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iPhone 17 Air Expected to Have Battery Case Due to 'Worse' Battery Life
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Make the phone stupidly thin to claim “courage” but make battery life terrible so they can double dip on a battery case. Sounds about right for Apple and Tim “penny pincher” cook.
Hey, even though Apple is losing customers left and right, as long as he pleases the stakeholders! Can only do that for so long before you face the reality that you have not enough customers AND you’re not making profits for stakeholders. Timmy probably has it all planned out by the time that happens, he’ll be heading out the door and it won’t be his (BIG) problem
I’m very satisfied with mine, the performance, including battery life, has been excellent.
Esim only! I love it. I have stopped using Physical SIMs completely & love the experience. I can't wait for this to go global
Came here to say this. The mini sold something like 12% of market share in 2021, and everyone screamed that it didn’t move enough volume to justify continuing. But somehow, they already know this 17 Air will only make up 10% of sales and it was greenlit anyway.
So? That makes no sense since they’re already expecting no one to buy this 17 Air.
I had a 12 mini, and still have a 13 mini that I use as a work phone. My spouse had a 12 mini and upgraded to the 13 mini, as well. I had several friends who bought either the 12 mini or 13 mini and loved them, too. For a while, almost everyone I knew had a mini when they were current or only one-year-behind models.
It’s a great phone that was only flawed by not getting a telephoto lens instead of the ultrawide.
Not sure why this is news, Apple has released a battery case for nearly every phone for the past 5 years. Why would the air be different.
That being said I will still buy this, and no I dont ever use cases nor do I ever plan to. I am near a charger 99.5% of my day.
That being said I will still buy this, and no I dont ever use cases nor do I ever plan to. I am near a charger 99.5% of my day.
Agreed -- the idea of this *sounds* amusing, but it could work. What I'm envisioning is something that with the battery pack is about normal phone thickness (with case), but the battery pack easily pops off when not needed.
I'm not sure if I'm getting this or not, but I'm intrigued.
In what world is this acceptable. SMH time for a new team over there.
This battery pack idea is taking me back to the days of my Nokia, which had a thin battery (removable), but also an analogue radio attachment (they removed the backward radio stuffs to make the phone thinner), so if you wanted/needed to access older network with far more coverage, your phone, with analogue pack in between the battery and the main phone, left you with one chunky device, almost as thick as it was wide.
It was cool at the time, for having a smaller phone when in town.
I’m fine if the battery life is bad, more time for doing other more useful things
The sacrifice of camera, speakers and battery for the thin form factor would mean an overall poorer user experience just for the sake of being thin. Then if you mitigate by buying this battery case, well why not just buy the standard model and have the extra camera, speaker etc
And those MagSafe battery packs were awesome for people on the go all the time. I really miss them
And those MagSafe battery packs were awesome for people on the go all the time. I really miss them
They could easily pack more battery by using recent tech which are already used by many brands, but no. Gotta cut the costs as much as possible
I can see some users of the 17 Air sometimes using a MagSafe battery but not a battery case. I can't really see 17 Air users using a case at all. Most people use cases (many also don't) but the whole point of the 17 Air is to show off how thin it is. If you didn't want to show that off then why get such a thin phone at all? I suspect most that buy a 17 Air will simply make a point of charging whenever they can so they don't need any extra battery when out showing it off.
That case would probably make the iPhone 17 Air thicker and heavier than the regular iPhone 17, defeating the purpose of the iPhone 17 Air. That's some typical Tim Cook-style incompetence.
I was absolutely going to buy one as soon as it came out. Now I’m absolutely not going to buy one.
People got scared off by reviewers about the battery life. They always exaggerate for the clicks/views. In my experience, it easily lasts the whole day of heavy usage while traveling (so lots of camera and Maps/GPS usage)