
327. 11:09telephoto camera at all. The outer
328. 11:11selfie camera is 12 MP instead of the
329. 11:13Pro's 18. And then the inner selfie
330. 11:15camera, this under display thing, shoots
331. 11:18at just four. So, it sounds really bad.
332. 11:21In practice, it actually surprised me a
333. 11:23little because like this main camera for
334. 11:25example, it sucks a lot less than I was
335. 11:28expecting it to. I think clearly the A20
336. 11:30Pro chip is doing the heavy lifting
337. 11:32because in terms of [music] skin tones,
338. 11:34even in terms of like detail, I think
339. 11:36most people will struggle to tell the
340. 11:37difference during the daytime. And this
341. 11:39is just as true for photos. The key
342. 11:41thing that separates the two is just the
343. 11:43slight extra natural background blur
344. 11:45that you're going to get on the Pro. I
345. 11:46was expecting the Duo to tank when it
346. 11:48comes to low light because I mean, if
347. 11:49we're being very honest, it's not
348. 11:51exactly a massive sensor on the thing.
349. 11:53But when you compare that to the Pro,
350. 11:55yes, you'll notice differences. I don't
351. 11:57think the Duo is at all doing badly. In
352. 11:59fact, to make that point, let's bring in
353. 12:01the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for a minute. I
354. 12:03would actually go as far as to say that
355. 12:05the difference between the Samsung and
356. 12:06the Duo is actually larger than the
357. 12:09difference between the Duo and the Pro.
358. 12:11Like just look at the softness of my
359. 12:13face or you know that stuff in the
360. 12:15background that's just become pure noise
361. 12:17on the Samsung. I thought that the
362. 12:19clarity of speech might give it away.
363. 12:21After all, the Duo doesn't inherit the
364. 12:23studio-grade four microphone array that
365. 12:26the Pros have.
366. 12:26>> But I have tried so many side-by-sides
367. 12:29in so many different types of scenarios.
368. 12:31And if this is what the Pro sounds like,
369. 12:33this is what the Duo sounds like. It's
370. 12:36kind of just a reminder of how
371. 12:38disproportionately large of a part that
372. 12:40software tuning and processing are now
373. 12:42playing in the modern camera experience.
374. 12:45>> But one thing that no amount of
375. 12:46processing is going to be able to fix is
376. 12:48the eradication of that telephoto
377. 12:50camera. Because let's say you're at a
378. 12:51concert and you want to zoom in on the
379. 12:53performer. The absolute maximum amount
380. 12:55of zoom you're going to get out of the
381. 12:56Duo is six times in video. And of
382. 12:59course, that's entirely digital. So I
383. 13:01mean, you're just asking to get bullied
384. 13:03if you post this somewhere. Now, this
385. 13:04whole long-range zoom thing is very
386. 13:07annoying, but is only going to crop up
387. 13:09very irregularly. So the thing that I'm
388. 13:11actually more concerned about is the
389. 13:13slightly annoying thing that's going to
390. 13:15crop up all the time. And that's
391. 13:17portrait mode. Because there's no
392. 13:18telephoto, you basically have to choose
393. 13:21on this Duo. Do you want to use the main
394. 13:22camera and go super close, which gives
395. 13:24you a full-quality portrait, but is
396. 13:26going to distort the proportions of your
397. 13:28subject, or do you take a step back and
398. 13:30use digital zoom, at which point you get
399. 13:32much nicer, more correct proportions,
400. 13:35but then the image quality takes a dive.
401. 13:37And then,
402. 13:38>> [sighs]
403. 13:38>> you've got the selfie compromise. So,
404. 13:40when the Duo is folded up, you get a
405. 13:4112-megapixel camera versus the Pro's 18.
406. 13:43And let's put it this way, you will not
407. 13:46confuse the two. The Pro is not just
408. 13:48significantly higher resolution, but
409. 13:50captures way more around you if you want
410. 13:52to go wide. And then, the inner selfie
411. 13:54camera is, to probably absolutely no
412. 13:58one's surprise,
413. 13:59absolutely tragic. It genuinely looks
414. 14:01like I'm shooting this through a
415. 14:03pre-compressed Instagram filter. Apple
416. 14:05specifically calls this a FaceTime
417. 14:07camera, and
418. 14:08I would say, uh, stick to that.
