Apple has revealed the iphone air, a thin and light version of the iPhone with a large screen and a back camera. It is the thinnest iPhone of all time, and the first new Iphone Badge model in three years.
The iPhone Air was announced together with the iPhone 17, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max during the event ‘Awe Delwping’ of September 9, Apple. Replaces the iPhone 16 Plus on the flagship line.
Although it is much thinner and lighter than the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the iPhone air includes a lot of hardware food in its thin frame. It has the new A19 Pro chipset, a 6.5 -inch screen with promotion and a 48MP rear camera with the Chamber Control Capacitive Caburator button.
Apple does not usually launch a new iPhone model, so iphone air revelation marks a fairly great time for the technological giant: keep reading for the key things you need to know about the iPhone air.
Cut to the chase
- 6.5 -inch screen
- 5.6 mm thick
- Professional Chipset A19
- 48mp fusion chamber on a single rear
- 18MP Selfie Camera with Center Stage
- “Battery duration all day” according to Apple
- Titanium frame
- Ceramic shield 2 in the front and rear vessel
The thinnest iPhone of all time
The iPhone air has a new design, with a thin pill -shaped chamber blow and a thinner and lighter construction. It measures only 5.6 mm thick, thinner than any other iPhone, including rival Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.
In terms of appearance, it is somewhere between the old iPhone 16 Plus and the new iPhone 17 Pro Max, taking signs of both design styles. It has the same balance volume, ignition button, action button and camera control as the iPhone 17, with a single USB-C port.
The iPhone air has a titanium frame and uses Ceramic Shield 2 glass on the front and rear panels. Apple said that iPhone air is its “more durable design so far.”
The iPhone air comes in four colors: black space, white in the cloud, light gold and sky blue.
Price and availability
The iPhone air begins at $ 999 / £ 999 / A $ 1,799 for the model with 256 GB of storage, $ 1,199 / £ 1.199 / A $ 2,199 for the model with 512GB of storage and $ 1,399 / £ 1,399 / A $ 2,599 for the model with 1TB of storage.
As for the price, it is between the iPhone 17 to $ 799 and the iPhone 17 Pro to $ 1,099. That is higher than the initial price of $ 899 of 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 he gets for his money, the Air iPhone has the fastest and newest Pro Chipset, a 6.5 -inch screen and a titanium frame. The iPhone 16 Plus has an additional ultra wide camera, a larger 6.7 inches screen and probably a larger battery.
Both phones have a main 48mp camera, the camera control button, the action button and the support for Apple Intelligence.
The iPhone air, such as the iPhone 17 series, will be available for pre-placed on September 12 and on store shelves on September 19.
Professional Chipset A19
The iPhone air comes with the new chipset A19 Pro. The chipset a18 pro was already one of the most powerful iPhone chips in recent memory, so we are excited to see what the A19 Pro can do in our tests. Like the rest of the iPhone 17 line, the Air iPhone is compatible with Apple Intelligence. That means it has at least 8 GB of RAM.
The iPhone air also has the new N1 chip for Bluetooth and Wifi, as well as the C1 modem C1 introduced with the 16E iPhone.
6.5 -inch promotion screen
The iPhone Air has a 6.5 -inch screen, sitting between the 6.3 -inch screen of the iPhone 17 and the 6.9 -inch panel of the iPhone 17 Pro Max. The screen reaches its maximum point in 3000 Nits of brightness and is reinforced by Apple Ceramic Shield 2 technology.
Together with the regular iPhone 17, the iPhone Air has been equipped with a promotion screen, which allows the screen to adjust 1-120Hz based on what is on the screen.
As a reference, the update rate denotes a screen again draws the image on the screen. A higher update rate means that movement and animations are softer and more natural. All other flagship phones in the market already use 120Hz or more, so it is good to see that Apple finally updates.
A rear camera and an improved selfie camera
The iPhone 17 air is equipped with a single rear camera, a 48mp -wide camera with 2x digital Óptica ‘zoom.
In addition, the Selfie Chamber has been updated to an 18MP sensor with a square sensor and a central scenario, which allows identical performance if the phone remains in landscape or vertical orientation.
The new telephone also comes with a very thin version of the capacitive camera button introduced with the iPhone 16 series, which provides users based on hardware on the shutter, zoom and other options.
This causes the iPhone Air to be the first flagship iPhone that will be launched without a second rear camera from the iPhone XR, which was launched in 2018. Usually, the single camera iPhones are medium or economic range options such as the iPhone 16E or iPhone are now discontinued.
Apple is clearly depositing that the thin and light design of the iPhone 17 air is sufficient for a point of sale so that consumers give up a second camera. It is very rare that modern emblematic phones are launched with a single rear camera.
Just esim
The iPhone air uses a design only ESIM, which means that it does not use SIM cards. Instead, users can register with an operator virtually, which makes it easier to change between operators and activate specific travel plans.
The SIM tray seems likely to be sacrificed to leave more space for the iPhone Air battery. The iPhone 17, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max are also just Esim.
Battery life “throughout the day”
Almost all iphone air rumors pointed to a reduced battery reduction, and although Apple did not admit this during its presentation, the probabilities are not seen great.
Apple generally establishes the battery life of its phones in continuous video reproduction hours, but for the iPhone air, the only claim made was for “battery duration throughout the day.”
We also saw a new revealed Slimfe load package, and with this Deputy Apple states that the iPhone air receives 40 hours of video playback. That is good, but useless to try to calculate how much battery life gets the phone alone.
