The iPhone Fold is expected to be launching later this year as Apple’s first foldable smartphone. The most notable thing about it, at least from the leaks we’ve had so far, is its form factor, which means it’s much wider when folded than most of its competitors, while unfolding straight into landscape mode.
Thus, when unfolded, it has an aspect ratio that’s more rectangular and less square than what other similar devices can offer. Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold, seen here next to a mockup of the iPhone Fold, is the exception, as it basically unfolds into a 10-inch tablet, but that one does fold twice.
Compared to the Galaxy Z Fold7 below, the iPhone Fold is obviously smaller when unfolded, but also very clearly more rectangular and less square-shaped.
Finally, here it is next to Huawei’s even weirder Pura X, which is a flip-style foldable with an extra-wide aspect ratio. The iPhone Fold is larger and wider, of course, and folds the other way, but there is an ever so slight resemblance here.
Anyway, all these pictures prove is how unique the iPhone Fold’s form factor will be – we’ve literally never seen something exactly like it. That said, its uniqueness is unlikely to last very long – both Samsung and Oppo have already been rumored to have fired up the copying machines, preparing wider book-style foldables of their own, just in case the iPhone Fold is very successful.
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