Remember iPod socks? Those brightly colored woolly wraps that swaddled your iPod like it was an infant? Apple sold them starting in 2004 for the better part of a decade. In things we did not have on our bingo card for 2025, Apple has decided now is the time to bring back the knitwear for the latest iPhones.
Meet the iPhone Pocket: a glorified yarn sling for your phone and whatever else you can cram in there without stretching the poor thing into oblivion. If we're being catty, it does look a bit like a sweater you shrank in the wash and then tried to stretch out. Or maybe a mankini.
But hey, it could just be the zhuzh you're looking for.
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The iPhone Pocket is on sale now, but you can't walk into just any old Apple Store and get it. Apple is selling it in 10 select shopping locales, like SoHo in New York, Regent Street in London, Marché Saint-Germain in Paris and Orchard Road in Singapore. Everyone else will just have to order it online like it's from Temu.
High fashion does not come cheap. The short strap design will set you back $150, while the long strap version costs $230.
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Getting our hands on an iPhone Pocket
On Friday, the first day the iPhone Pocket went on sale, CNET's Bridget Carey picked up one each of the long and short versions (blue and pink, respectively) at the Apple Store in fashion-centric SoHo, the only Apple retail store selling it in the US. Customers there could go hands-on with the woven slings, giving the Pocket a stretch or sample slipping their iPhones into it.
The backdrop bag for this short pink iPhone Pocket is an Issey Miyake Bao Bao bag. Apple
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