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iPhone 17 Air Reportedly 9.5mm Thick At Camera Bump End
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I suspect that if they can have wireless charging at all (enough space for the coil), MagSafe shouldn’t be a problem.
I may be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that Apple will kill the standard iPhone+ model for the Air. It really wouldn’t make sense to have to large iPhones that aren’t Pro versions.
Not for space reasons, I think.
Marketing these phones at 5.5mm thick is deceitful. Like claiming a car is 3 feet tall because that's how tall the hood is.
I’m starting to believe the rumor that the 17 Air will be without MagSafe like the 16e.
The 17 Air looks to be razor 🪒 thin and I don’t think they will be able to fit MagSafe in there.
Also I have not heard any of the Leakers like Kuo or Majin Bu or Ice Universe say the 17 Air will have MagSafe.
Apple clearly wanted to separate the Lineup. If you want that Lovely MagSafe then pay $200 more for the base/standard model.
Personally I think it’s more likely for it not having wireless charging at all than having Qi without MagSafe. (But both are still less likely to me than it having MagSafe.) The MagSafe magnets only take up a fraction of a millimeter in thickness:
And the Air is a Plus-sized model which has more available space for the battery in length and width.
When it comes to any optical imaging device ... from telescopes to cell phone cameras ... size matters. The single most important parameter is the lens diameter, as diffraction tells us that larger diameter optics has higher angular resolution, and also larger diameter optics collects more light (think telescopes, it's the same for cameras). Given the practical challenges in making the 6/7 element lenses in cell phone cameras, it's inevitable that the requirement for as large a diameter as possible results in camera thicknesses of 8-10mm. If the camera is too small, the physical image quality will decrease, and no phone company wants their next cameras to be worse than those of their older models. Of course, machine learning can "enhance" images by using statistical inference, but what it adds is not real ... the technical word is "hallucination".
Yeah hopefully Kuo or Majin Bu gets some leaks as the 17 Air is only 5 months away and they already revealed the CAD images so we already know the exact external dimensions just not the internal tech specs.
I remember thinking in the iPhone 4/5 days that weight would never be an issue with phones, they could continue adding features indefinitely. I didn’t foresee the popularity of phablets. How quickly I was proved wrong. All current iPhones are huge weighted bricks now.
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Recently I moved from an iPhone 14 pro to an iPhone 13 Mini, loving it. Realized that a big part of my frustration with iphone 14 pro is the weight and the distribution of the weight impacting one handed use. Honestly, if the iPhone 17 hits that ~170 grams mark or lower, and has 120 hz screen, I may end up grabbing. Weight is just such a key component for me.
That would make sense, but my worry is they don’t do that and bump up the price of the Air over the Plus and then increase the Pro Max price to compensate.
But if the Air starts at 900 that’s still a lot.
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I can't believe how many people let this slide. There is ZERO, ZILCH, NADA functionality gained with the "island" vs the "notch." You literally lose more screen real estate. Its annoying.