New Leak Reveals Radical Design Of Apple’s Folding Phone

That intriguing time of the year has arrived, when objects purporting to be dummies of upcoming iPhones leak into the public domain. Now, a video shows how the folding iPhone may look, comparing it to the iPad mini and upcoming iPhone 18 Pro.

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The iPhone Ultra Dummy Units Surface

These curious metallic lumps, sometimes stratified like igneous rock can provide clear ideas of what the final produce may be like. The video comes from YouTube channel Max Tech, where Vadim Yuryev excitedly describes the silver blocks as the real folding iPhone design.

The folding iPhone, thought to be called the iPhone Ultra or iPhone Fold, is expected to be unveiled in September.

Part of Yuryev’s insistence that they are real comes from the fact that the dummies he showed last year turned out to be “spot-on” representations of the iPhone 17 series.

While that doesn’t prove the latest dummies will turn out to be accurate, it’s certainly a promising start.

Dimensions And The Passport Design

The iPhone Ultra’s shape, leaked by Sonny Dickson earlier in April (full details here), is replicated in Yuryev’s dummy and shows a shape similar to a passport, wide and not that tall.

Yuryev’s measurement of the phone says it’s 11mm thick when folded, 5.5mm when opened — both metrics ignoring the extra bulk from the camera bump. This would mean that each half of the iPhone Ultra is a little thinner than the iPhone Air (5.64mm). Yuryev says the camera bump is massive, by the way, but also says that reports that the wider aspect of the phone would mean it couldn’t fit in a pocket easily have been exaggerated.

iPhone 17 Pro Max And iPad Mini Comparisons

For a sense of the size of the internal display, Yuryev laid the open dummy along the long side of an iPhone 17 Pro Max and the Ultra’s width more or less matched the 17 Pro Max’s length. He also compared it to the iPad mini, pointing out that the open display is about the same height, but not as wide as the iPad mini.

Using the iPhone Ultra when it’s folded should be easy, if the video is anything to go by, as Yuryev’s thumb reached across the most parts of the display with ease.

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