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iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed in New Video

Does he still exist?!
I used to watch UnboxTherapy until a couple of years ago. The highly biased and exaggerated content made me unsubscribe.
He certainly was one of the OGs!
#TeamCrispy
 
mudflap said:
I want a thin phone and I think thinner is better. As long as it doesn't have iPhone 6 rounded edges I feel like I'd be able to hold the Air just fine. And do you really think Apple isn't smart enough to figure out the battery? I'm sure it'll last all day.
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Ditto. People conveniently ignore that the pro models have been getting fatter and heavier, they really are bricks now and it’s past time that the pendulum started swinging back the other direction. Of course it’s not perfect, the huge camera bar (for one lens lol) looks terrible and it’ll come with the non-pro soc and less ram but at least it’s a step in the right direction.
 
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I think phones are thin enough, too thin and its going to bend. Also many car wireless chargers use a pad and a bigger camera bump is going to cause more charging issue.
 
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I give it one and done at most. The mini already showed us the value users place on battery life. Plus it's not even going to feel that thin with that bulky camera complex taking up one end of the phone.
 
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I feel like the "air" is mostly something to market with, as well as a test to run the engineering through its paces for future models. While cool I won't personally be compromising any performance or capability specs just for "thinness".
 
MrGimper said:
Anyone GENUINELY interested in thinness anymore? Really feels like Apple are kinda stuck in the last decade.

It’s really thin, and important things like AI on our system can make childish pictures.
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There's one guy in here that wears a suit and is really excited about thin phones.
 
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mudflap said:
I want a thin phone and I think thinner is better. As long as it doesn't have iPhone 6 rounded edges I feel like I'd be able to hold the Air just fine. And do you really think Apple isn't smart enough to figure out the battery? I'm sure it'll last all day.
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How does a thin phone appeal to you?
 
The 17 Pro looks outdated (and hideous) in comparison. I am really loking forward to the sleek Air and its future iterations which might improve on the first generation (battery, camera etc).

I also assume that future Pro models will be slimmed down as well to get in line with the new thin design language that started with the iPad Pro M4 last year.
 
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This iPhone makes perfect sense coming from Apple. The company that continues to push thin high priced devices in pastel colors that are marketed as trendy must have products. A very successful fashion strategy that's made them quite successful.
 
blairh said:
The Air is the first truly exciting iPhone in a long time. I can't wait to get it. Will make the other models look and feel dated.
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I am intrigued by the form factor but need to see what features I'll be giving up since I've been a Pro iPhone customer for years
 
MacRumors said:


Apple plans to release an all-new super thin iPhone this year, debuting it alongside the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. We've seen pictures of dummy models, cases, and renders with the design, but Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy today showed off newer dummy models that give us a better idea of just how thin the "iPhone 17 Air" will be.


The iPhone 17 Air is expected to be around 5.5mm thick (with a thicker camera bar area), making it the thinnest iPhone to date. With the iPhone 17 Pro models rumored to be around 8.725mm thick, there will be a notable difference between the iPhone 17 Air and the rest of the iPhone 17 models.

Hilsenteger was impressed by the thinness of the iPhone 17 Air, speculating on whether it would bend because of the minimal casing. Rumors suggest that Apple will use a titanium and aluminum chassis for the iPhone, with the aim of ensuring it's strong enough not to bend. Back in 2014, Apple dealt with "bendgate" after some users found that the iPhone 6 Plus started bending from being tucked inside a pocket. Hilsenteger's YouTube channel even went viral after he did one of the original iPhone 6 bend test videos.

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Apple also decided to keep the display size to 6.6 inches because of fears that a larger display would make the iPhone 17 Air too susceptible to bending. Originally, Apple wanted to use a 6.9-inch display, which would put sizing on par with the iPhone 17 Pro Max. That Apple tweaked display size during development suggests it took the potential for bending into account while creating the super thin iPhone.

Hilsenteger also questioned what the iPhone 17 Air's battery life will be like because of the thinness of the design, but Apple is eliminating features like extra camera lenses in order to ensure enough room for the battery, as well as using a more efficient Apple-designed C1 modem and optimizing through software. Battery life is expected to be on par with current iPhone models.

More on what's expected from the iPhone 17 Air models can be found in our iPhone 17 Air roundup.

Article Link: iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed in New Video
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The whole camera bar raised area now just makes me think someone glued an ipod nano onto the back of a large iphone....

The air idea does intrigue me more than anything else I've seen so far.
 
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DigitalAR said:
I feel like Apple is painting themselves into a corner.

Their phones are either super thick now or gonna be super thin. And their thin one is going to get really
Really hot during usage.

It feels like they lost sight of what people really need.
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A thin design shouldn’t cause the phone to be hotter (higher temperature) under sustained loads because heat dissipates through it’s surface; same as a thicker phone.
 
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Scoob Redux said:
This is the result of having a corporate spreadsheet guy in charge of Apple - he has no idea what constitutes a "good" product. The Ive-instilled mantra that "thinner is better" lives on, with no evidence that anyone wants a thinner phone or that it enhances usability in any way. On the contrary, a thinner phone is harder to hold, easier to drop, and holds less stored energy (i.e. battery). Thinness is a solution in search of a problem.
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At least when Ive was there, they made sense of what they did for most of their products. Nowadays it's just about riding the wave and hoping for the best for them.
 
ab2c4 said:
Being that thin and with the flat sides and sharp edges I can't see how it will be comfortable to hold.
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It should be similar to the current iPad Pros, probably with slightly more rounded edges like the current iPhones.

By the way, I’m currently holding the 11” iPad Pro in my hands which at 5.3 mm is thinner than the iPhone Air, and it doesn’t feel that crazy thin as the video implies. Thinner than current iPhones for sure, but it merely feels “reasonable”. The iPhone Air is barely a quarter thinner than the iPhone 12 or the iPhone SE 202x.
 
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