{"id":23361,"date":"2026-09-10T19:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:05:01","slug":"this-iphone-duo-case-is-pure-1999-throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/this-iphone-duo-case-is-pure-1999-throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone Duo Looks Better in iMac G3 Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Okay, this might be my favourite iPhone Duo<\/a> case yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigen has just teased a new case<\/a> for the iPhone Duo<\/a> that looks like it wandered straight out of an Apple store circa 1999<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Spigen on X<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The colourful, translucent design is unmistakably iMac G3<\/a> \u2014 the era when Apple wasn\u2019t afraid to make its computers look like actual objects of desire. Bright colours, translucent plastic and that wonderfully playful aesthetic that made the original iMac feel completely unlike anything else on a desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, somehow\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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it\u2019s coming to your pocket.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The case gives the iPhone Duo<\/a> a colourful retro shell while still letting the phone\u2019s modern design do most of the talking. It\u2019s a pretty perfect collision of old and new:<\/strong> Apple\u2019s newest, most futuristic iPhone<\/a> wrapped in one of the company\u2019s most recognisable design languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something particularly fun about that combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The iPhone Duo<\/a> represents a very different kind of Apple design. It\u2019s thin, foldable and decidedly futuristic. The iMac G3 was the opposite \u2014 chunky, colourful and almost deliberately friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colourful iMac G3 – Apple<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Put the two together and the result feels like something Apple itself might have made if the late-\u201990s design team had somehow been handed an iPhone Duo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigen clearly knows exactly what it\u2019s tapping into here, too. This isn\u2019t the first time the company has revisited Apple\u2019s colourful hardware history with its Classic cases. (YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And honestly? \u2014 I\u2019m here for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve spent years making our iPhones increasingly minimal, black, silver and serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe the iPhone Duo<\/a> deserves to have a little fun.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, this might be my favourite iPhone Duo case yet. Spigen has just teased a new case for the iPhone Duo that looks like it wandered straight out of an Apple store circa 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,16],"tags":[3010,3648,4,3645,3647,2657,9,3595,3646,3501,3581,517,3570,1909],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-iphone","tag-accessories","tag-aesthetic","tag-apple","tag-cases","tag-classic","tag-colourful","tag-design","tag-foldable","tag-imac-g3","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-duo","tag-retro","tag-spigen","tag-teaser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23383,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions\/23383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}