Duo, Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone that was announced at the company’s Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, contains many surprises, including a key cover designed and built with the help of AI and 3D printing.
The new phone represents Apple’s first foray into the foldable phone category, a type of device that has seen a lot of consumer enthusiasm but. Factors that form Does not always live up to the hype. As you might expect from a product that, by design, goes through twice the wear and tear of traditional equipment, most of the foldables have suffered significant damage and. No tolerance of other smartphones.
Apple claims it has incorporated innovative protection into the Duo’s design to keep the phone from falling victim to the wear and tear common to folding. That includes brochures, according to Johny Srouji, the company’s chief hardware officer.
“During production, we use AI algorithms to precisely match each hinge with the most suitable housing to ensure perfect alignment, and a confocal laser performs a topology scan of every single unit and 3D prints up to 25 microlayers of customized photopolymer to eliminate residual waviness,” Srouji said at the Wednesday meeting.
Srouji also shared that Apple has given the foldable phone “a custom nano coating that greatly reduces glare and reflections,” as well as a multi-layer coating strategy designed to increase the device’s durability. Of course, it remains to be seen whether those protections will be enough to keep Duo in peak physical condition long term.
