{"id":1043949,"date":"2026-10-16T09:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043949"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:07:34","slug":"iphone-duo-at-rs-2-9-lakh-why-it-costs-more-but-offers-less-than-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/iphone-duo-at-rs-2-9-lakh-why-it-costs-more-but-offers-less-than-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Duo at Rs 2.9 lakh: Why it costs more but offers less than Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a matter of a few days before Apple will put the iPhone Duo on sale globally. The Duo is Apple\u2019s gamble in the foldable smartphone space, bringing the iOS experience as close to the iPad without letting go of the phone functions. As a result, it carries a premium that no other foldable phone has commanded so far \u2013 it starts at Rs 2.9 lakh in India! That\u2019s almost a lakh more than Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra \u2013 one of the most feature-loaded foldable phones we have seen this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a matter of a few days before Apple will put the iPhone Duo on sale globally. The Duo is Apple\u2019s gamble in the foldable smartphone space, bringing the iOS experience as close to the iPad without letting go of the phone functions. As a result, it carries a premium that no other foldable phone has commanded so far \u2013 it starts at Rs 2.9 lakh in India! That\u2019s almost a lakh more than Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra \u2013 one of the most feature-loaded foldable phones we have seen this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043966,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043949\/revisions\/1043966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}