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iPhone Duo vs Omarchy Pocket

Two folding computers.

One of them is an iPhone.

An iPhone Duo, open: a keyboard and trackpad on the lower half of its one folding screen
117.8 mm
iPhone Duo254 g · $1,999
An RG DS Plus, open, running Omarchy Pocket: YouTube on the upper screen, a keyboard and trackpad on the lower
167 mm
RG DS Plus with Omarchy Pocket344 g · $94.99

The differences are large.

We compared them on 26 lines. The iPhone Duo wins 10, including all of the ones you would check first.

Geekbench 6, single core1

26.8×

The iPhone Duo uses a 2 nm A20 Pro with six cores. The RG DS Plus uses a 22 nm RK3568 with four Cortex-A55 cores, a design from 2017.

Single core
iPhone Duo4,722
RG DS Plus176
Multi core, 25.7×
iPhone Duo12,708
RG DS Plus495

Memory

12×

12 GB to 1 GB.

iPhone Duo
RG DS
Plus

Price

21×

Drawn by area. The one result here that goes the other way.

$1,999
$94.99

Refresh rate

2×
iPhone Duo, up to 120 Hz
RG DS Plus, 60 Hz

Shown at one fifth speed.

Battery life

4×
iPhone Duo, up to 24 h
RG DS Plus, about 6 h

Weight

90 g

The one that costs less weighs more.

254 g 344 g

Things the iPhone Duo does not have

iPhone DuoRG DS Plus D-padnone Analog sticknone Face and shoulder buttonsnone Screens you can see at once microSD slotsnone Built-in stylusnone Headphone jacknone

Single-core points per dollar

2.36 vs 1.85

This was the chart we made to win. The iPhone Duo wins it.

Points for each dollar
iPhone Duo2.36
RG DS Plus1.85

And on both of them:

Only on the iPhone Duo

  • Camera
  • 5G
  • 120 Hz
  • 24 h battery
  • App Store

Only on the RG DS Plus

  • D-pad
  • Analog stick
  • Second screen
  • Two microSD slots
  • Stylus
  • Headphone jack
  • YouTube
  • X
  • GitHub
  • Tailscale
  • A VPN
  • Lower-half keyboard
  • Voice input

The iPhone Duo has the App Store. Omarchy Pocket has applets built with PocketJS.

Smoothness

176 points.
60 frames a second.

Omarchy Pocket replaces the desktop graphics stack with one PocketJS process. Windows move at 60 fps on a chip with a twenty-seventh of the speed.2 This is a recording from the device.

176Geekbench points1
60frames a second2
557of 953 MB free, with Tailscale and a proxy on
1graphics process
Geekbench points available per frame
iPhone Duo39.4
RG DS Plus2.9

A metric we devised for this page and do not defend.

Or, for one iPhone Duo:

One iPhone Duo$1,999
$1,994.79$4.21 left
84cores
21 GBof memory
42screens
7.2 kgin your pocket
Their multi-core scores added together: 10,39512,708, one iPhone Duo

Every line.

Geekbench does not add up that way, and it still would not have been enough. Here is the rest.

iPhone DuoRG DS Plus
Performance
Geekbench 6, single core26.8×4,722176
Geekbench 6, multi core25.7×12,708495
ProcessorA20 Pro, 6 cores, 2 nmRK3568, 4 Cortex-A55, 22 nm
Memory12×12 GB1 GB
Display refresh2×up to 120 Hz60 Hz
Battery life4×up to 24 habout 6 h
Hardware
Weight90 g less254 g344 g
Cellular5Gnone
Camerasyesnone
Screens you can see at once12
D-pad01
Analog stick01
Face and shoulder buttons08
microSD slots02
Built-in stylusnoyes
Headphone jacknoyes
What you do on it
YouTubeyesyes
Xyesyes
GitHubyesyes
Tailscaleyesyes
VPN or proxyyesyes, mihomo
Palmtop mode, keyboard on the lower halfyesyes
Voice input on the deviceyesyes
The bill
Price21×$1,999$94.99
Price per YouTube21×$1,999$94.99
Single-core points per dollar2.361.85

The iPhone Duo is the better computer.

This one has a D-pad.

The D-pad and analog stick of an RG DS Plus, up close