{"id":207412,"date":"2024-02-23T20:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/report-apples-folding-device-taking-shape-isnt-an-iphone\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:40","slug":"report-apples-folding-device-taking-shape-isnt-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/report-apples-folding-device-taking-shape-isnt-an-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Apple&#8217;s folding device taking shape, isn&#8217;t an iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>A new report, citing &#8220;supply chain sources&#8221; claims that Apple&#8217;s foldable project is now converging on the design.<\/p>\n<p>That means that multiple design elements of the folding device are coming together, suggesting that that phase of the folding project is nearing completion and that Apple is beginning to think about mass production.<\/p>\n<p>The report seemingly suggests that Apple&#8217;s folding device won&#8217;t be ready this year or in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1072\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/02\/apple-foldable-ipad\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Supply chain: Apple's folding device taking shape, isn't an iPhone\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rumors have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_is_building_at_least_two_flipstyle_foldable_iphone_prototypes_report_says-news-61520.php\">strongly suggested<\/a> that Apple is working on at least two flip-style folding devices and that there&#8217;s a very high probability that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_is_working_on_a_78_foldable_for_20262027-news-61459.php\">neither will be an iPhone<\/a>. Apple&#8217;s 7-8-inch foldable prototype could be in the iPad category instead, the company testing the waters before moving the tech to its most popular product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20240221PD221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source (paywalled)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/supply_chain_apples_folding_device_taking_shape_isnt_an_iphone-news-61740.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A new report, citing &#8220;supply chain sources&#8221; claims that Apple&#8217;s foldable project is now converging on the design. That means that multiple design elements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342705,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207412\/revisions\/342705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}