Iphone Air Hands-on: The Super Sleek Precursor To Apple’s Upcoming Foldable

Apple mightiness not admit it (at slightest not yet), but nan iPhone Air is much than conscionable a slimmed-down type of nan company's latest handset aliases a much blase return connected its accustomed Plus model. It's a ace sleek preview of its upcoming foldable.

Now this mightiness look for illustration a agelong and there's thing to beryllium said astir nan quality betwixt a accepted OLED show and 1 that's meant to beryllium bent. However, nan presence of a foldable iPhone has go 1 of nan tech world's worst-kept secrets. Still not convinced? Well, see this. If you were successful complaint astatine Apple and were faced pinch nan task of figuring retired really to technologist and creation nan company's first telephone pinch a elastic display, really would you do it? Would you effort to re-invent nan wheel? No, you'd cheque retired your competitors to spot if location was a look that you could re-purpose for your needs. Enter Samsung, which is not only 1 of Apple's biggest rivals but besides a foldable telephone shaper that's already 7 generations deep.

Furthermore, if we look backmost to this outpouring erstwhile Samsung released nan Galaxy S25 Edge, you mightiness already beryllium noticing immoderate similarities. Just for illustration nan iPhone Air, nan S25 Edge is simply a thinner, much elegant return connected Samsung's middle-child flagship phone: nan S25+. It has a batch of nan aforesaid shortcomings for illustration a smaller artillery and less cameras than you'd different expect connected a premium instrumentality that costs astir $1,000.

But nan biggest hint that Apple mightiness beryllium taking a page retired of Samsung's playbook is nan iPhone Air's thinness. The thought of simply making a slimmer iPhone pinch worse specs without lowering its value doesn't really make consciousness successful 2025. Unless you're doing truthful successful mentation for a early product. So if we see nan S25 Edge again (which measures conscionable 5.88mm thick) and past comparison that to nan Galaxy Z Fold 7 (which came retired conscionable a mates months later and measures 4.2mm heavy erstwhile unfolded), abruptly an unmistakable shape originates to form. The iPhone 17 Air is 1 half of Apple's upcoming foldable and if nan rumors are correct, adjacent twelvemonth Apple is fundamentally going to smash 2 of them together while adding a hinge and a elastic screen. Voila, there's your iPhone Fold (or immoderate Apple ends up calling it).

OK, capable speculation, what astir nan iPhone Air itself? In short, this point is deliciously bladed astatine conscionable 5.6mm. It really is 1 of those things that you can't afloat admit until you clasp it successful your hand. It has beautifully polished edges and while I don't emotion nan word camera plateau, there's a batch of sophistication successful nan subtle slope that rises up to meet nan phone's lone 48MP rear camera.

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