419. 14:11You can take selfies with it,
420. 14:13but don't. I would say, if you have your
421. 14:15phone open and you decide that you want
422. 14:17to, what you should actually do is flip
423. 14:18the whole thing around, swipe this icon,
424. 14:21which deactivates the inner screen and
425. 14:22then activates the outer screen, and
426. 14:24then use this to take the selfie with
427. 14:26your main set of rear cameras. And to
428. 14:28give the Duo its flowers, the fact that
429. 14:30you can even do that to film on this
430. 14:32selfie camera over here is a massive
431. 14:34perk, because while it is a bit of a
432. 14:36maneuver, you could argue that it takes
433. 14:38selfies on this phone from the worst
434. 14:40that an iPhone has had in the last
435. 14:42decade to easily the best. Plus, as well
436. 14:45as the main camera, which then looks
437. 14:46like this, this also opens up the
438. 14:48opportunity to use your rear ultra-wide,
439. 14:50which is extraordinarily wide, while
440. 14:53still being, I would say, very good
441. 14:55quality for selfie standards. And it's
442. 14:57all finished off with a couple of little
443. 14:59extras, like these kid Q animations to
444. 15:02capture the interest of your little
445. 15:03ones, which is a good idea, but feels a
446. 15:06little proof of concept right now, cuz
447. 15:08there's literally zero configurability.
448. 15:10And then, the other one is Smart Take,
449. 15:12which
450. 15:13I can't see myself using. It lets you
451. 15:15prop the phone up, and it'll then just
452. 15:17capture automatically when it thinks
453. 15:19you're posing, and let you know with the
454. 15:20flash each time it's taken something,
455. 15:22which sounds interesting. But, in my
456. 15:23testing, it can't really tell whether
457. 15:25I'm posing or just yawning or
458. 15:28stretching. So, you just end up with a
459. 15:29pile of junk photos in between your good
460. 15:31ones. And most of all, it just reminded
461. 15:33me how much better another person is
462. 15:35going to be at framing your photos as
463. 15:37opposed to just leaving your phone at an
464. 15:38angle that you think might work without
465. 15:41seeing the end composition. So, is the
466. 15:43Duo's camera a deal breaker? For me
467. 15:45personally, yes. I'd miss the telephoto
468. 15:48too much. I'd miss having the best main
469. 15:49camera and even just the nitty-gritty
470. 15:51pro controls. But, I also think that if
471. 15:54you care even a little bit less than I
472. 15:55do and you're happy with the Duo to flip
473. 15:58the thing around every time you want to
474. 15:59take selfies, then
475. 16:01it's not actually as big of a sacrifice
476. 16:03as you might think. But, cameras are not
477. 16:06the only thing that gets squeezed when
478. 16:08you split a phone in two. There's often
479. 16:10less room for speakers, too. So, here's
480. 16:12how the Duo sound.
481. 16:16>> [music]
482. 16:22[music]
483. 16:23>> Hopefully, you could tell the
484. 16:24difference. Vocals not as crisp on the
485. 16:26Duo as they are the Pro. As far as
486. 16:29folding phones go, it's not bad, but
487. 16:31because you don't actually have a
488. 16:32speaker unit that's facing you when the
489. 16:34thing's opened, clarity is going to
490. 16:36suffer. But, if there's one thing that a
491. 16:39giant folding display has the potential
492. 16:41to not just reduce, but absolutely
493. 16:43murder,
494. 16:45it's going to be battery life. So, I run
495. 16:46a small combination of intensive and not
496. 16:48so intensive apps, also including
497. 16:50Samsung Z Fold A in the comparison, and
498. 16:52partway through the test, also closed up
499. 16:54the two folding phones to factor in that
500. 16:57most people probably will spend about
501. 16:58half their time using them like this.
502. 17:00And assuming that you have that balance,
503. 17:03I actually found that the battery isn't
504. 17:05bad at all. The Duo came out on top of
505. 17:08not just Samsung, but also the smaller
506. 17:10iPhone 18 Pro. So, battery is not going
507. 17:12to be a problem. Equally though, the Duo
508. 17:14is still some way away from the 18 Pro
509. 17:17Max, so if that's your alternative
510. 17:19option, then you are leaving a lot of
511. 17:21juice on the table, especially since the
512. 17:22Pro Max that I have here is the physical
513. 17:25SIM smaller capacity version with
514. 17:27slightly slower charging, too. Now that
515. 17:30the phones were flat, I plugged each one
516. 17:32in for exactly 20 minutes, and the Duo
517. 17:34came out bottom of the pack with 42%.
