- Apple’s folding iPhone is on sale to go on sale in September 2026, based on a new rumor
- A well -known Apple analyst states that he will enter production next year
- They also say that their sales will be affected by their high price
Apple’s long -awaited iPhone must enter production next year, according to a leading analyst, which puts it ongoing for a launch together with the iPhone 18 range in September 2026.
Publishing in X, Ming-Chi Kuo also said that Apple is anticipating relatively low sales of its folding, due to what it says will be its “premium price.”
If Kuo is in the money, this would mean that there is not much to happen before we glimpse the company’s first attempt in a folding device. Then, we will finally discover how Samsung Galaxy Z fold 7 is going against the rumored.
It is rumored that the folding iPhone comes with a low exhibition camera, an almost invisible seam, a beautiful screen and an impressive battery life. All that means that it will not be cheap, what Kuo seems to confirm, and that is a key concern of mine.
The price barrier
In the X Post, Kuo said that recent rumors have affirmed that Apple has ordered 15-20 million units of the device. However, Kuo revealed that this is probably the figure of “the life cycle of 2-3 years of the product”, which puts sales estimates for each year.
The importance of that is that Kuo says that the lowest annual estimates are reduced to the “premium prices” of the folding. As with the expensive headphones Vision Pro, the sale price of the folding iPhone of the sky will put many people, including myself, while I die to try this new evolution in the iPhone alignment, I am not willing to sell a kidney to get one.
How much are we talking here? Previously we have seen reports that Apple could price the folding iPhone anywhere between $ 2,100 and $ 2,500. For the context, the most expensive iPhone at this time, the iPhone 16 Pro Max, begins at $ 1,199, which makes the folding iPhone approximately double expensive.
We will not know with certainty, of course, until the folding iPhone really starts. But with that date approaching rapidly, it could be out of the reach of the majority of Apple customers.
