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You might have a hard time trying to get hold of one yourself for the foreseeable future, but the iPhone Duo has been in the hands of reviewers for a little while now. And while it is clearly a first-generation product, overall impressions of Apple's first foldable have been broadly very positive. One potential annoyance for anyone coming from another modern iPhone, however, is the lack of Face ID, with Apple instead opting to go back to Touch ID for the first time since 2022's iPhone SE. Most iPhone users will have been using Face ID since the iPhone X. In our own review we said the Touch ID solution here works accurately, but can take a bit longer to unlock the phone than you might expect, and according to reliable Apple insider Mark Gurman, the company is already looking at how it can bring its newer technology to the iPhone Duo's inevitable follow-up.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Don't preorder from Apple - try this instead Estimates for Duo preorders are now showing a ship date of late January, marking a new wait time record for Apple and its customers. Lance Whitney is a technology journalist with an IT background. He's written for TechRepublic, PCMag, Macworld, and Time, among others, He also teaches classes in AI, cybersecurity, and social media. Shipping estimates for iPhone Duo preorders now show January 25.

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Just ahead of Apple's smart home event on Tuesday, we may finally have a name for the long-awaited smart home hub. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the device that will serve as a Siri command center for a user's Apple-powered smart home will be called the "HomeView" and will make its big debut during the company's "Welcome home" event. The smart home hub is expected to pair with Apple's other smart home devices, like the HomePod mini that's also expected to get a refresh. However, Gurman explained that the "View" portion of the name is meant to convey that the device will be a display that is primarily controlled through Siri and voice commands, instead of something like "HomePad," which would imply a tablet experience. According to Gurman, the HomeView will come in a countertop version with a metal speaker base in space gray, silver, starlight and pink color options, as well as a wall-mounted model that will only come in space gray and silver.

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After finally making Siri a half-decent assistant in this year's round of major OS updates, it looks like the smart home is going to Apple's big area of focus in the coming months. Reliable Apple insider Mark Gurman revealed earlier this week that the company's long-awaited home hub could arrive later in October, and in the debut episode of his new Power On podcast, he predicted that a security camera may follow. As well as the home hub device, which will be the centrepiece of the whole Siri-led smart home push, Gurman claims that Apple will also launch more powerful versions of the HomePod mini and Apple TV, which will both support the new Siri AI ecosystem. But the camera is arguably more interesting, as much for what it can't do as what it can. The Bloomberg reporter says the camera device is a companion product to Apple's also as-yet unannounced smart home display, which the company is referring to internally as J490.

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Apple's long-awaited Home Hub will reportedly arrive on October 13th, according to Bloomberg's reliable Apple whisperer Mark Gurman. The Echo Show-like device, rumored for a couple of years, will be at the center of Apple's expansion into smart home technology and be a key launch for Apple's newly minted CEO, John Ternus. Gurman predicted that a home hub device with a display, camera and microphone was nearly ready, and such a device recently appeared in macOS Tahoe 27.6 under the code-name J490 as well. The home hub will supposedly be in the form of a 6-inch square display, with both countertop and wall-mounted versions, according to Gurman's sources, who asked not to be identified. It may resemble the 2002 iMac, the one with a pivoting display that sat on a half-sphere base.