518. 17:37That's not tragic by any means, but a
519. 17:39compromise nonetheless compared to both
520. 17:41Samsung and other iPhones. And bear in
521. 17:44mind, these are the fast speeds which
522. 17:46you only get with Apple's new chargers
523. 17:48or something like the Taurus Flash
524. 17:50iDock, the interactive alternative. It
525. 17:53detects exactly which model is being
526. 17:55plugged in to match it with the optimal
527. 17:57balance of charging speed and
528. 17:58temperature. It gives you wattage and
529. 18:00real-time battery level, and it's just a
530. 18:02bit of fun, too, with all these
531. 18:03expressions and even vibrations. Link
532. 18:06below for more on Taurus. So, the more
533. 18:08that I keep testing this phone, the more
534. 18:10that I feel like we're just going round
535. 18:12and collecting this growing list of
536. 18:14small asterisks, caveats that each on
537. 18:17their own are nowhere near deal
538. 18:18breakers, but if you stack enough of
539. 18:20them up, they start to feel like one.
540. 18:23And
541. 18:23>> [music]
542. 18:23>> I think for me, the one that tips it is
543. 18:26the ergonomics. Because with a foldable
544. 18:28phone, and really this foldable phone
545. 18:30more than most, you spend a lot of your
546. 18:31day stretching, juggling, and
547. 18:34maneuvering the thing just to use it
548. 18:36normally. You're going to open and close
549. 18:38it like 50 times a day. That's a
550. 18:40two-handed operation every time. The
551. 18:42volume buttons have been shunted up to
552. 18:43this odd position at the top. So,
553. 18:45there's a little reshuffle whenever you
554. 18:47want to touch them. And even closed, I
555. 18:49find the far side of this screen a
556. 18:51little out of reach. And I think this is
557. 18:53because while it might look like this
558. 18:55very pretty, very cute little
559. 18:57passport-size device from the front,
560. 18:59there is nothing cute about the heft of
561. 19:02it. This thing is almost 30% thicker
562. 19:04than an iPhone 18 Pro Max. So, you find
563. 19:07that it really fills out your hand, and
564. 19:09you have to grip it properly. Same
565. 19:11against the smaller 18-Pro, while also
566. 19:13being about 20% heavier than that phone.
567. 19:15I even found that when mounted on most
568. 19:17of my MagSafe stands and chargers, the
569. 19:19weight actually causes the phone to
570. 19:21pivot on its own when it's open. So,
571. 19:24when you start to put all of this
572. 19:25together, it really does make me wonder.
573. 19:28The small hassles this thing saves you
574. 19:30on the odd occasion that you need to
575. 19:31split screen two apps or you really need
576. 19:33to juggle a few tabs like this in
577. 19:35Safari, is that actually more than
578. 19:37canceled out by the hassle that this
579. 19:39thing adds every single time you pick it
580. 19:41up? Not to mention, the two biggest
581. 19:43asterisks of all, the price, how the Duo
582. 19:46is not just as expensive as the Pro Max,
583. 19:48but literally $700 more,
584. 19:51and the durability. While it will no
585. 19:53doubt help that Apple's fitted this with
586. 19:54a titanium body and managed to still
587. 19:57preserve the IP68 water and dust
588. 19:59resistance, there is absolutely no doubt
589. 20:01in my mind that this phone has way more
590. 20:04ways to break and way more room for wear
591. 20:06and tear than any normal bar phone. So,
592. 20:09I would say, if you've used foldables
593. 20:11before and you know what you're in for
594. 20:12and you still really, really want a Duo,
595. 20:15then [music] go for it. It does do some
596. 20:16extremely cool things. But, if you're
597. 20:18new to foldables and your kind of
598. 20:20default alternative option would be a
599. 20:22Pro or a Pro Max,
600. 20:24I would
601. 20:24>> [music]
602. 20:24>> strongly steer you this way. I think
603. 20:27it's a better phone.
604. 20:28All right.
605. 20:29Catch you in the next one.