Excited to Take Deep Zoom Photos With Your Foldable iPhone? Get Ready for Disappointment
Reports suggest that Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone will lack a telephoto camera lens, a feature standard on the company's Pro-series smartphones. Despite a high expected price point, the device may prioritize form factor over advanced optical zoom capabilities.
Why it matters
This potential hardware omission could impact the market reception of Apple's first foldable device among power users who prioritize camera versatility.
The foldable iPhone is probably the hottest consumer product in the world that officially doesn’t exist. Its gravitational pull is such that a similar product from Samsung , one of Apple’s chief competitors, serves as a de facto advertisement for the foldable iPhone just by existing. And if the rumors are true, at the time of its release it will be Apple’s flagship product by default, apparently setting consumers back up to $2,500, and that’s if they can find one .
But according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman , it will lack one of the key features expected by premium smartphone connoisseurs in the 2020s: telephoto photography.
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