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Re: iPhone Air

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Post by sfblah »

What I would like is an iphone for like $200 with a stable set of features that I don't have to buy off the used market. I don't care if it's 2 generations behind, because these new phones don't offer anything I care about.

As far as I can tell from the announcement, they're focusing on content creators. Since I don't stream and am not an Instagrammer, it's irrelevant to me. Selling me one of these cameras is just a waste. I don't even know how to make the phone use the second (or third) camera.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by behnamoh »

canucker2016 wrote: post #169
behnamoh wrote: post #35

Customers: 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.

> They did increase the RAM for the iPhone17 by 50% (8GB -> 12GB)

good. they just caught on with Android in 2020.

Re: iPhone Air

#173

Post by 65 »

The camera hump removes all the "feeling" of having a super thin phone. Also, my phone not being thin enough was never a problem I had. Laptops being thin? Yes that makes sense. But this is barely lighter than the other iPhones. It's all aesthetic.

Re: iPhone Air

#174

Post by piskov »

superb-owl wrote: post #161

All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!

People get old. Old people cannot see small text. Big text requires bigger screen to fit.

One could argue that a lot of 50-ish people have pro max with iphone 5-ish screen estate.

Small screens ain’t gonna happen

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#176

Post by general1465 »

I have Samsung S25 Edge which is essentially same thickness (5.8mm) the biggest difference is weight, phone feels really light compared to my old phone.

The most annoying thing on the phone is wobbling when it is on flat surface thanks to lenses sticking out.

Battery life is alright. I can get 2-3 days of life from it with light use. If I am using it a little bit more, then it is barely one day of battery life.

And compared to iPhone Air it has real SIM slot.

Re: iPhone Air

#177

Post by sercand »

aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

Where did you see the matmul acceleration support? I couldn't find this detail online.

Re: iPhone Air

#178

Post by bsimpson »

apriljo wrote: post #127

I'd be paranoid all the time about breaking it by accidentally sitting on it. Thinner just means it won't have as much strength to resist being bent into an ass-shaped curve, right?

iPhone Cup is coming out next year, pre-curved.

Re: iPhone Air

#179

Post by aurareturn »

sercand wrote: post #177
aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

Where did you see the matmul acceleration support? I couldn't find this detail online.

Apple calls it "Neural Accelerators". It's all over their A19 marketing.

Re: iPhone Air

#180

Post by prmoustache »

goalieca wrote: post #13
beoberha wrote: post #6

Just 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.

But 165gr is not really that light.
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