Typical Apple...let's make a thin phone and next year unveil foldable with slightly larger versions hinged together. The Apple progression.
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iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed in New Video
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He doesn't need to worry,..Apple has gimped the phone so much, that it may in fact run with a single watch battery 🤦♂️
You won't have to worry, it's missing that many features,..it will run long & perfectly fine Lol
50 watt magsafe would help with battery issues. (E.g. to snap on a 50 watt magsafe battery pack) But it would be nice if they would add 2 pogo pins for direct energy transfer instead of only relying on induction. Induction wastes too much energy. Adding 2 pogo pins into the magsafe spec could help solve the issue of lost / slow energy / heat, while still giving users a direct energy "snap on battery pack" without wires, while still being backwards compatible with qi2.
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I would rather have extra battery than thin.
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.
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.
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An iPhone is only as “thin” as its thickest point on the camera bump.
Steve Jobs would’ve never allowed something as ugly and as user-unfriendly as a camera bump. Jobs kept Jony Ive’s worst tendencies in check while bringing out his best tendencies. Tim Cook is clueless and mediocre, so he allowed all sorts of ugly and user-unfriendly design choices like the camera bump and flat design. Clueless Cook is not a product person, and Jobs even told that to his biographer.
Steve Jobs would’ve never allowed something as ugly and as user-unfriendly as a camera bump. Jobs kept Jony Ive’s worst tendencies in check while bringing out his best tendencies. Tim Cook is clueless and mediocre, so he allowed all sorts of ugly and user-unfriendly design choices like the camera bump and flat design. Clueless Cook is not a product person, and Jobs even told that to his biographer.
It will be missing a fisheye camera that most people never use because it takes awful distorted photos. Not sure how that will save battery life but ok…
does anyone actually care? The current iphone is already thin enough. In fact id rather they add a bit of thickness and increase the battery capacity.
Its lighter weight will be its most appreciated characteristic.
Not if it’s stainless or titanium. That’s reason #1 why no iPhone should ever be made of aluminum again.
Thanks for sharing that. When exactly were you able test out the new thin phone?
Didn’t take long for the tiny hands mafia to make an appearance.
I predict iPhone Air will be the greatest failure of all time.
You cannot escape physics. Bendgate and bad battery life here we come.
You cannot escape physics. Bendgate and bad battery life here we come.
are there really people who put there iPhone in their back pocket? That’s kinda dumb. I don’t where skinny jeans so I’m good there. If the battery is good enough, I’d like to try a 17air. I have no need for 3 cameras on my iPhone, so that won’t matter at all to me.
The point is it can be taken out, and pushed in, of the pocket of the shirts I like to wear far easier than current iPhones.
For me that's huge regularly making a lot photos using my iPhone in urban environments.
Ya, I loved the mini. If my eye sight was better, I’d still have my mini.
Actually, quite the opposite. those of us that don’t have large hands will have a much better usability experience.
isn't that obvious? Extreme thin iPhone is one step towards foldable iPhone. So when 2 thin iPhone fold into 1 will not become too thick. Look it is almost half the thickness of the bigger one
I simply won’t be content until I can put a massive Otterbox case with an extended battery on it and still manage to lose it into the gap between my driver’s seat and the center console of my car.
I assure you that Apple has spent millions on market research. The opinion of a few Internet wags that think Apple makes their iPhones wrong really does not matter.
