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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Harry McKerrell

Forget the iPhone 16, Apple's first-ever folding phone could arrive in 2026

A pink dummy model of iPhone 16 lying on a wooden surface showing the Apple logo on its back.

Apple is reportedly ready to jump on the folding bandwagon with its first-ever foldable smartphone. According to a report from The Information, Apple's articulated trailblazer, codenamed "V68", is set to arrive in 2026 and will sport a "clamshell" design, doubling over vertically in the same vein as the newly unveiled Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6. 

Details are sketchy at the moment, but The Information claims that Apple is actually in the process of developing the phone now that it's settled on a design, and while rumours have swirled for many years that the Californian company would deviate from its standard iPhone configuration, it appears that it has a concrete plan that has "moved beyond the conceptual stage". 

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