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Re: iPhone Air

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Post by mallets »

computerdork wrote: post #275
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.

It's about the size and even more importantly the weight. I like small, light phones (I currently have the iphone 13 mini). I want something small that I can slip into my pocket and it's not this brick bouncing around as take a walk. Although, I'm not a big phone user though, mainly use it when I'm outside of the house. In the house, I'll just use my laptop.

No mention of the actual weight here but a quick search says 165 grams. Not as light as I expected.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by dontlaugh »

Nition wrote: post #249

It's more the other two dimensions that I want shrunk. Did anyone think their phone was too thick to fit in their pocket?

Exactly. I'm still using my iPhone 13 mini and won't change it for something bigger. I wouldn't mind something a little smaller.

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Post by sombragris »

I don't need a thinner phone. I need a phone that can use a physical SIM card, has a physical keyboard (something like the N900), and a 3.5mm headphone jack... I'll just skip on that overpriced piece of junk.

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Post by minimaxir »

dmix wrote: post #400
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?

The carriers offer a superfast download speed that is based off of mmWave: Verizon for example offers 5G Ultra Wideband: https://www.verizon.com/support/5g-mobile-faqs/

On my current iPhone 13 Pro I can get about 100 Mbps in San Francisco.

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Post by insonifi »

hollowturtle wrote: post #213
insonifi wrote: post #57

I would prefer my phone to be operable by one hand.

It's a UI problem not an hardware one imo. Pretty much when iPhone came out UI research flattened and everything seems so standardized now, I only see gimmick stuff like liquid glass. For example, I don't see why a submit button cannot float near the thumb on the right or left side of the bottom of the device(could predict by checking device orientation)

I cannot totally agree. From my experience, if the phone is wider than ~68mm, I cannot hold it firmly in my hand and operate it. The UI comes after that, for how far I can reach.

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Post by worldsayshi »

dzink wrote: post #208

This has a couple of up sides. 1. Biggest is that Apple can finally tell if people really want a thinner phone (I don’t). Maybe once they find out the answer, they can finally start using the space more productively. 2. They mentioned local LLM in passing, but this is the biggest possible selling point of the executives actually back real work on making them consumer-level easy. Have a LLM marketplace. Let users sub-…

> Apple can finally tell if people really want a thinner phone

They would need to sell two otherwise equivalent new models att the same time where one is thicker for that.

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Post by hiq »

benbayard wrote: post #369
neilv wrote: post #345

Technologically impressive, how thin they got it. Since it costs $1000-$1400, I'm going to need a nice big thick ruggedized case around it.

AppleCare+ is really good IMO if you're interested in caseless. I can get my screen or back replaced same day for as little as $29. On my iPhone 17 I've broken the screen twice and gotten repairs done same day.

I don't know, this still feels like hassle to go there, hand in your phone, plan accordingly as you'll spend some hours without, and go get it back later. If that happens once a year fine, but still, I'd rather just get a case (and save the $10/month AppleCare+ seems to cost).

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Post by mikepurvis »

computerdork wrote: post #275
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.

It's about the size and even more importantly the weight. I like small, light phones (I currently have the iphone 13 mini). I want something small that I can slip into my pocket and it's not this brick bouncing around as take a walk. Although, I'm not a big phone user though, mainly use it when I'm outside of the house. In the house, I'll just use my laptop.

I'm also pretty happy with my iPhone 13 mini and loathing having to upgrade to something much larger.

For reference, the 13 mini has a 5.4" screen, and the new-gen iPhones are 6.3", 6.5", and 6.8". Pixel 10 is 6.3" as well.

iPhone 5 was the most perfect size ever and was about 0.3" shorter than the 13 mini, though it had a much smaller screen due to the bezel: https://www.gsmarena.com/size-compare-3d.php3?idPhone1=5685&...

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