7d ago

iPhone 17 Air: Here's What Apple's Thinnest iPhone Ever Will Look Like

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It looks like an iPhone. But thinner.
- Pixel 9, is that you?
Is there really a market for people who want the thinnest phone possible? I thought the days of the RAZR V3 and SLVR were of the past?
- For Apple and other phone manufacturers battery replacements is a point where they can pressure people to upgrade. China has developed a new battery tech with about twice the capacity of standard lithium batteries. When that becomes standard in phones they want people ro be used to the idea of buying half the phone for the same price. Personally, I would prefer 2 day battery life on a full charge if there is a new technology that doubles battery capacity. At best Apple is likely to to keep that in the ‘Pro’ phones until there are $300 android phones with the technology.
  
  A bigger battery also means you can use your phone for longer for high energy tasks. Like recording video and a high brightness screen still eats battery pretty quickly.
  Before smartphones, battery life of mobile phones was several days.
- i might. depends what the tradeoffs are.
  
  No more ports and only wireless charging would be the next sacrifice for anything thinner.
Will be interesting to check out their chassis design considerations in order to avoid another bendgate like on the iPhone 6.
….unless they forgot which would be equally funny.

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