Apple Reportedly Delaying Launch of 5.5-Inch 'iPhone Air' Due to Battery Issues

[mdridwan47]

Yeah, right. Where do people finds these news ? I could make much more believable news.

 

[charlesdayton]

Has anyone notices in the renderings: Where are the antennas

Metal phones need plastic separators for the antennas!

 

[Rogifan]

Has anyone notices in the renderings: Where are the antennas

Metal phones need plastic separators for the antennas!

Renders don't have to work they just need to look good.

 

[Oshawapilot]

A product that hasn't been announced nor has it had a release date announced has been delayed? Interesting...

Good point.

For all those people who say the phone is already thin enough: pick up an iPod Touch and tell me you don't think the 5/5S felt like a brick afterwards.

I prefer the thickness or the iPhones myself. The iPod Touch always feels like it's one butterfinger away from a trip to the floor and a broken screen.

 

[Lerxt]

I love how thin they are becoming. I just would like to compare the two, but I'll prob go for the 4.7

 

[ThatsMeRight]

This sounds so ridiculous. It's like that time when Phil Schiller said: "Oh yeah, the iPod touch is so thin, we couldn't fit an ambient light sensor into it."

What about... make the device 0.5 mm thicker - and give it some great battery life.

 

[indychris]

A product that hasn't been announced nor has it had a release date announced has been delayed? Interesting...

I think Mark Twain would have gotten a kick out of that one, too!

It sort of resembles his statement, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"

 

[samcraig]

Apple - your solutions is simple. Make the iPhone a little thicker.

 

[Blakjack]

For all those people who say the phone is already thin enough: pick up an iPod Touch and tell me you don't think the 5/5S felt like a brick afterwards.

The iPod Touch some will argue is too thin. Its definitely too thin for me.

 

[ColdShadow]

the iPhone 5S is already thin enough.

no its not.

 

[MartiNZ]

Apple - your solutions is simple. Make the iPhone a little thicker.

iPhone - The Plot Thickens.

Yeah this is fun stuff. A rumoured product is rumoured to be delayed ... vs when it was rumoured to be coming. People who make rumours have too much power .

 

[gto55]

stop with Ive's obsession with thin devices, make an iPhone with a reasonnable battery or don't complain if people move to LG or else...

 

[Frizers]

Perish the thought that they might decide on the battery before committing to a design. One of the good things about a big screen is supposed to be more space for more battery. To quote pretty much everyone, who wants it to be any thinner?!

 

[Asshh]

Hmmmmmmmm

So a reported phone, reported to have a 5.5" display is reported to have been delayed due to reported battery design constraints...Allow me to retort: THE PHONE NEVER EXISTED!

 

[Rogifan]

So a reported phone, reported to have a 5.5" display is reported to have been delayed due to reported battery design constraints...Allow me to retort: THE PHONE NEVER EXISTED!

I'll be shocked if we ever see a 5.5" iPhone.

 

[samcraig]

The Apple Holographic iPhone 12 is reportedly being delayed because of an issue with the force.

You heard this rumor here FIRST!!!

 

[KPOM]

So Apple designed a phone w/o considering the reality of battery technology? This story doesn't seem credible.

Jony Ive designs something first and then asks engineering to figure out how to make it a reality. It goes back to the Steve Jobs era.

 

[Rafagon]

Apple won't stop until its phones are the thickness of a credit card. It's sad, but Apple seems to have a case of body dysmorphic disorder when it comes to their iPhone.

 

[KPOM]

Apple - your solutions is simple. Make the iPhone a little thicker.

That's not the Apple way. Delaying a phone in order to make it thinner is exactly something Steve Jobs would have done.

 

[cal321]

They could always have it half a mm thicker. Oh wait... this is Apple...

 

[Tankmaze]

I never believe apple would release second iphone in december for the 5.5,
4.7 inch is big enough for a smartphone.

 

[Bfisher003]

Why does Apple feel the need to make the iPhone thinner and thinner? I would gladly have my iPhone 5 be a millimeter or two thicker if the extra thickness was all battery. I would really prefer more battery capacity. The 5 and 5S are so thin already you almost have to put them in a case just to be able to hold onto them. Make the 6 a bit thicker with more battery capacity, please!

 

[HiRez]

So wait, they designed the whole thing out, and then decided to try to find a battery to fit? What?? Seriously, enough with the freakin thinness, make it thick and last 48 hours. The weight on a tablet matters a lot, on a phone not so much.

 

[bsolar]

Has anyone notices in the renderings: Where are the antennas

Metal phones need plastic separators for the antennas!

Maybe they are not metal phones.

 

[Bfisher003]

perish the thought that they might decide on the battery before committing to a design. One of the good things about a big screen is supposed to be more space for more battery. To quote pretty much everyone, who wants it to be any thinner?!

amen!