Apple's belated entry to the foldable phone niche is supposedly still coming, and the latest rumors suggest it will debut in 2026.

So here's something interesting for you. Word on the street is that the iPhone 8 is going to be a flip phone. Wait… what? Why in the name of all that is sacred would Apple do this to us?

Development on the iPhone Flip was halted around 2020, the older report noted, in order to focus on a new project, a folding iPad. This device would have an 8-inch display to be around the size of ...

About 510 million flip phones were shipped worldwide in 2016, down from 543 million the year before. Smartphones tripled that number, at about 1.47 billion in 2016, up from 1.44 billion in 2015.

An iPhone Flip is something we've been hoping for, but will we see it anytime soon or is a foldable iPad more likely?

The iPhone Flip here comes in 5 colors, too, including purple, silver, gold, graphite, and red, while the foldable phone's battery is rated as all-day. The T3 take: A foldable iPhone we would buy.

Additionally, Kuo says the company is working on a foldable iPhone with a display as large as 8 inches. That’s just a bit larger than the 7.3 inch screen found on the Samsung Galaxy Fold 4.