{"id":137818,"date":"2026-09-09T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/09\/its-going-to-be-a-while-before-you-can-pre-order-an-iphone-duo\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:33:41","slug":"its-going-to-be-a-while-before-you-can-pre-order-an-iphone-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/09\/its-going-to-be-a-while-before-you-can-pre-order-an-iphone-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s going to be a while before you can pre-order an iPhone Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/its-going-to-be-a-while-before-you-can-pre-order-an-iphone-duo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-lede\">Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/iphone-18\" title=\"iPhone 18\" data-kpt=\"1\">iPhone 18 Pro<\/a> event is over. You&#8217;re going to have to wait until October to pre-order and use the iPhone Duo.\n<\/p>\n<p>We suspected from the beginning that the folding iPhone wasn&#8217;t going to arrive day-and-date as the iPhone 18 Pro would. We missed our early guesses on when, though.\n<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscent of the iPhone X, Apple says that pre-orders for iPhone Duo start at 8 AM ET on Friday, October 16. Availability begins on Friday, October 23.\n<\/p>\n<p>And, this is very similar to how the new Mac mini and <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/mac-studio\" title=\"Mac Studio\" data-kpt=\"1\">Mac Studio<\/a> has proceeded. Pre-orders for that were far in advance of a September 22 shipping date.\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to be on the list. At at wallet-punishing $1999 to get in the door, we understand if you&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iPhone 18 Pro event is over. You&#8217;re going to have to wait until October to pre-order and use the iPhone Duo. We suspected from the beginning that the folding iPhone wasn&#8217;t going to arrive day-and-date as the iPhone 18 Pro would. We missed our early guesses on when, though. Reminiscent of the iPhone X, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}