The Apple iPhone Air is a very Apple product, if that makes sense – the phone sacrifices a lot to hit its design target of 5.6mm thickness and 165g weight.
While it is hardly a battery endurance champ, the Air makes up for it with a unique feeling in the hand for anyone who has only used thick and heavy smartphones.
The other sacrifice you have to make when going with the iPhone Air is that you only get a single 48MP camera on the back.
Some of them gave up, but not Apple – the iPhone Air was sold well enough to warrant a sequel.
However, this September is reserved for the iPhone 18 Pro models, so the new Air might have to wait until spring 2027.
The Apple iPhone Air is a very Apple product, if that makes sense – the phone sacrifices a lot to hit its design target of 5.6mm thickness and 165g weight. While it is hardly a battery endurance champ, the Air makes up for it with a unique feeling in the hand for anyone who has only used thick and heavy smartphones.
At 165g, the Air weighs more like a 6.3” phone, but instead it has a 6.5” display – a 120Hz LTPO OLED with Ceramic Shield 2 and an anti-reflective coating. The battery that fits inside the slim and light body has only 3,149mAh capacity, but Apple managed to eke out an average 12:44h Active Use Score. The Pixel 10 Pro XL (232g, 5,200mAh battery) only got 12:29h. A vanilla iPhone 17 (177g, 3,692mAh) did better with a result of 14:59h.
The other sacrifice you have to make when going with the iPhone Air is that you only get a single 48MP camera on the back. It’s not a particularly good camera either. Still, the Air is a very popular model – and its arrival caused several Android manufacturers to try and jump on the super thin bandwagon too.
Some of them gave up, but not Apple – the iPhone Air was sold well enough to warrant a sequel. However, this September is reserved for the iPhone 18 Pro models, so the new Air might have to wait until spring 2027.
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