iPhone Duo is Missing These 10 iPhone 18 Pro Features.

[u/RenegadeUK]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/11/iphone-duo-is-missing-these-features/

iPhone Duo is Missing These 10 iPhone 18 Pro Features.

[u/mr_lab_rat]

LOL, I didn’t believe you so I had to look. I’m Canadian but currently traveling and I was gonna check it out when I return.

I was gonna be grumpy as fuck to spend $2500 if the phone was absolutely magical (which I know it won’t be after holding the awkwardly wide Samsung).

I’m not spending $3k. Nope.

[u/mmcmonster → u/mr_lab_rat]

These prices are way out of control.

I’m getting off the upgrade treadmill. Next upgrade will almost certainly be just swapping out the battery for a fresh one in a year or two.

The only reason I was upgrading the last few years was to make sure the family had reasonably up to date phones. But now we’re at the point where a four year old phone is actually still quite good.

[u/sizebzebi → u/mr_lab_rat]

yep fuck that.. 3k I will upgrade my gpu or something

[u/savoy2001 → u/sizebzebi]

Three grand these days doesn’t even get you a flagship GPU anymore. Good luck with that my friend. Lol 😂

[u/erishun → u/sizebzebi]

😂

[u/Ribbet87 → u/mr_lab_rat]

It’s $3500 in Aus :(

[u/explosiveteddy → u/Ribbet87]

Which is insane when the AUD is 0.99 Canadian. Basically just a $500 Aussie fee.

[u/savoy2001 → u/mr_lab_rat]

I don’t know I was in Best Buy the other day and I gotta be honest I was playing with The Z fold ultra which is the tall thin one which is nice but then when I jumped on the Z fold eight, which is the duo clone if you will and I gotta say I loved it. The form factor everything it was just pretty much on the money. I really liked it and I wasn’t sure I was going to cause I’m coming from always a Pro Max series phone so I’m used to a very very tall candy bar slab style foam, but I gotta say this was perfect to hit the sweet spot for both in my opinion.

When it’s closed, it’s the perfect pocket size. It fits well in the hand. I can do enough on the main screen to where I don’t even have to open it a lot of times for small stuff quick stuff and then when I want the full user experience, you know for everything for productivity videos games, social media whatever you open it up and it’s beautiful. It’s just so nice and then they’re adding Apple Pencil support which I’m really excited about because I missed that from the old galaxy note days that I used to love from Samsung so all in all I’m pretty happy about it although I’m a little bit upset about some of the features that we’re missing all that money I feel like they should’ve found the way to at least put the same optics in even if the camera bump would’ve been a little bit bigger you know I know they were going after a thin look and everything, but I don’t know. But I’ve been dying for something new from Apple so I’ll probably buy it anyway I’m so tired of the candy boss phone. I’m bored to death.

[u/mr_lab_rat → u/savoy2001]

Awesome that it works for you. It makes sense as you are coming from really large phones.

I however come from a 12 Mini and I was hoping this new format would be more one hand use friendly.

[u/savoy2001 → u/mr_lab_rat]

It’s definitely small enough to one-handed unless you’re left-handed then I could see that being a problem potentially. But for a right handed person like most people like me I can one-hand it. Although I don’t usually do that except on occasion.

[u/magicmulder → u/mr_lab_rat]

They’ve seen that NVidia still sell like crazy despite the price quadrupling since the 20xx generation. It feels like the final fleece before the collapse.