Adam Kos iPhone Air is certainly the biggest design change in the portfolio Applu for many years. But its thinness, which is characterized by it, also entails many concessions. Form here surpasses function, and the following options had to be invented or somehow limited. But it is true that not everyone has to mind.
Battery
iPhone Air It has a 3mAh battery, which is less than the 149mAh in the smaller (though more powerful) iPhone 3 and much less than the 692mAh in the iPhone 17 Pro. Max (5 mAh, if you get the eSIM-only model in the given markets). Does this mean significantly less battery life? We don't know yet, but we're all afraid of it. But a smaller battery also means slower charging - as the basic iPhone 17, so 17 Pro Max can charge to 50% in 20 minutes, Air it takes 30 minutes to do so.
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Cameras
iPhone Air has only one main camera. For many, this may not be a problem, just like the iPhone 16e, but Air costs almost twice as much and thus ranks among ultra premium segment, where it is already a problem. And it is not even the best main camera, which Apple It can. It is the same as the basic phone - it has a 1/1,56” sensor, which is smaller than the 1/1,28” sensor on both iPhone 17 Pro models. As for the pixel size, it is 1,0 µm compared to 1,22 µm. It can also only do 4K video at 60 fps and not 120 fps. There is no LiDAR and logically no spatial photos and videos.
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Full-fat Pro chipset
It is true that he has iPhone Air A19 Pro chip, but it's not the same one that's in the models iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. These have a 6-core CPU, 6-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine, while iPhone Air here it only has a 5-core GPU. But the RAM memory should be the same 12GB, here it loses mainly the basic iPhone 17, which retains 8 GB of RAM.
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Stereo speakers
You might be surprised to know that iPhone Air has a single speaker – the one built into the top. The bottom of the USB-The C port may simply not have enough space for an additional speaker, or Apple rather, he decided to make better use of this space, probably for the battery. How this will affect the performance, we don't know yet, but physics is physics and two is always better than one.
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SIM slot
It's questionable whether this is a sacrifice, but it's certainly extra work. It's not enough to simply remove the SIM from your old iPhone and insert it into the SIM tray on your iPhone. Air, because it doesn't have a drawer. So you have to deal with activating the eSIM. And it's again a concession for the sake of thinness and a larger battery.
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