As expected, Apple announced a new member of the iPhone family during the event. The iPhone Air is the thinnest iPhone yet, measuring just 5.6mm thick, and made of spacecraft-grade titanium. Ceramic Shield 2 surrounds the iPhone Air on both sides, which helps make it more durable than any previous iPhone. The Air’s always-on screen measures 6.5-inches, and it supports ProMotion and up to 3,000 nits of brightness.
Valentina Palladino
Not sure how you can get away with claiming this as the thinnest iPhone yet when its upper quarter is thicker than many past iPhones. No longer the inconspicuous camera bump from 10 years ago, this is a full-blown bulge, with a camera bump on top.
actually, I can understand how: Apple simply refuses to acknowledge anything outside their marketing angle, and the tech press just goes along with it lest they get banned from Apple events. Case in point: there’s zero mentions of iPhone Air’s actual width, measured at its thickest point, while everybody repeats Apple’s preferred dimension.
Apple redesigned the iPhone 17 Pro lineup from the ground up to include the first anodized aluminum unibody design in an iPhone. It was made to include the biggest battery ever in an Apple smartphone, an upgraded rear camera array, a new thermal system and more.
Starting with the new thermal management system, it’s designed to manage power and surface temperature. A new vapor chamber directs heat throughout the device so it dissipates more efficiently. This is necessary to manage performance for Apple’s most powerful iPhone, which is powered by the A19 Pro chipset.
Hmm, I distinctly remember Apple fans endlessly mocking Windows laptops just for having fans for higher performance. I guess they simply needed cooler words like ‘vapor chamber cooling’ to appear special and hip. Despite their supposed massive edge in chip design, it seems like Apple can’t escape the laws of physics after all. Naturally, you won’t hear a peep from their fans wondering why their iPhones suddenly need fans to perform, because everything Apple does is the embodiment of perfection, and everything the competition does is an Apple knock-off, even if it was launched years earlier.
The new rear camera setup sits on a “plateau” of sorts on the top half of the back of the device. The array features a new 48MP telephoto lens, which can shoot up to 8x “optical quality” zoom at 12MP and 4x at its full 48MP. That’s accompanied by two 48MP wide and ultra wide sensors, plus the 18MP center stage lens on the front of the phone.
Snark comments aside, the top-heavy ‘plateau’ design looks very ugly to me on any phone, be it the iPhone Air, Pro, or the Pixel where I think the trend started years ago. I haven’t considered buying a Pixel Phone because of this despite their other improvements – I’m not particularly fond of the stock Android design either.
I honestly don’t see how the Air would be a precursor to a folding iPhone, like many speculated: that large bump would throw the whole device off-balance – unless you have similar bumps on both halves, which I imagine would be the ugliest possible solution for a folding phone.
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