Kuo: High Demand for iPhone 17 Models, But Questions Remain About iPhone Air

[FriendlyMackle]

Anyone getting anything other than the base model 17 has got too much money to waste. You’ve everything you want in the base model - personal opinion.

It has one less camera, and no vapor chamber, and less RAM (right?). Not to mention the ultra-slow USB port with 2003 technology (exaggerate)

 

[FriendlyMackle]

You don't need a review to tell if you want iPhone Air. The main selling point is light weight and thin while having a lot of compromise. You don't even need to see any review because those compromise wouldn't justify the reduction of weight for a lot of people. Short battery life + missing wide angle lens is already a show stopper for me no matter how light weight or how thin the phone is.

We presume it will have a short battery life — we don’t have real-world usage tests yet. 27 hours stated ‘video play’ time is decent (if a not useful-to-me reference), but what will be the REAL use time for web browsing, emails, substack, and audio/music?
The 27-hour claim is about what the iphone 16 Pro model got if I remember correctly.
It’s only in comparison to the 17 Pro models that the Air looks particularly ‘bad.’
Then there’s the question of the durability of the battery itself (if the Si content really does make it different to standard batteries).

I like the look, the sleekness of it—but I won’t give up a camera, more RAM, more processing power, and much much more battery life for a lighter, thinner phone. But I can understand why some people would make that tradeoff.