Mini is about the footprint...they could have made it 15% thicker while keeping the footprint the same to increase the battery. Thickness is not an issue, having something the size of poptart in your pocket. I carry my airpods in my pocket 24/7 and it's far thicker then anyphone.
I went with the Air this time and now when I even hold a regular iPhone 17 Pro, it feels like a brick. It’s amazing the Air has a lot of what people like about the mini with much better battery life. Easy to hold but has a slightly bigger display. Great iPhones this year. Just don’t like the switch to aluminum. They can say it’s all due to thermals but the vapor chamber should do that. Or they could have used titanium on the outer edge to ensure more impact resistance than the aluminum has. The Air feels so much stronger than the Pros - a nice change.
It would be nice if instead of a what five year design cycle for the iPhones they come out with something different every few years. I mean do a mini once every few years. Do an Air once every few years. Do a fold once every few years. Then update the Pro and Ultra every year. Remove the stupid pro max moniker also. It’s either a pro or an ultra in my book.Apple wants a hit every year but the reality is that’s not how consumers buy. Also, I think Apple has burned a lot of goodwill with promises they cannot deliver on. No reason they couldn’t switch it up as some devices won’t sell as many but would keep customers happy in the ecosystem.
Around 10’s of millions if you add up the fans of both products?
It actually is not, it's lighter but it's most certainly not hand-holdable especially if your reasoning for going with the mini in the first place is due to having smaller hand or just liking it being smaller overall. The Air is thinner, but it's overall length is longer which means when you hold the phone especially if you have smaller hand you need to cup your hand around the center of the back of the phone. With with the screen being bigger and you having smaller hands, when you have to do the "swipe up" motion 30 times a day you are going to be over extending your thumb over and over just to reach the bottom of the screen. My thumb, or the join between my thumb and my hand was hurting after just one day of use.
My 13 mini has FaceID….
I don't have a horse in this race as I absolutely prefer the bigger real-estate of the larger phones.
Throw the Plus on that list, then. None of the non-Pro phones sell well. A Pro mini would sell well, but they’ve never made one.I don't have a horse in this race as I absolutely prefer the bigger real-estate of the larger phones.
That said, every time Apple tries to do a smaller form factor phone, they just don't sell. Heck, even the Air seems to not be doing that well. If they sold, they'd make them... they just don't.
That's disingenuous. The mini has around 72% of the width x height area of the Air, so given the improvements in battery tech and wireless chips, an Air mini should be able to get around the same battery life as the 13 mini (which is around 60% of the Air, based on the video playback numbers, despite having 77% of its battery capacity).
I agree, mostly because I don’t like the Air’s design and camera bar. I’d actually prefer an iPhone 5-shaped mini with flush back, which with today’s tech should have decent-enough battery life.
