The new Apple iPhone Duo has done much more than give fire to the conversation around foldable phones. It has also stirred up the conversation around repair costs — with its display replacement costing as much as a new iPhone 18 Pro — and how far we can reasonably take them, with ever-increasing smartphone prices. There is a threshold up until which repairing your phone makes sense, but beyond a point, it’s wiser to just put your money down on a new handset.
And we will discover exactly where that limit falls by comparing repair costs with and without insurance, giving you a realistic expectation of how much it would cost to own your handset in the long run with mounting spare part prices.
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