Apple revealed the iPhone air, a slim and light version of the iPhone with a large screen and a rear camera. It is the thinnest iPhone of all time, and the first flagship iPhone model in three years in three years.
The iPhone Air was announced alongside the iPhone 17, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max at the Awe Droping event of Apple. It replaces the iPhone 16 Plus in the flagship range.
Although it is much thinner and lighter than the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the iPhone Air contains a lot of hardware power in its thin setting. He has the new A19 Pro chipset, a 6.5 -inch screen with promotion and a 48 Mp rear camera with the capacitive shutter button.
Apple does not often publish a new iPhone model, so the revelation of the iPhone Air marks a fairly big time for the technology giant – continue to read for the key things you need to know about iPhone air.
Pursue
- 6.5 inch display
- 5.6 mm thick
- A19 Pro Chipset
- Rear melting camera at the unique 48MP rear
- 18MP selfie camera with central scene
- “Battery life all day” according to Apple
- Titanium
- Ceramic shield 2 on the front and rear glass
The thinnest iPhone of all time
The iPhone Air has a new design, with a thin pill -shaped camera bump and a thinner and lighter construction. It is only 5.6 mm thick, thinner than any other iPhone, including the Samsung Galaxy S25 EDGE rival.
In terms of look, it is somewhere between the old iPhone 16 Plus and the new iPhone 17 Pro Max, inspired by the two design styles. It sports the same rocking, the same power button, the action button and the camera control as the iPhone 17, with a single USB-C port.
The iPhone Air has a titanium frame and uses ceramic shield glass 2 on the front and rear panels. Apple has said that the iPhone Air is its “most sustainable design to date”.
The iPhone schedule is available in four colors: black space, cloudy white, light gold and sky blue.
Price and availability
The iPhone air starts at $ 999 / £ 999 / $ 1,799 for the model with 256 GB of storage, $ 1 199 / £ 1,199 $ 2199 for the model with 512 GB of storage and $ 1,399 / £ 1,399 £ / $ 2.599 for the model with 1TB storage.
Sitting between iphone 17 at $ 799 and iphone 17 pro at $ 1,099. It is higher than the $ 899 starting price from the iPhone 16 Plus with 128 GB of storage, but the same as the iPhone 16 Plus with 256 GB of storage.
As for what you get for your money, the iPhone Air has faster and faster chipset A19 Pro, a 6.5 -inch screen and a titanium frame. The iPhone 16 Plus has an additional ultra-large camera, a 6.7-inch larger screen and probably a larger battery.
The two phones have a main camera of 48 MP, the camera control button, the action button and the management of Apple Intelligence.
The iPhone Air, like the iPhone 17 series, will be available for pre -order on September 12 and on store shelves on September 19.
A19 Pro Chipset
The iPhone air is delivered with the new A19 Pro chipset. The A18 Pro chipset was already one of the most powerful iPhone chipsets in recent memory, so we are delighted to see what the A19 Pro can do in our tests.
Like the rest of the iPhone 17 range, the iPhone Air supports Apple Intelligence. This means that it has at least 8 GB of RAM.
The iPhone Air also has the new N1 chip for Bluetooth and WiFi, as well as Cellular C1 Modem introduced with the iPhone 16th.
6.5 inch promotion display
The iPhone Air has a 6.5 inch screen, seated between the 6.3 inch display of the iPhone 17 and the 6.9 -inch panel of the iPhone 17 Pro Max. The display peaks at 3000 nits of brightness and is reinforced by the technology of the Apple ceramic shield.
In addition to the ordinary iPhone 17, the iPhone Air has been equipped with a promotion screen, allowing the screen to adjust from 1 to 120 Hz depending on what is on the screen.
For reference, the refresh rate indicates the frequency to which a screen redraws the image on the screen. A higher refreshment rate means that movement and animations seem smoother and more natural. All other flagship phones on the market already use 120 Hz or more, so it’s good to see Apple finally catch up.
A rear camera and an improved selfie cam
The iPhone 17 air is equipped with a single rear camera, a 48 MP wide camera with a 2x digital zoom “optical quality”.
In addition, the selfie camera has been upgraded to an 18MP sensor with a square sensor and a front of the stage, allowing identical performance, whether the phone is maintained in the landscape or vertical orientation.
The new handset is also delivered with a very thin version of the capacitive camera control button introduced with the iPhone 16 series, which gives users a control based on equipment on the shutter, zoom and other options.
This makes the iPhone Air the first flagship iPhone to launch without a second rear camera from the iPhone XR, which was published in 2018. In general, single camera iPhones are mid -range or budget options such as the iPhone 16th or iPhone is now dissected.
Apple clearly puts on the thin and light design of the iPhone 17 air being sufficient for a sales argument so that consumers give up a second camera. It is very rare that modern flagship phones are launching with a single rear camera.
ESIM only
Air iPhone uses an ESIM design only, which means that it does not use SIM cards. Users can rather register with a virtually operator, which facilitates switching between operators and activating specific travel plans.
It seems likely that the SIM tray has been sacrificed to make more space for the battery of the iPhone Air. The iPhone 17, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max are also only ESIM.
The battery life “all day”
Almost all the aerial rumors of the iPhone highlighted the reduction in the battery life, and although Apple did not admit this during its presentation, the chances are not superb.
Apple generally indicates the battery life of its phones in continuous video reading hours, but for iPhone air, the only assertion made was for “the battery life”.
We have also seen a new Magsafe Slim loading pack revealed, and with this attached apple says that the iPhone Air receives 40 hours of video playback. It’s good, but useless to try to determine the amount of battery that the phone gets on its own.
