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Re: iPhone Air

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Post by kulahan »

jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.

Lighter == better, thinner == cooler. Phones are essentially identical these days anyways, and choosing one over another is based on ever-minimizing differences. Now that you can't even install third-party apps easily on Android, this is more true than ever.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by urbandw311er »

supernikio2 wrote: post #351

The Apple foldable is coming. There's no way they invested so much R&D for a thinner phone if they aren't looking to get into that market.

This. Absolutely this. Presumably the foldable flips back up and extends to just beneath the camera bump, hence most of the phone is effectively double the thinnest part of the iPhone air.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by epolanski »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #261
jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.

iPhone status symbol without having to haul around a huge bulky phone. Most users probably use/need 10% of what a max pro iPhone offers, but they want 100% of the max pro status. Now they can keep the status without needing to carry a chonker.

I think you're making up a non existent issue.

On the other hand, the cameras on plateaus are real issues because they don't lay normally and the cameras are very easy to scratch.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by minimaxir »

So there's one feature the Air is missing according to a deep dive of the Compare sheet (https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/): The Air does not support mmWave cellular connectivity, while the other models (and previous models going back awhile) do support it.

That is...weird? Why would the Air's design prevent that?

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

ksec wrote: post #168

We 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.

They'll just use the improved battery density to make it wafer thin (with a big camera bump).

Which will mean they remove all buttons and connectors making it annoying as hell.

But it'll be cool.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by dmix »

minimaxir wrote: post #397

So there's one feature the Air is missing according to a deep dive of the Compare sheet ( https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ ): The Air does not support mmWave cellular connectivity, while the other models (and previous models going back awhile) do support it. That is...weird? Why would the Air's design prevent that?

What does that mean in practice?
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