All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!
iPhone Air
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#162AAPL is down 1.3% on the news, while GOOGL is up 2%. Their phone offerings have diverged so dramatically with this last refresh cycle.
Do you think Google stock is up because of this announcement? It's not like they generate most of their revenue from Pixel phones, or Android overall.
Re: iPhone Air
#163Just do not understand the market for this one. The current size of phones is a solved problem. Nobody is asking for these things to be thinner. Most people use cases and are happy to add some thickness for battery life. Besides, the camera "plateau" makes it all futile.
I would love a lighter phone. If I chase after kids at the park, the thing is banging around like a lead weight in my pockets.
As other comments have said, this isn't going to change that experience whatsoever
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#164Thin phone that we're all just going to put a case on and forget what it looks like because everyone's phone just looks like an Otterbox or whatever. Apple is cooked.
Eh the new bumpers and clear cases look interesting (but the white MagSafe pattern is just stupid — should just leave it off). I'll probably get an Air and one of these cases, or a thin third party case.
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#165can we just get an iPhone Fat with 20000 mAh battery and a LCD screen (5% of population is sensitive to OLED PWM)
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#166Anyone know if this has a silicon-carbon battery? The spec sheet just says “lithium ion”, which doesn’t answer the question.
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#167"Impossibly thin" is right in line with Patrick McGee's "Apple in China" who argues that the main reason for Apple's designs is to keep imitators at bay by introducing manufacturing challenges that only they can meet. Indeed impossible at the time of release. One generation after the other. He estimates this gains them about 6 months of headway. Tough world.
(Yes, to be fair, there is more to this new phone than just "impossibly thin".)
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#168We will have Silicon Carbon battery that has 2x energy density of normal lithium battery shipping on Smartphone later this year. Apple is very slow in new battery technology adoption, but one could imagine in a few years time this iPhone Air will have double the battery life.
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#169Customers: we need better battery, no camera bump, better displays, more storage, ... Apple: here's the thinnest phone ever
They did increase the RAM for the iPhone17 by 50% (8GB -> 12GB [sorry, there was no RAM bump, I was looking at the iPhone17 and iPhone17 Pro page and confused the 17Pro RAM for the 17 RAM amount]) and the 128GB storage option is gone, so the 256GB option is the minimum now, for the same price as the initial iPhone16.
Re: iPhone Air
#170It's late but I spent way too long looking at the top image wondering what the weird phone angles were on the left and right until I realised it said AIR
Same! Though it was some liquid glass distortion of the phone or something.
And then I stared at the line about "remarkable all‑day battery life" and wondered what is so remarkable about that. Anyway... "The new iPhone Air MagSafe Battery has a thin and light design that magnetically attaches to the back of iPhone Air to extend battery life during busier days." So you can always turn it into a normal thickness phone with normal battery life it seems.