so smaller battery (meaning you will need to replace it earlier, which is bad), larger screen than the base model while having a smaller capacity (making battery life even worse…) compromised cameras (no ultrawide and no telephoto, “optical quality” crop in does not count…), compromised speakers (only the amplified earpiece speaker?), possible durability issues (which may be partially remedied with a case, but that defeats the point of a thin phone…), worse thermals (esp. with the “Pro” chip, albeit one less GPU core, also will make battery life extra worse. iOS 26 is sure to make the thermals worse too…), and more expensive.
For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?
To me the only purpose of this is to beta the thin design before a folding phone. Other than that, it’s kinda dumb.
For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?
so you drop it faster, so then you have to buy a thick rubber case. Smart phones are stupid.
I wanted a small phone, not a thin phone. 😭
For every person who likes small phones, there’s a thousand people who’d rather buy a 7" behemoth. I’ll be using my 13 mini for as many years as I can, but we’ve lost the battle :(
At least the Air is probably more comfortable to use than the others
They tried for a few years and it obviously didn’t sell very well. People want large screens.
Personally, as much as I like the idea of it and missing my iPhone 5, I couldn’t bring myself to buy a Mini.
The mini was quite a compromised phone. And I get it, they have to make it look good. They don’t want some thick ass small phone with an apple logo on the back. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I want.
Bendgate 2.0
Zach from JerryarigEverything is gonna snap this like a well tempered Hershey bar.
Who wants this?
people who think owning apple is a status symbol. that’s who.
and it’s the majority of consumers. apple has a very high attachment rate/image for the US consumer. especially among the upper middle class where not having an apple product/iphone is considered a mark of poverty.
This, unfortunately is universally true. It’s pure superficial nonsense, but such is a large % of humanity.
Ultra-Thin
but why
They ran out of ideas when Steve Jobs died of ligma
Who’s Steve Jobs?
Who is ligmar?
Because Samsung did it.
Samsung did it because it leaked Apple was always doing this.
It’s likely a test case for their upcoming foldable. If they make it this thin they can Cana decent idea of some of the failure modes of the foldable that they may not have predicted.
So you can roll it. Probably.
You can actually feel the radiation!
Leave it to Apple to put a small phone battery, to sell another battery for you to stick it outside the case, and kill the inside battery faster by using the most inefficient energy transfer technology. This must check all the money related boxes for their accountants. Bravo.
but next year they will invent the folding phone.
I really wanna see how successful this model will be. I’d never accept thinness as a trade off.
I’m interested. Thinness isn’t as much of a draw as weight to me. I have a 16 Pro now and am kinda tired of how heavy it is. As long as the battery gets me through a 16 hour day that’s all i need.
Also if I need extra battery life, they brought back the magsafe battery which i can keep in a backpack. Best of both worlds.
Also brought back bumper cases which I loved.
I feel they’ll sell less in quantity, but make money on the accessories? They did mention them specifically during the presentation of the iPhone 16 Air.
Camera bump madness!
By the way, for everyone that says you’re supposed to buy a case for it, well hear me out…
Being expected to buy a case in addition to the separate purchase of the phone, well that means the phone itself isn’t even complete. And it was literally engineered that way, some extra parts and assembly expected on your part.
But if you do opt for a phone case, well that case also holds in heat and makes it get even hotter while charging or in use, which itself is also not good for the device.
A properly designed device shouldn’t have a camera bump, but should rather have a flush uniform and sturdy enough screen and shell that you shouldn’t particularly even need a separate phone case in the first place.
What is “APR”?
on the iPhone 16 Pro (ofc I haven’t seen the new phones so cannot yet say), even the case had a camera bump
Hurl
Yeah it’s been this way for a while, even my 13 mini has one
looks like one more even than that
looks like one more even than that
I searched way harder than I should’ve needed to find a case that had a flush camera cutout for my 15 pro. Like, fuck me for not wanting to let the camera lens touch the table when I put it down lol.
Dayum ☹️
Ok now make it twice as thick and half as tall.
Only twice? How about 4 times as thick?
If I could have a phone that lasts 4-6 days without a recharge, take my money!
Only twice? How about 4 times as thick?
I just measured my iPhone 16 Pro’s thickness with a caliper, too lazy to read the actual specifications, got around 8-8.5mm. If we multiplied 5.6mm (iPhone 17 Air) by 4 that would be 22.4mm which is nearly 7/8” thick.
That would be an absolutely brick to lug around personally, I can barely fit my current phone with its otter box in my pocket as is and comfortably sit down.
I meant four times as thick as that new ultra thin design, but I’d even that that one you just said.
If that means I only need to charge once a week, I’m in
I meant four times as thick as that new ultra thin design,
Yes, to which I responded in my original comment with:
If we multiplied 5.6mm (iPhone 17 Air) by 4 that would be 22.4mm which is nearly 7/8” thick.
You’re talking almost a full inch.
Ah okay
I’d still take it
Only the 1 camera? And still the full width camera bump? And it’s a full width camera bump that won’t sit flat
That camera bump contains the camera and the phones logic board. It’s basically the entire phone minus the battery and screen.
But Apple said it’s a special new hybrid camera that has two cameras in that one camera!
i can’t believe the pro iphone has 8 cameras in 3 cameras!
Wow! That’s a 2.6 cpc value! What an achievement!
how many cameras does the front camera have? because if it’s not 3 it’s bringing down their cpc ratio
it has three cameras…two are invisible.
That « optical quality telephoto » garbage makes my blood boil
Can’t wait for this to get into the hands of JerryRigEverything
the folding iphone is finally here!
Hahahah love it
haha it’s an old meme
Thin = more battery swap services anyone who says otherwise is Apple shill
EU should mandate removable back phones like we used to have. Not this hot glued shit, save that for Tesla trucks.
finally got 120hz in the base model too
Camera bump
It features a 6.5-inch OLED display
Not even sub 6. 😞
They are making stupid big phones to set themselves up for when they invent the folding screen models in 2026. Folders are great, but others have been making them for years.
I have seen one and I have my doubts. Perhaps another 10 years.
