I’m soooo ready to switch my concept of what a premium metal is from titanium to aluminum!!!
Aluminum iPhone dropped equals massive dent and broken glass. Titanium iPhone dropped equals not a scratch. My experience, you’re may vary.Your reference to the characteristics of pure aluminum is irrelevant, since pure aluminum is not used in iPhone frames.
Aluminum -> Steel -> Titanium -> Aluminum
Leather -> FineWoven -> Leather
Drop an aluminum clad iPhone and a titanium one side by side repeatedly and look at them after trying to say with a straight face there is no difference.I don’t really believe this report, but even if I did, it doesn’t change anything anyway.
The only part of the iPhone Pro currently that is actually titanium is a tiny thin strip along the outside of the phones that’s bonded to… A much bigger strip of aluminum.
So it basically already is aluminum, in all the ways that actually matter.
No, it can’t and doesn’t. Nothing that’s made to withstand daily drops and such is made of aluminum.If that makes iPhone 17 Pro lighter then I don't mind. To be honest I didn't care about stainless steel either. Aluminium is totally fine and can look as good as SS or titanium.
It’s nowhere near as strong or durable.It's not inferior, it's lighter than both titanium and and steel...
Typical lack-of-engineering perspective in these articles. You're 100% right. Strength to weight ratio is a big concern here and as you go thinner and smaller (frame), you lose mechanical strength. Using the lightest yet strongest alloy is why Titanium was used in the past.Sorry MR posted the verbiage "It is unclear why the iPhone 17 Air would have a titanium frame, as aluminum is lighter than titanium," because it feeds into the engineering errors many readers are already prone to jump to. Neither pure aluminum nor pure titanium are used in frames: only alloys are used. MR driving thinking to the pure metals is deceivingly wrong.
Titanium alloy is used in frames because it can be stronger and lighter than an equivalent aluminum alloy used in similar frames might be. The weights of the pure raw metals are not what are relevant.
Your logic seems correct to meThe extra $ for titanium can no longer be justified.
Not much room to bash those phones. The AI on them is better, and so are the cameras and the screens.So the Samsung Galaxy S26 won't have titanium this means either.