iPhone 17 Air to be even thinner than previously rumored

26 November 2024
It's just mind-bending.

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  • 26 Nov 2024

I really have doubts about the durability of such a thin phone
Every time companies have introduced something so thin, it usually has faced issues with build

Nextbit Robin, iPhone 6, Xiaomi mi5 etc all thin phones, and they all failed in durability (either bent easily, or broke in half under slightest pressure)

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    • Anonymous
    • QrV
    • 26 Nov 2024

    Centered camera?

      This should probably just make it the "budget" model of the lineup... Right?

        S I R E, 26 Nov 2024I don't get the point of thinner phones and tablets if... moreI guess becasue they assume you’ll use a case anyways

          > This will however lack mmWave support and will have slower overall data speeds compared to the Qualcomm chips.

          Can't wait until an Apple fanboy said "mmWave band are faster data speeds are useless!!! We use WiFi anyways."

            Baggin, 26 Nov 2024In fact, the battery problem could be solved if they wanted... moreI can't argue against manufacturers using silicon batteries because it is a solution consumers are benefiting from now, but silicon carbon is a stop-gap solution with limits. That's why you don't see them in wearables where they could really make a difference. Solid state batteries will be a solution for the next 20+ years. Apple can wait out a year or two until SSBs go commercial. Capacity is only one part of the equation. Their smaller Li-on batteries still compete with silicon batteries that are 30% larger.

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              • Anonymous
              • J%7
              • 26 Nov 2024

              pointless product once again. dead on arrival. just drop the failed fourth model (mini/plus/air) and make a decent SE for once.

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                • Anonymous
                • U@g
                • 26 Nov 2024

                Foldable like iphone 6?

                  Should not cost more than 700$ for a phone with a single speaker and a tiny battery.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • rKh
                    • 26 Nov 2024

                    If it is needed to make too many compromises to make the device slim, it doesn't worth the effort.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • sS@
                      • 26 Nov 2024

                      I'm interested in the bend test. Will it bend like the 6.9mm iPhone 6?

                        In fact, the battery problem could be solved if they wanted to develop silicon-carbon batteries as chinese companies do. With this technology, they can pack enser electrical power in smaller batteries than in lithium-polymer batteries. And with this technology, it could be that they attach 4000mAh battery to this iphone

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 7jZ
                          • 26 Nov 2024

                          At that thinness, it'll be worse bending than the iPhone 6, or really really fragile, or something like that. Often it happens, thinness arrives at the cost of durability because they try to create it out of lightweight materials, plastic, thin glass etc

                          Example, Nextbit Robin, a phone that was pretty looking and also thin but it was terribly fragile and broke in half with slight pressure
                          Xiaomi mi5 too, thin and lightweight, but fragile. It broke in 2.

                          With smartphones being already very fragile to begin with, I doubt how it'll end up being, with that level of thin body

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                            • Anonymous
                            • dSV
                            • 26 Nov 2024

                            A thinner phone with less battery? Can't tell if apple wants to regress into the past or progress to the future.

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                              • 4Pf
                              • 26 Nov 2024

                              Artem S. Tashkinov, 26 Nov 2024My mind won't be bent for sure. So far I've ow... moreInterestingly, that's how quite a few Apple owners are. Only owned Apple and have no need to leave that ecosystem

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                                • Anonymous
                                • PxV
                                • 26 Nov 2024

                                and to use your phone through the day, you need to plug to power bank coz the phone only have 1000mha XD

                                  I don't get the point of thinner phones and tablets if they're gonna have protrusions for camera anyway. Use the thickness for better thermals, battery, more I/O ports or just more reinforcements to improve durability.

                                    My mind won't be bent for sure.

                                    So far I've owned 0 (zero) Apple devices and I don't intend to change my preferences.

                                      the battery life is going to be ridiculous... what is the need for a such thin phone??

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