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'iPhone 17 Air' Rumored to Surpass iPhone 6 as Thinnest iPhone Ever

I’ve never really been a skinny phone person but I always had a soft spot for my old Samsung X820. That was apparently 6.9mm, but I swear it was thinner in my memory.

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I guess I'm going to go against the tide here and say that I'm excited for this phone if it actually happens. That is, if the thinness results in a much improved weight reduction. I hate how much my iPhone 16 Pro weighs and I don't want to downgrade to a base 16 because of no pro motion or always on display. If I get that in a lighter phone with a big screen, I'll be a happy camper. As it is now, my 16 Pro sits on a charger most of the day. If I have to travel or I know I need to use it quite a bit more than normal I put it in low power mode. Why such hatred for this idea...if you don't like the battery life get a 17 Pro or Pro Max.
 
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It needs to be lighter, not thinner. I miss smaller iPhones, cuz there were so much lighter.
 
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BelgianChoklit said:
People in general, even the ones asking for more battery life and saying the don't care about thickness, have no idea how big the effect the thinness of a device has when they see it. It attracts you so much to the product you have no idea, some people don't realize is, it's often an unconscious attraction. The best designers know this and so does Apple. It has an incredible wow-effect and the first thing you see in a store is the physicality of the product, not its battery life, RAM and all of that other stuff.
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Remove the entire battery then... subtract it with "courage" like the 3.5mm port (aren't batteries a more "antiquated" technology than 3.5mm port... so defenders can help rationalize the subtraction to everyone else with the same lines... as they did with 3.5mm, and included buds, etc.?)... and then sell cases with battery as an add-on. That would yield a super-thin "phone" and the added revenue & profit of "choose your own battery case."

Subtract the camera out to that case too to go even "thinner" (AKA "we've completely eliminated the battery bump from this new phone" (because we shifted it to the lucrative add-on)).

Subtract buttons & USB-C port to case to go even "thinner" still.

Subtract speakers to the add-on case too.

Then charge just as much (aka "same great price")- if not more- for "thinnest smart phone ever made" PLUS a lot more for a case to sell us the rest of the stuff that used to be included inside iPhone.

I'm joking of course... but I could easily see AAPL eventually doing something like this. :eek:

Ultimately, we are probably buying empty boxes and then adding on EVERYTHING that used to be included INSIDE the one box. đź’°đź’°đź’°

The next year that spin "saving the earth" by doing away with that box so we are paying iPhone prices for nothing at all... then paying more to assemble the new phone from add-on sales. ;)

And the perpetual defenders will be there through every subtraction step telling us why it is better this way. :rolleyes:
 
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iZac said:
I’ve never really been a skinny phone person but I always had a soft spot for my old Samsung X820. That was apparently 6.9mm, but I swear it was thinner in my memory.

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That's because it probably was extremely light.
And that's what I'm hoping for future iPhones: a focus on lightness. Displays don't need to be this huge...
 
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bbates123 said:
I guess I'm going to go against the tide here and say that I'm excited for this phone if it actually happens. That is, if the thinness results in a much improved weight reduction. I hate how much my iPhone 16 Pro weighs and I don't want to downgrade to a base 16 because of no pro motion or always on display. If I get that in a lighter phone with a big screen, I'll be a happy camper. As it is now, my 16 Pro sits on a charger most of the day. If I have to travel or I know I need to use it quite a bit more than normal I put it in low power mode. Why such hatred for this idea...if you don't like the battery life get a 17 Pro or Pro Max.
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Agree, it's all about the weight at this point.
 
klasma said:
Don’t forget that the SE1 was only 113 grams. That was peak iPhone in terms of weightlessness.
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I switched precisely from that iPhone to iPhone 15.
The latter is huge, bulky and extremely heavy in comparison.
I truly wish Apple resuscitated iPhone Mini form factor, now that processors are much more energy saving.
 
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bendgate 2.0 coming. All that, just for it to be placed in a case. Not sure the infatuation with thin when people prefer more battery life. Not to mention it will still have that ginormous ass camera cutout. Going back to the moto droid X days. Thin at the bottom, thick at the top.
 
Cloudyskies22 said:
Can you please explain your logic with regard to the case?
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With a case on, the phone will be thicker in hand, rendering the 6mm thickness obsolete.

Without a case, the phone appears to be more susceptible to breaking due to its extreme thinness.
 
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Sounds very exciting. I'm all in for a thinner and lighter phone.

I also think they're going back to only having three phones in their lineup, like they did back in 2018-2019, because absolutely no-one is buying iPhone Plus models. So iPhone Air is going to be the usual model; and then there is Pro and Pro Max.

Exactly like MacBook lineup, but without bigger Air.
 
Meanwhile the battery life in my iPhone 16 pro is absolutely trash! It’s so bad that I am shopping for an android phone
 
Markgnyc2 said:
I will keep buying the Pro Max as I love the battery life and screen, however I suspect there will be a big market for this phone.
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A big market for a thinner iPhone with fewer features than a Pro, but with a larger price tag? This model confuses me. Maybe we’ll get more tidbits that will give us a clearer picture.
 
dampfnudel said:
A big market for a thinner iPhone with fewer features than a Pro, but with a larger price tag? This model confuses me. Maybe we’ll get more tidbits that will give us a clearer picture.
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There is a major change to the design coming, on par with the iPhone X in 2017 or the 6 in 2014. That is the only way this new model makes any sense alongside the current models.
 
MartyvH said:
There is a major change to the design coming, on par with the iPhone X in 2017 or the 6 in 2014. That is the only way this new model makes any sense alongside the current models.
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That’s what I was thinking. Maybe a smaller sized iPhone using the new design will be released in 2026?
 
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