iPhone 17 Air's shocking thinness revealed
- ?
- Anonymous
- ucv
- 12 Jan 2025
DBS, 12 Jan 2025The "Air" is NOT going to perform any better. Th... moreNot sure where you pulled your figures out from, but the mini was one of the worst performing iphones of the year. Except for a few dinosaurs (there's a 100% correlation with old people and small phones), no one really wants a small phone.
- M
- Minu
- ter
- 12 Jan 2025
IpsDisplay, 12 Jan 2025Gsmarena has pages of history at it's disposal Why... moreThere's a very high chance that they might even use a dated Li-Ion battery with a sub-2000mAh battery here.
- Azu10157
- 8gw
- 12 Jan 2025
DBS, 12 Jan 2025The "Air" is NOT going to perform any better. Th... moreAlso the Air is compromising a lot just to achieve this pointlessly thin profile. Imagine if the battery was smaller than the SE (3rd Gen).
- D
- DBS
- nqK
- 12 Jan 2025
The "Air" is NOT going to perform any better.
There's a reason the Plus is a flop and that is PEOPLE WANT SMALLER PHONES.
Not only have all Plus models performed much worse than the Mini, the Mini numbers had the even smaller SE cannibalising the sales.
Apple's reading of the market was dumb when they discontinued the Mini. That's the reality. The 12 Mini alone outsold the entire S21 line-up combined. That alone should give you a hint.
Making an iPhone "Air" with a giant screen will face the same issues the Plus has: people who want a giant iPhone already have the Max. And since neither the Air nor the Plus were cheap, for those prices people rather fork out the money for the top tier version of a kitchen tray.
If Apple wasn't dumb, they'd be bringing back the Mini instead. And NOT releasing an even smaller SE alongside it.
- p
- pl2rts
- Sk2
- 12 Jan 2025
Why can't they come out with a phone that have no camera island and it be flat surface in the rear ? Like going more slim but cameras still stick out of the frame.
How is it even practical to have it more slim ? So the phone gets more fragile ?
Also why can't they have the phone without camera island as the full rear side be flat ? They cant say they have no space when they do as they can make the phone slimmer.
Making the phone more slim that makes it less durable means more chance to get money from people on repairs. That is the reason they wont say and think a some different reason.
Just like removing 3.5mm jack and SD card reason was that they dont have space. Even tough phones have gone a lot bigger from the time the phones had these features. Like phones 10 years ago were a lot smaller and even cameras didnt stick out of the rear.. Never mind that all the tech like chips and everything on motherboard were a lot larger back then.
- ?
- Anonymous
- CbI
- 12 Jan 2025
AnonD-1187725, 11 Jan 2025This comment doesn't make sense. Your "smartphone... moreAndroid market is a thing. Just because you are a scared little pup does not mean billions are not using banking apps. Isheep thinks the earth is flat.
- E
- Eduard33
- ndL
- 12 Jan 2025
Sammy0, 12 Jan 2025Who's asking for this? My current phone is 7.4" t... moreDamn that's a thick phone you've got
- o
- omzig
- CbJ
- 12 Jan 2025
it scratches at level 6, and breaks in half at level 7
- D
- DC-77
- fxQ
- 12 Jan 2025
My five-year old Samsung Tab S5e was already 5.5mm thick. Nothing to shout about.
- ?
- Anonymous
- wrc
- 12 Jan 2025
[deleted post]I don't understand what in the cellular database are you talking about. It's still up, touch some grass.
- S
- Sammy0
- q{r
- 12 Jan 2025
Who's asking for this? My current phone is 7.4" thin and it's already a hassle to pick up off a desk (I don't use cases), so 5.5" would be ridiculously finicky to handle for no redeeming benefit whatsoever, except for Apple to brag about 'inventing' the thinnest phone!
- ?
- Anonymous
- 6cb
- 12 Jan 2025
DarlingYext, 11 Jan 2025"..the iPhone 17 Air, at its thinnest point, will be j... moreThe sales number of chinese flagship is incredibly small.
- I
- IpsDisplay
- 4ra
- 12 Jan 2025
S I R E, 12 Jan 2025Chill dude, you miss the obvious premise here, this is just... morePerfectly said
- I
- IpsDisplay
- 4ra
- 12 Jan 2025
Gsmarena has pages of history at it's disposal
Why is the writer of this article impressed by this thinness that still cannot match 2014 oppo/Vivo technology?? (In terms of dimensions)
And I'm going to bet 1million dollars apple won't be using the updated si/c battery chemistry technology to cram maybe a 4000-5000mah battery in the 5mm body
- C
- ChiefDG
- Iby
- 12 Jan 2025
potato4k, 12 Jan 2025Wait wait wait, it's not 5.5mm thin. It's 5.5mm a... moreWell, not necessarily. Yes, it could be a tapered design, but they are most likely referring to the camera bump being like, two-thirds of the thickness of the phone. It would be highly unlikely for Apple to move back to the tapered design after flattening literally every other device they make.
- P
- Pedzio
- Mk4
- 12 Jan 2025
As someone who is into thin and light phones, I'm actually excited for this. Hope it won't be too big though.
But i hope android market follows too and thin light small phones come back and with S/C battery tech, they can have respectable battery life and a camera bump with 2 respectable sensors for main and ultrawide.
An upper midrange or near flagship SoC with focus on efficiency and thermals would be the perfect choice. It doesn't need to be the among the most powerful.
Now that's a phone i would buy
- D
- DarlingYester
- xin
- 12 Jan 2025
No money = no buy 🤧