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The biggest announcement that comes out of Starting iPhone 17 Series’ It was not about it before this week The most powerful iPhone still – It was for the hardest. To 5.6 mm or less than a quarter inches iPhone Air stole the show. Although it was far from the first main “thin phone”, it can only start a trend in a big way to come.
In the mobile industry there are long-lasting feelings around Apple’s influence on telephone trends: Once the iPhone-Maker makes a powerful design of design, the following companies follow. This was true in 2007. years when the company was debuted the original iPhone (And others followed the design on the front-glass screen), true when the iPad debuted to popularize the tablet format and it was unfortunately, when the headphone jack was solved.
So, the big question is: will the iPhone Air make thin phones mainstream? Probably not, the CNET Senior Technology Reporter Abrar Al-Heeti, who was on the field on the Apple heading for the event, and received the deadline for new, Skinny iPhone. But now, a thin phone niche strengthens a brand with some of the most hearted fans.
“Apple doesn’t necessarily set a trend with an iPhone Air, because so many phone manufacturers have already developed thin phones,” Al-Heeti said. “But that may have legitimized the form factor among people who wanted a thin phone and sworn fidelity to Apple products.”
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There are several reasons for Apple’s reasons to be thin iPhone. The most obvious: The company believes that consumers want to. Would not be alone in the opinion, as Samsung debuted his Galaxy S25 Edge Earlier this year. We still wait for the official sales to see if customers are eager to opt for 5.8 mm telephone over its series 7.2 mm and thicker S25. Missed information suggests that the sale was encouraged, according to ElecBut Al-Heeti found it that, “I grew up on his thin, a light design that holds any other phone feels like withdrawal.”
IPhone Air is the biggest redesigning on the iPhone for some time in X-rays during launch events, Apple performed some technical wizard in the crowd of almost all chips and hardware in the top of the phone. Aesthetically new page is in the company’s book, as a way that Apple complains about the second subcooling of customers, said Nabila Popal, senior director of data on data and analytical Corporation and analytics.
“IPhone Air is an Apple’s thinner phone ever and her bravest movement of iPhone X”, said Popal. “They will draw users who love Leek aesthetics, while propasseness proizes the crown for most priority users to priority battery and camera performance.”
Analysts I talked to the letter that iPhone is a few purpose from replacing iPhone 16s to the Apple line (like its home C1X Modem and N1 are also back to the idea that iPhone will open floods for thinner phones.
“I think we knew that thin and light phones would reach regardless of the apple launch,” Anshel Sag said, the main analyst on marine insights and strategy.
What role does the iPhone Air play play?
So far, iPhone Air and Galaxy S25 are both sliced in the middle of their lines, offering aesthetic choice that has yet had slight specifications over their Standard iPhone 17 and sisters and sisters S25, respectively. They are novelties in the middle of the same and perhaps they arrive at the right time in the middle of not many other innovations.
This generation of the iPhone is less about the provision of breakthrough specifications and more about smart prices and distinguishing design differences at each level, said the contrix research associate director David Naranjo.
“IPHONE AIR is a wild card – if he echoing, Apple expands Premium medium and raises the margin, without the need for a passage across the board,” Naranjo said.
Samsung Galaxy S25 edge, another incredibly thin phone.
This 48 megapixel synchronized camera on the back of the iPhone is its biggest obvious shortcoming. (We will wait for our whole audit to see other factors like its battery life and performance.) To $ 999 to start, has a similar solo camera as $ 599 iPhone 16e. Even Edge Galaxy S25 managed to keep an ultravid back camera. It is clear that there is a price to pay for the action.
“I just think this first generation of thin phones makes a lot of compromise, whether it’s on the battery capacity or camera configuration, I hope it will solve over time,” said Sag. “It’s a lot that we’ve seen on the folds.”
The SAG is Bullish that the air will sell and believes that its camera and battery options will improve over time. In a way, the first generation device is still, and later and aircraft air devices can manage the bush to multiple cameras and battery capacities.
The apple enters the same design restrictions like other phone manufacturers who tried to make thin headphones in the past, AVI Greengart, President and the main analyst at TechSpontenti. Emphasized the modular Motorola Moto Z This was launched in 2016, which was 5.2 mm thick, but it was needed by its magnetic backup accessories adding bulk: “without that accessory, the Moto Z was too endangered and did not sell it well,” Greengart said.
Apple sells Magsafe battery accessory for iPhone Air.
The life of the battery is the main concern for thin phones. Loss of space inside the phone means that something must be given and the battery capacity is assumed. Although they have the same size screen, the Galaxy S25 Plus It has a battery of 4,900 mAh while the thin galaxy S25 edges is 3,900 mAh. For its part, Apple does not share the specificity of the capacity. But during startup Iphone 17 launch, the company promised that the iPhone Air will have a full battery battery … and then immediately presented the Magsafa charging package. It was laughed from the presence and presses in the audience.
Без обзира да ли се иПхоне ваздух продаје на масовним волумима, она се отвара могућност за Аппле – не само за нову купцу, већ и за све што Аппле може радити на којем ће можда радити на на којем се може радити. The Popal IDC explicitly noted that the design of the diluent phone that sails “path to the folding iPhone possibly next year”. She is I’m not in thinking like that.
“I think a lot of these thin phones are much more engineering exercises to allow better folding,” said Sag.
Does an iPhone air make the foundation for iPhone flip?
Apple allegedly worked on a folding iPhone, which is sometimes called iPhone flipSince potentially before the pandemic Savid-19 began 2020. years. While the first folding phones were debuted that year of Samsung and Motorola, they were in rough form, but subsequent iteration over the years increased their durability and functions. While leaks and rumors suggest that Apple works on its own folding device, some of these early reports claim that the impossibility of reducing the folds on the screen, where it is left, its release was postponed.
IPhone air as seen from the side. Note the enlarged camera, where most phone hardware is located.
The technical technique, the air acts like the steps from the iPhone, which is Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7. Moving most hardware is something that makes it a popular way that companies become approximately the Internet of their preference to Ipikit Z Flip 6 TeardownWhere the lower half of the device is basically only a larger battery (smaller is paired with chips and most hardware in the upper half).
Getting an iPhone to 5.6 mm thick is also important to make sure that folded iPhone flip is not too bulky. Recent Overlooking Bookkeeping has been released this year thinner than ever: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is only 8.9 mm when it is folded (or 4.2 mm when it takes place) Oppo Find N5 It is approximately 5.93 mm when folded (or 4.21 mm when it separates straight). Even Google Pixel 10 Prology is not much thick in 10.8 mm when folded closed (or 5.2 mm when it takes place).
So, Apple has a good reason to cut off on the thickness of your iPhones, even if sales does not take off for this first generation iPhone Air. But outside making market products from milestones for research and development, it is also an experiment, to see if consumers will be sufficiently improved only by thineness.
“Apple bets that advanced materials, ESIM and more efficiently good phone allow consumer decisions to take over consumer decisions,” “Super-thin, super-thick phones like iPh25 and Samsung Galaxy S25 edges feel extremely beautiful.”
