Buyer Delays Foldable Phone Purchase to 2027 as Apple Entry May Spur 2nd-Gen Upgrades
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Updated · How-To Geek · Jul 1
Buyer Delays Foldable Phone Purchase to 2027 as Apple Entry May Spur 2nd-Gen Upgrades
3 articles · Updated · How-To Geek · Jul 1
Summary
2027 is the target for buying a foldable phone, with current models judged too iterative to justify their high prices or replace a standard slab phone.
Minimal year-to-year changes drive that delay: recent foldables mostly add faster chips and small design tweaks while persistent complaints—fragile displays, weaker hardware and uneven software optimization—remain.
Apple is expected to enter the category in 2026, potentially with a foldable iPhone, and signs from WWDC 2026 include wider-aspect-ratio developer support and more landscape-ready iOS 27 apps.
First-generation caution also shapes the wait, since early devices often need a second version to fix flaws—much as Samsung's original 2019 Galaxy Fold and later Fold2 showed.
By 2027, a second-generation Apple foldable and Android rivals' responses could finally bring the sharper hardware and software competition the category has lacked.