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iPhone Duo Sells 264,000 in China in Ten Days

Huawei still leads cumulative wide-foldable sales in China, but Apple's first foldable is moving at roughly four times Huawei's daily pace.

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A smartphone rear camera module. The Duo is Apple's first foldable; its China tracking numbers come from a leaker, not from Apple. Photo: 人工知能 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Apple's iPhone Duo sold 264,000 units in China in its first ten days, per tracker Ice Universe.

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Apple sold more foldable phones in China in ten days than Samsung and Xiaomi managed in months, tracking data shows.

Tracker Ice Universe's China sales figures, published November 10, 2026, put Apple's iPhone Duo at 264,000 units in its first ten days, ahead of the cumulative pace of Huawei's, Xiaomi's and Samsung's wide foldables in the same market. [Technetbooks — Apple iPhone Duo outpaces rival foldables in early China sales (November 2026)]

The comparison table is a study in rates versus totals. Huawei's Pura X Max leads the category outright with more than 1,174,000 units, but it took 191 days to get there, roughly 6,100 a day. The Duo's 264,000 in ten days is about 26,400 a day. Xiaomi's 18 Fold moved 119,000 in 53 days and Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 moved 71,000 in 87 days, which means Apple's ten-day total exceeds Samsung's and Xiaomi's tracked totals combined. The Duo launched on October 23 in more than 70 countries, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, at a starting price of $1,999. [Technetbooks — Apple iPhone Duo outpaces rival foldables in early China sales (November 2026)] [iPhone Islam — News on the sidelines, week of October 30 to November 5, 2026 (November 2026)]

Supply is the visible constraint: UBS tracking puts the Duo's average wait at 89 days across more than 30 regions, down seven days from the prior week, and Apple executives have said the device is supply-limited. Analyst estimates cluster around five to six million Duo shipments for 2026, roughly a quarter of the global foldable market, with share projections rising toward 40 percent in 2027. The caveat belongs on the whole story: Ice Universe is a supply-chain leaker, not a research firm, these are not Apple's reported figures, and the wide-foldable category being counted is the tracker's own definition. The 89-day waits, at least, are consistent with the demand the numbers claim. [Technetbooks — Apple iPhone Duo outpaces rival foldables in early China sales (November 2026)] [iPhone Islam — News on the sidelines, week of October 30 to November 5, 2026 (November 2026)]

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