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iPhone 17 Air is Launching Soon, Here Are All the Rumors
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Put a second camera for spacial video and I’m sold but they went with 1 come onnnnnn, Samsung put 2 on its super thin phone. Apple promotes spacial video and release new products that can’t capture it !!!! Why do you always hold back Apple? I am fine with no always on display but it should do always on for the clock mode when it’s connected to a charger and positioned horizontally at a minimum!
The Galaxy S25 Edge doesn't seem to be selling great as they are already being pretty heavily discounted at some places. I think so many people are so addicted to their phones and use them so often during the day that battery life is the most important attribute. So until manufacturers can get 2 or even 3 days of use out of a phone, the larger phones with bigger batteries are going to win out as they just don't want to give that battery life up. I do believe though that will happen eventually, and lighter/thinner, and yes, even smaller phones will make a comeback.
Leaks are making things boring: Air would be a delightful surprise if we learned about that in the keynote.
Nice, but will it get rid of dynamic island as well as notch? We need full screen experience back for good.
I got one recently and returned it. Big problem it has, is it gets too hot, too quick. Sure its thin and light, that's it. Screen is big, but you'll have to manage it like a small phone, so the big screen is basically pointless. If you need a phone just to be a phone, just get the base model.
I’m sure there’ll be a few people who will go for the Air but I just (personally) feel once you add on a case etc - how much might you be potentially losing in terms of overall specs to weigh down with accessories?
If nothing else the iPhone 17 Air is new and different. Until it's released and reviewed opinions are pure speculation. I will take a wait and see position.
That would look cool without the bump. Wonder if we’ll see phones without bumpy cameras ever again.
Hopefully it will support the full 25 watts of qi2.2.
Also, hopefully we will start to see some thinner (like under 5mm) full fledged 6000mah, 25 watt qi2 power banks that run cool to the touch.
I know they may release a case with a battery. But I feel like part of the point of magsafe is to be able to easily remove the thickness once it's juiced up, instead of just carrying the dead weight around as it would be as a case.
Also, hopefully we will start to see some thinner (like under 5mm) full fledged 6000mah, 25 watt qi2 power banks that run cool to the touch.
I know they may release a case with a battery. But I feel like part of the point of magsafe is to be able to easily remove the thickness once it's juiced up, instead of just carrying the dead weight around as it would be as a case.
Honestly we've had big phones for a while now. For years at this point. How small is your pocket man?
Pixel 9a has no camera bump. I agree it would be nice to have more phones without the bump.
Image credit - https://www.cdw.com/product/google-pixel-9a-2025-128-gb-obsidian-android-smartphone/8320658
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I find it pretty hard to care about this... But then again, it's not aimed at me. It's aimed at people who care about being seen with their phone. And to be honest, that is about 80-90% of the phone-buying population, especially the younger lot.
I think it'll sell like hot cakes. Apple's creating a whole new category here of a cut-down, effectively budget iPhone but without a budget price tag. Clever, clever Apple.
I think it'll sell like hot cakes. Apple's creating a whole new category here of a cut-down, effectively budget iPhone but without a budget price tag. Clever, clever Apple.
It literally hasn't been released yet so hold off with the vitriol. Now, when it is released and it is all that come see me haha
Also they're subconsciously preparing everyone for their fold option and this is likely a move to test the in-use structural integrity of that in-the-works product. Like how thin can we honesty make these things before they break in places our machines missed. So, Beta testers much...?
This.
Who needs a thin device, if it's even bigger than the Pro?
I miss Steve.
Apple is simply dead.
That's a good point. And I think you hit on how the external "Air" battery will work. They will sell them as MagSafe for all phones but specifically aimed at Air users. Somehow they'll be an elegant way to add a little juice to your thin ass phone without having to leave it attached all the time and make them bulky. I really think there's more to this Sep 9 release than people are expecting...
Still looks like an iPhone ripoff from every angle but the back with the "G". To be honest if it didn't have said "G" I'd just assume this was some Chinese knockoff. Anyhoo, yes I realize we're in an age of "all-phones-look-the-same" but...come on! And yes I know Apple is sorta ripping off the vertical pill shaped alignment of Google's camera layout, but at least Apple's product images don't make me go "wait, is that a Pixel?" like ALL their competitors STILL do.
You miss Steve because your idea of what Apple's products are currently evolving into don't align with what you personally want? And you assume a currently alive Steve as CEO of one of the biggest companies in the history of man would be on YOUR side? Anyway, hard to say since he's been dead for 14 years and we are in a wildly different time than we were in 2011. But keep telling yourself that while probably still buying the new iPhones you want to whine about being not exactly the way you want them to be and that old long dead company boss would be outraged LMFAO
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I recall hearing somewhere, maybe on Supersaf Speaks that the Air is widely assumed to be a rejigged flip phone design that couldn’t eliminate the crease. They’d done the engineering on the internals for a thin chassis so adapted it into a slab phone and released it.
Phones have to all look like the iPhone. It’s the model most people picture in their head as the stereotypical device type. Wacky designs that break too many norms are shunned by the public because buyers are self conscious. 3rd parties have a difficult time balancing their own design language without straying too far from the archetype.
Even your folding and flip phones are really just an iPhone-like that opens up or collapses down.
Riddle me this: why are enthusiast users in need of some redesign yet quite happy to buy laptops whose design, barring a thinner chassis, not changed in over two decades?
Why is it ok for one product to settle on a winning formula and never get brought up but when another does it it gets called ‘stale’?
Why is it ok for one product to settle on a winning formula and never get brought up but when another does it it gets called ‘stale’?
Who need this ? At this price … with one camera … Seriously Apple … When will it stop ? I am with my iPhone 13 Pro and want a real improvement other than a better camera and a slightly better battery … The new chips is not at this stage proving useful especially with a dull Apple Intelligence
Genuinely curious if the lighter users who dig the single camera but want a better battery have given the 16e a shot?