Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
9%
2 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
95/100
404 Media's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
7
Technology
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Apple’s $2,000 folding phone, the iPhone Duo, came out just two days ago and people are already seeing big fat creases down the middle of the folding screen, and some devices are cracked in the same specific spot too.
People waited in line overnight at Apple stores to get this thing, and now we’re seeing photos of heinous cracked and creased-up Duos all over social media.
asserted
we → fold → media
In some cases, the phone screens have cracked along the crease, causing a crashout people are now calling “crackgate.”
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people → crack → crashout
“Had my iPhone Duo for about six hours and had probably opened it fewer than 20 times,” one person wrote on Reddit’s r/iPhoneDuo.
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person → have → iPhoneDuo
“I was showing it to a friend, and as I opened it, I felt something around the internal hinge, underneath the screen.
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I → show → screen
As I continued opening it, I heard an audible crack, and the screen broke right along the hinge.
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screen → continue → hinge
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“How long before I join crack gang?” someone else wrote, posting a photo of their iPhone Duo with a wide, uneven gully down the center of the screen.
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someone → join → screen
Other users report not just a fold, but a bright white line of stuck pixels extending from the center to the outer edge of the screen.
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users → report → screen
iFixit wrote a teardown analysis of the Duo, and speculated that the components around the hinge could be causing this particular white line issue:
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components → write → issue
“One possibility is that a central support bar isn’t retracting properly as the phone closes, potentially putting excessive pressure on the display.
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phone → retract → display
Another involves the curved rails that guide the hinge’s movement, which rise above the surrounding components during folding and could, in theory, interfere with the screen if they fail to move as intended,” they wrote.
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they → involve → screen
Plenty of people seem happy with their creased-up new phone that only cost them two stacks.
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that → seem → stacks
“Folks, it’s a foldable device.
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it → ’ → ?
Just enjoy the fact that you have one,” someone commented on another happy customer’s crease pic.
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someone → enjoy → pic
9to5 Mac reported that most buyers seeing the white line screen glitch have been able to get a device replacement from Apple.
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buyers → report → Apple
Whether Apple will replace a phone that’s showing the center line crease everyone else is complaining about is yet to be seen.
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everyone → replace → crease
Apple did not immediately respond to my request for comment about the crease.
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Apple → respond → crease
Apple released the Duo seven years after Samsung’s Galaxy Fold hit the market.
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Apple → release → market
That line of phones also gets a crease down the middle after using it for long enough that users say gets more noticeable with time.
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users → get → time
But the wait and hype around the Duo has meant gadget YouTubers and journalists have put this thing through extreme paces.
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YouTubers → mean → paces
TheCaseTester tested it with 1,000 folds and saw the crease by the end; Tim Pan folded his 11,500 times and saw a similar result.
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Pan → test → result
CNET’s test with a folding machine they custom-built to test the Duo just passed 55,000 folds.
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they → fold → folds
Journalist Joanna Stern found that after 32,000 folds, it felt “pretty much the same.”
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it → find → folds
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