Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design
Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design
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Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design
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Bendgate 2.0
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Zach from JerryarigEverything is gonna snap this like a well tempered Hershey bar.
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Probably why it has a titanium frame even though aluminum would've been lighter. I guess if you really want to break it you can (as you can with any phone), but I doubt accidental bends will be an issue.
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Leave it to Apple to put a small phone battery, to sell another battery for you to stick it outside the case, and kill the inside battery faster by using the most inefficient energy transfer technology. This must check all the money related boxes for their accountants. Bravo.
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but next year they will invent the folding phone.
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Ultra-Thin
but why
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Because it looks impressive
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You can actually feel the radiation!
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Because Samsung did it.
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Samsung did it because it leaked Apple was always doing this.
It’s likely a test case for their upcoming foldable. If they make it this thin they can Cana decent idea of some of the failure modes of the foldable that they may not have predicted.
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So you can roll it. Probably.
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I really wanna see how successful this model will be. I’d never accept thinness as a trade off.
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I'm interested. Thinness isn't as much of a draw as weight to me. I have a 16 Pro now and am kinda tired of how heavy it is. As long as the battery gets me through a 16 hour day that's all i need.
Also if I need extra battery life, they brought back the magsafe battery which i can keep in a backpack. Best of both worlds.
Also brought back bumper cases which I loved.
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I feel they'll sell less in quantity, but make money on the accessories? They did mention them specifically during the presentation of the iPhone 16 Air.
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Only the 1 camera? And still the full width camera bump? And it's a full width camera bump that won't sit flat
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That camera bump contains the camera and the phones logic board. It’s basically the entire phone minus the battery and screen.
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Believe it or not, I love this design.
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I'm glad there's one person out there at least. Will you buy it though?
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No, I have an 15 pro which I will not be replacing anytime soon. But if I was to buy a new phone now, I would consider it.
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Who wants this?
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so smaller battery (meaning you will need to replace it earlier, which is bad), larger screen than the base model while having a smaller capacity (making battery life even worse…) compromised cameras (no ultrawide and no telephoto, “optical quality” crop in does not count…), compromised speakers (only the amplified earpiece speaker?), possible durability issues (which may be partially remedied with a case, but that defeats the point of a thin phone…), worse thermals (esp. with the “Pro” chip, albeit one less GPU core, also will make battery life extra worse. iOS 26 is sure to make the thermals worse too…), and more expensive.
For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?
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For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?
so you drop it faster, so then you have to buy a thick rubber case. Smart phones are stupid.
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To me the only purpose of this is to beta the thin design before a folding phone. Other than that, it’s kinda dumb.
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Ok now make it twice as thick and half as tall.
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finally got 120hz in the base model too
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Thin = more battery swap services anyone who says otherwise is Apple shill
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EU should mandate removable back phones like we used to have. Not this hot glued shit, save that for Tesla trucks.
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It features a 6.5-inch OLED display
Not even sub 6. 😞
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They are making stupid big phones to set themselves up for when they invent the folding screen models in 2026. Folders are great, but others have been making them for years.
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I have seen one and I have my doubts. Perhaps another 10 years.
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Like the blue colour , but don't understand appeal of ultra thin phones
Remember my 1st reaction to macbꝏk airs I think , my very 1st thought wasz "unbelievably fragile , who would use this , what if you drop it"
IMHO there's sweet spot of phone thickness
- Just thin enough to be comfortable to hold without feeling like shattering into zillion pieces if you drop it
- Just thick enough to (feel solid in hand|lay flat on table|have all necessary ports) without being tꝏ uncomfortably heavy to hold in 1️⃣ hand
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MacBook Airs are surprisingly robust though.
A lot of people really like the aesthetics of thin tech, be it phones, TVs, laptops, screens, watches, Coffee machines, …
It may not be for you, but it sure is for a lot of people.
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Ultrathinness in (TV|stationery monitor)s can understand , not so much for stuff you carry around unless made of super durable material . Dunno how gꝏd materials being used in thin phones currently are
Also would only consider getting such thing if thinness was just purely cosmetic didn't sacrifice (performance|battery life|camera quality|.)
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After seeing this model was getting the A19 Pro, I was half expecting the Pro to get the M5. Honestly, depending on thermals and size, that could work.
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The A19 pro in the air is different from the one in the pro
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Camera bump
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Uh oh, it's gonna be the lumia 1520 all over again.
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Thin... is this their definition of thin? That fucking camera will be a balancing problem.
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I wanted a small phone, not a thin phone. 😭
For every person who likes small phones, there’s a thousand people who’d rather buy a 7" behemoth. I’ll be using my 13 mini for as many years as I can, but we’ve lost the battle :(
At least the Air is probably more comfortable to use than the others
They tried for a few years and it obviously didn't sell very well. People want large screens.
Personally, as much as I like the idea of it and missing my iPhone 5, I couldn't bring myself to buy a Mini.
The mini was quite a compromised phone. And I get it, they have to make it look good. They don’t want some thick ass small phone with an apple logo on the back. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I want.