While there has been a lot of excitement around the iPhone Duo, its launch hasn’t been faultless, with high demand leading to shipping delays and — more worryingly — some users reporting that their phones are already breaking.

Specifically, a small number of users have reported the hinge cracking and causing the screen to break, but is this the start of ‘crackgate’, or are these just isolated incidents?

Going by social media, we’d lean towards the latter — there have been a fair few reports across Reddit and elsewhere, but relative to how many people have received an iPhone Duo, it’s a drop in the ocean.

It’s also possible that some of these cracked hinges were caused by careless use of the phone. Foldables are inherently more fragile than standard handsets, but the iPhone Duo will be many people’s first foldable, and they may not all be used to how it should be treated yet.

Indeed, YouTuber CuriousHagi was able to replicate the issue but — as some Reddit users pointed out — only by intentionally bending the phone backwards as part of a durability test. So it’s not yet clear whether most of these cracked screens are from similar (albeit perhaps less extreme) misuse or normal handling of the phone.

Either way, with all the screens seemingly breaking at the same point, it suggests there could either be a design flaw present in the iPhone Duo — which would be a big problem for Apple — or simply a defect in some units, which would be a more isolated and easily fixable issue.

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