If Apple can put in a larger capacity battery into the iPhone Air (maybe 3,600 mAh at bare minimum), it would eliminate the largest (perceived or not!) barrier to buying the phone. After all, the iPhone Air has a 6.5" LTPO VRR display, and larger displays are in demand for people with increasingly poor eyesight like the aging late Baby Boomer generation and most of Generation X.
The battery on the Air is really good to begin with, don't need the magsafe battery. It gets the same battery life (thanks to the Apple modem) as my 16 Pro and people haven't been saying that has bad battery life. Secondly, many people don't buy the Pro/ProMax due to how heavy they are. Not liking a heavy thick phone doesn't make you unintelligent lmao.
Why bring in all of the old out-moded phone models that legitimately had too-small batteries, especially ones that are five years old already? Quit living in the past.
So I should accept more weight because “the future”? That doesn’t make any sense.
I use a 13 mini and intend to continue doing that for the foreseeable future. At 141 grams, I still don’t find it very lightweight. The SE1 at 113 grams was a different story.
IMO weight is kinda moot when you're talking about mobile phones as they're light objects.
I do think many would miss the ultra wide. Linus did mock the single speaker while praising the rest. Battery life is good for an 11 Pro Max which is what I get the feeling it it trying to summon
It’s not difficult to work out
It makes a difference in lighter clothing, and it also just feels nicer IMO. I can understand people coming from a Pro Max appreciating the lower weight of the Air, even if for me it would be a regression.
Totally agree. The Air is trying to compete with the Pro and regular iPhone for essentially the same price, but major features are missing on the Air. If it were $599 it would probably sell very well. Every single person who's been using the regular iPhone or Pro for the past 10 years (10 generations) is going to "upgrade" to their same model line.
I'm going to disagree with you there. I notice the lightness of the air all the time. my 14 pro always felt too heavy to me. The battery on this has been way better than people were worried about too. only having 1 speaker hasnt proven a problem either, its plenty loud.
Then you should direct your ire towards the general trend of greater heft in iPhones. Personally I drew the line at the 16 Pro (34 g heavier than the Air, 12 g over the 15 Pro). I hoped Apple might try for something lighter. That the public reaction to both the 16e and the Air hasn't been terribly positive isn't really helping any future mythical mini iPhone's case. Why would Apple build something for a small niche audience when every time they've done it before the attempt flamed out? You might be holding on to the 13 mini for a lot longer than you like. The mini cult - as a 12 mini owner I am one of you - all keep grafting different ideals and standards with each new type of technology, either batteries, screens, or materials. Apple tries to build something that it thinks can appeal to a broad audience, but the fact is that it isn't broad at all. So it fails and you're left unsatisfied. Not me, I got off that train a couple stops ago. If Apple can't make "fetch" happen, no amount of crying about it will.
Im loving my Air as well after 16PM. I was using a XS Max since the year it was released, went though a couple of different ones over the years. Finally upgraded to 16PM last year after it was announced the XS Max would not get the next iOS upgrade. The new Air is the XS Max replacement I always wanted. Modern phones gotten too thick and square, and more powerful than I need. A phone is more than the sum of its specs, design matters. I think the Air is a phone Steve and Jony would be proud of!
You are correct, I should edit and remove “luxury “ from my post.
