I am a mini fan. I am still using my iPhone Mini 12 and have refused to upgrade. I am very excited for the 17 Air. It was never about screen size for me, it was about weight. I don’t want to carry a brick in my shorts pocket… which is what every iPhone since the 5 (and the 12/13 mini too but the 5 was nicer) feels like.
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iPhone 17 Air: Here's What Apple's Thinnest iPhone Ever Will Look Like
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It really needs to match the battery life of the base iPhone 16 at least. If its closer to the 13 Mini then it will get a lot of criticism for sure. But then again some people may be fine with a lightweight, large screen iPhone with average battery life.
Anyone else just getting (even more) hacked off with Apple's obsession with thinness?
I feel the opposite. Still lugging my weighty 14Pro, I may just sacrifice some lenses for a lighter experience.
And this was a titanium phone. I imagine Apple's aluminum solution won't be any better. Bendgate 2.0?
What is the point of this huge camera bump when the lens itself is still sticking out like wtf. At least on Pixel, it's flush with the bump
It is indeed confusing. What's the 17 Air positioning? High end or low end market? It's kinda like iPhone 16e with single camera, but that kind of thinness will obviously demand premium pricetag. Not to mention the risk of losing USB-C port because it'd be too thick to fit in, or at least dumbed down to USB 2.0 speed, as usual.
I was able to go hands-on with the S25 Edge at Best Buy yesterday, and, as a former iPhone 12 mini (and current iPhone 16 Pro) user, I think I would be the target consumer for a device of this niche, if it didn't have the inherent compromises that it does.
For me, it's much more about the weight savings than the thinness. I do recognize that I, personally, need a very long battery life, which is something that my 16 Pro unfortunately doesn't provide me with anymore, and that I use a telephoto lens a whole lot, but really, the biggest issue for me with this emerging segment is that the phones are all Plus-sized, instead of also being offered in a size closer to 6.0 inches. (To be completely honest, I found 6.1 inches to be much better than the current 6.3 inches, if only because there were less accidental taps on the screen.)
I would go further and sacrifice image quality for a thinner single lens.
they are just scared that rather than people saying its good enough, it will be its not as good as the other brands.
It's their not advertising the thinness at the thickest point (camera), then it's just dishonest. You don't measure pants by the size of your ankles.
The 13” iPad Pro is thinner than the iPhone Air, also uses aluminum, and isn’t prone to bending. We’ll see.
Without the bump, the camera would look even more ridiculous. The total camera height looks to be as thick, or even slightly thicker, than the main body:
i know i am the only one… wishing a new iphone with the size of an iphone 11pro or 13 mini. make it 2-3mm thicker to hide the opticals without bumps and have a good battery performance and call it „iphone brick“
I and a lot of other people are around chargers literally 24/7. I am no further than 5 feet from a charger, 24/7. Not to mention this is all a rumor and apple will likely shock us with a new battery type or some other technology. Apple has well poisoned before spreading outregous rumors about problems in the next model only for it to be complete nonsense. (The price of the Ultra was a good example) or rumors of the price rising for the mini/air only for it to be lower.
I don't want a small screen, I want a thin and light phone with a big screen. A lot of people hate small screens but don't want to carry a rock in their pocket (which is what the current iPhone is)
This is a mockup from a fan/random person and not the official design...
I am, I have zero interest in a phone with a small screen (and why I never I owned an iPhone until the 6+ came out).
Why on earth would you use a case on a beautiful phone or thin phone. The point of it is to be thin. I would never.
Again this isnt the official design it a mockup from fans/whatever based on leaked specs / info.
The camera bumps have been glossy for a while now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s accurate. I already don’t like how the existing bumps are glossy, but stretching them over the whole width will it make even more glaring.
This is probably the phone I'm going to get but I must say it's hilarious how they talked about corner radiuses and concentricity for 5 hours at WWDC only to come up with a camera bump that isn't concentric with the phone body. It kind of annoys me how it feels out of place.
Nothing elegant about that design; it's asymmetric, and unbalanced.