What is the aspect ratio of the iPhone Duo and how does it compare to existing devices?
ASKED BY · Unknown · 14 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:54:40
The closed iPhone Duo has a 1.4:1 aspect ratio (similar to IMAX); when open, it becomes 1.4:2 (double the width). This breaks from standard iPad (4:3) and iPhone (16:9) ratios, requiring apps to be responsive and redesigned, and potentially enabling new UI options like left-hand dock placement.
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54:18A couple of those things like having the face, like being able to do dual screen FaceTime. Again, it's way cool. Dual camera. Again, like I just, it's way cool. And so, you know, they said later this year, so Verizon is my carrier, and they said that they're, you know, they're going to have this switch thing where you can, you know, whichever one you pick up.
54:40But like even I just cannot justify carrying around $5,000 of iPhone. It's just it's like, no, like at some point, you're just like, that's nuts. That is absolutely crazy. Yeah, I think the four terabyte one in Australian dollars is like 18 grand or something. Because it's three and a half grand for the base model. So it actually is, for me, it's the same
55:10price as the Vision Pro. Yeah, $2,700 US for the one terabyte iPhone Duo. And like, again, that is safely a thousand dollars more than you know than the new one of this that you know that i will get also i'm pretty pleased that they've got a flat a flat matte black finally we'll see like again with colors we'll see it may or may not actually be black but uh i'm looking forward to it
55:38it's all happening on friday nice yeah oh i can't even i kind of i was trying to choose i was trying to choose it to see what it was at four oh the four terabytes not even available there um i saw it initially so four terabyte does sound pretty nuts on a phone and sold out of me i just jumped up no it's it's it's
56:03the 18th so is that on friday i'll have it on the 18th next friday yeah next friday okay this friday this upcoming friday well whatever it is i'll have it on the 18th so the next office hours I'll answer all your questions. It doesn't come. Courtney wants to comment, and I think it would be awesome if you were like, do you know what?
56:26I'm going to buy the iPhone. I'm throwing my Samsung phone that I've had for seven years. The day that Courtney gets a duo. No, I'm not. But what I'm going to point out is I'm going to stick up. You know I would never buy one. But I'm wondering what was Apple thinking when they designed this thing, when they moved the user interface to the right edge of the screen?
56:52I'm left-handed. And for all the people that want to hold the phone in their left hand and access stuff or click on icons to launch things, it's going to take two hands. So yours will just be upside down. Just learn how to use it right-handed. It's the right way. You're holding it wrong, Courtney. Yeah, you're holding it wrong, Courtney. we're gonna dig up steve jobs to go hey you're holding it wrong you have to change to be a left
57:17wasn't steve jobs left-handed for all our lefties that uh wasniac is left-handed wasniac that's right yeah so that was i found that very odd and that the fact that you couldn't change it at least not yet maybe that'll be the first thing the first gonna be like the watch they're gonna have a way that you know it's gonna be upside down for you but like that's like a duck yeah it's like a dock
57:39Every now and again, I'll get onto someone's Mac and they'll have the dock on the left-hand side of the screen. I'm like, everyone has the dock on the bottom. Why is it on the side? I have the dock on the left for a really good reason. You've got more space this way than this way. Sure. But you also have a hidden dock.
57:59It's like it's hiding. Honestly, do you know what my dock is? Command space bar. I never use the dock for anything. No, sure. Me neither. Yeah, that's true. anyway the thing that i think is just the windows key you don't have to do these crazy combinations so much better it's half the amount of keystrokes every key counts yeah um so the thing i thought
58:27about the duo was okay now now we're really going into completely different um screen ratios and things. Because like, we already have the iPad, kind of like this 1610 type or, you know, 4.3, I guess it is, isn't it? The iPad. And then you have the iPhone 16.9. And so mostly people are able to design their apps around those sort of two ratios generally. Now it's
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