Mar 6, 2025BF3-0865Partly right
Kuo: Foldable iPhone hinge uses steel and titanium
The hinge will use stainless steel and titanium alloy.
Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple's foldable iPhone hinge would use stainless steel and titanium alloy, in a device he expected to skip Face ID for a side-button Touch ID sensor instead, per 9to5Mac.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe hinge will use stainless steel and titanium alloy.
- Who said it, and whenMing-Chi Kuo reported it on Mar 6, 2025 in 9to5Mac.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone Duo was announced on Sep 9, 2026, 552 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyPartly rightSome of this was right and some of it was not.Why: Titanium held: Apple describes a grade 5 titanium frame and 100 percent recycled titanium in the hinge cover. Apple names no stainless steel anywhere in the iPhone Duo specification, so that half is not supported. What the company published
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- Reported by
- Ming-Chi Kuo
- We read it in
- 9to5Mac
- Product
- Apple iPhone Duo · reported as “foldable iPhone”