Apple Debuts The $999 Ultra-thin Iphone Air

Move over, iPhone Plus, present comes your super-slim replacement: nan iPhone Air.

During Apple’s iPhone arena connected Tuesday, nan institution unveiled nan iPhone Air, its thinnest and lightest exemplary to date. This replaces nan Plus exemplary successful nan company’s 2025 lineup, pursuing nan underperformance of nan iPhone 16 Plus past year, based connected information from investigation patient DSCC.

The prima of today’s arena draws inspiration from Apple’s MacBook Air strategy, which debuted successful 2008 arsenic nan thinnest laptop available, positioned betwixt nan much affordable MacBook and nan higher-quality MacBook Pro.

Now, Apple is applying nan “Air” conception to nan iPhone, emphasizing thinness and lightness arsenic nan main trading points.

The “airiness” consciousness is acknowledgment to its titanium frame, and it measures astatine conscionable 5.6 millimeters thick. This makes it astir 0.08 inches (or somewhat complete 2 mm) thinner than existent iPhones and thinner than Samsung’s 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge. For a amended thought of really bladed it is, deliberation astir 4 stacked dimes, which full astir 5.4 mm. 

The telephone features a ample 6.6-inch display, sporting nan aforesaid 120Hz ProMotion setup recovered connected nan Pro models. It runs connected nan A19 Pro chip, besides conscionable for illustration nan caller Pro and Pro Max models, providing a capacity boost complete nan guidelines iPhone 17 model. 

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Another absorbing item is that it’s an e-SIM-only device. This helps support nan telephone looking sleek since there’s nary request for a beingness SIM paper slot. It besides offers much information than regular SIM cards, arsenic they can’t beryllium easy removed from a mislaid aliases stolen phone.

When rumors began circulating astir nan iPhone Air, galore concerns centered connected artillery life and nan absence of 2 rear cameras, for illustration what nan Plus exemplary has. However, during nan event, Apple introduced its caller 48-megapixel fusion camera system, which functions arsenic aggregate precocious cameras successful one.

Despite being thinner, nan iPhone Air offers all-day artillery life. Additionally, pinch nan iOS 26 update, users will summation nan “Adaptive Power Mode” feature, which utilizes Apple Intelligence to make intelligent adjustments passim nan day, thereby helping to widen artillery life.

Still, Apple appeared to admit nan artillery concerns by unveiling a caller statement of accessories exclusive to nan Air, including a slim MagSafe artillery that is compact capable to fresh successful your pocket. When utilizing this further battery, users tin bask up to 40 hours of video playback.

Additionally, 2 civilization cases are disposable for nan iPhone Air: 1 is simply a translucent lawsuit that is conscionable 1 mm heavy and comes successful frost and protector colors, while nan different is simply a lightweight bumper disposable successful 4 matching colors. Notably, nan iPhone Air tin besides beryllium paired pinch a caller cross-body strap.

As for nan colour options, nan iPhone Air is disposable successful “Space Black,” “Cloud White,” ray gold, and entity blue.

Apple joins nan ‘thinness wars,’ but will it entreaty to nan wide public?

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Rumors of a new, ultra-thin iPhone, perchance named “Air,” first surfaced successful 2024 from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who recently argued that nan thinner creation will group nan modular for each early iPhone models, akin to really nan MacBook Air influenced Apple’s laptop lineup.

When nan MacBook Air first came out, it was praised for being ultraportable astatine a clip erstwhile astir laptops were dense and bulky. However, it besides received a batch of disapproval for being excessively costly and having immoderate shortcomings, specified arsenic mediocre connectivity and a slow, mini difficult drive.

Still, nan original exemplary group nan shape for nan 2010 version, which was revamped pinch improved processors and a much affordable starting value of $999. Since then, nan MacBook Air has been Apple’s apical seller for much than a decade.

With that being said, anyone reasoning astir buying nan iPhone Air should see whether holding disconnected for later versions pinch upgrades and amended features is simply a smarter move. Or, for those diehard Apple fans, possibly it’s worthy owning nan original exemplary for bragging rights.

Additionally, nan slimmer telephone could pave nan measurement for a future iPhone that folds, a conception that has been rumoured and is predicted to motorboat astir nan aforesaid clip adjacent year. A foldable instrumentality would thief Apple compete pinch Samsung and Google, while besides helping it regain marketplace stock successful China, where it has been struggling recently.