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Here's How Thin the iPhone 17 Air Might Be
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surferfb
macrumors 68030
Lots of people. I’d love an ultra-thin phone. (To be clear, I probably won’t get it as the camera is the most important part of the phone for me, but it’s going to be tough).
Everyone should be in favor of Apple pushing the envelope on all sorts of things. For example the engineering required to make a super-thin phone happen will likely lead to discoveries that allow for the main phone to get thinner (or stay the same size and have addition room for batteries).
FlyingDutch
macrumors 68020
Apple is struggling to innovate iPhone design at this point. They tried the Mini, with little success. Then they tried the Plus, clearly with little success too(I don’t know why, TBH… with a ProMotion display I would have choose the Plus over my Pro Max for sure). Now they are trying the “thinner” way.
A 5.5 mm iPhone is something I’d like to see, but very scaring considering how “bendgate” developed at the time.
A 5.5 mm iPhone is something I’d like to see, but very scaring considering how “bendgate” developed at the time.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
A smart observation
They really seem to be out of ideas here and just throwing every variation at the wall to see if anything sticks
I wish they'd at least get ProMotion across the line already .. I think it's time now in 2025 to have that just be "the screen tech they use"
FlyingDutch
macrumors 68020
Indeed. iPhone 16 could have been a “perfect” iPhone , with a ProMotion display. But Apple was scared to make a product too good and affect Pro line sales.
VaruLV
macrumors 6502a
Yep, they are desparately trying to keep their revenue sky high and are seriously lagging behind competition.
What saves them, at least for now - brands prestige and loyalists locked into their ecosystem.
Thats all there is to Apple broadly speaking and they know it.
FlyingDutch
macrumors 68020
I don’t think they are lagging behind no one at this moment. iPhone still is generally the best product. But surely they are trying to diversify their offer without a clear plan.
This doesn’t seem a solution in the right direction to me, but I’ll judge after seeing the final product.
itsmemuffins
macrumors 68040
gonna be fine if it's as rigid as the m4 ipad pro. admittedly, mine did bend, but only a little after i sat on it
Yeah. Apple is just bumbling along having no plan or vision as to what people want in a mobil phone...
Yet they are manufacturing and *selling* 600,000 iPhones (on the average) to repeat customers around the world, every day of the year.
Must be magic or some kind of sorcery.
Yet they are manufacturing and *selling* 600,000 iPhones (on the average) to repeat customers around the world, every day of the year.
Must be magic or some kind of sorcery.
bgillander
macrumors 65816
Some people still want the mini and are going to keep asking for it. Maybe the repeated requests should have been a huge hint for you. Perhaps it’s high time you move on and learn to just read past them, though it is fun to see you continually fuss about them, so it is win/win, either way.
Cunir
macrumors 6502
if it gets any thinner it will give us paper cuts
they should make the back flush with the camera bump and give us another day of battery life
maybe they're working on making it thinner and thinner in case they ever do a foldable phone. then being super thinny makes more sense
they should make the back flush with the camera bump and give us another day of battery life
maybe they're working on making it thinner and thinner in case they ever do a foldable phone. then being super thinny makes more sense
And shrink its overall size to a normal sized phone instead of releasing another phablet.
Maybe they are using this phone as a test bed to see how well the thinness holds up before making the iPhone Flip?
iGüey
macrumors 6502a
Why just a test and not an actual foldable iPhone already?
I really think this time Apple and its leakers intend to fool us by letting us know about thinness and other secondary “features”. If you have payed attention on the leaks and rumors, you may have realized that they haven’t addressed anything about the form factor, but dubious renders.
Think twice, it seems to me that the “iPhone Air” name is just an euphemism to make us know that a completely and different iPhone is coming. So what if the surprising and secret feature of the so-called “iPhone Air” is it’s foldability?
A thinner iPhone with less features, doesn’t has by itself too much sense, unless there is something else really different that have not been revealed yet.
Just connect the dots….
And BTW, may be Apple has taken its time perfectioning the folding screens to not have an ugly, notorious and fragile crease.
Shalev Lazarof
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The-Real-Deal82
macrumors P6
Trying to figure out why I would want an iPhone thinner than the one I have now? It seems to be one of those brags Apple has used over the years that nobody has ever asked for or celebrated. I would rather a slightly thicker phone and more battery capacity personally as that is far more useful.
