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Re: iPhone Air

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Post by manacit »

ManBeardPc wrote: post #328

I want an extra thick model instead, let’s call it iPhone Travel (or Ultra?). Just thick enough so the cameras are no longer sticking out. Give me an all-week battery instead of an all-day one. Slim down the power usage and give a power saver mode that actually does make a difference. Let me go on a weekend trip in nature or festival without having to carry extra hardware or having to look for public charging station…

Personally, I really like being able to use lightweight MagSafe batteries instead of having a thicker iPhone. I used to agree with you, but the tech has gotten ridiculously good the last couple of years.

With something like https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HRY02LL/A/anker-maggo-pow..., you get a magsafe battery that doubles the life of an iPhone and can be independently recharged, and is so slim that I can put it in my pocket attached to my iPhone and not notice.

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Post by creer »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #343
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?

I recently doubled the thickness of my iPhone SE by adding an external battery. Fits in my jeans pocket fine along with several other things in the same pocket. If they can get it that thin, why don't they just add more battery and take us back to the time when we could run phones for weeks between charges. [edit] I'll answer my own question. Nobody is going to replace an iPhone because it drops from 21 days battery…

There is an accessory outboard battery for this new iphone.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

scblock wrote: post #99

That is the dumbest side profile I have ever seen. The camera bump and camera together are thicker than the rest of this thing. By its design it now demands a massive case or just won't ever sit even reasonably flat on a table. Ridiculous.

The camera bump is there for the same reason the wireless mouse has the charge port on the bottom: Apple want you to hold it.

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Post by icey »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #216
creer wrote: post #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…

Is anyone buying an iPhone because it's slightly thinner than other phones? I've never heard anyone say the width of the phone was their reason for picking an iPhone, or any phone for that matter.

I will buy one of these because I want a phone that doesn't create such a huge bulge in my pants pocket

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Post by renmillar »

drumhead wrote: post #452

Is this a foldable prototype. Will the iPhone foldable be 2 iphone Airs joined together?

If you flip one upside down and attach it to another one, you end up with a stable phone that has twice the battery life.

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Post by mikestew »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #429

> iPhone Air is easy to use outside with 3000 nits peak outdoor brightness This will be a nice upgrade for bi / motor - cyclists who like to mount their phone / google maps on their handlebars!

Don’t put your iPhone on your motorcycle handlebars if you value the camera: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102175

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Post by kccqzy »

m463 wrote: post #470
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.

I agree with you, you're still going to put it in a fat case to protect the camera. Personally, I think thin is just "omg look at my engineering". blah blah. I found the (expensive!) bullstrap case to be helpful - thin and slippery enough to slide out of a pocket easily, well engineered to protect the camera. But really, I think the iphone 13 mini was the most useful/practical application of apple's engineering. I th…

I've only broken the iPhone camera once in more than a decade of using iPhones. And that's when I was in IKEA and a box of unassembled furniture fell onto it.

If you really want protection, the screen is still more fragile than the camera.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

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.

> Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal?

It’s light and the thinness is just fun. I’m not putting a case on it. And I really don’t understand why a phone needs to sit flat on a table—if anything, the angle is a plus.

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