Apple Announces iPhone Air, the Slimmest iPhone Ever

Apple conscionable announced the thinnest iPhone it has ever made: the iPhone Air. At conscionable 5.6mm thick, it's a afloat millimeter-and-then-some thinner than the 6.9mm iPhone 6, and lone a small thicker than the 5.4mm M4 iPad Pro. The iPhone Air volition beryllium disposable for preorder starting September 12th for $999, and volition beryllium officially retired connected September 19th.

The caller telephone comes successful 4 colors: Sky Blue, Light Gold, Cloud White, and Space Black. It's got a 6.5-inch, 120Hz ProMotion OLED display, which has a adaptable refresh complaint ranging from 1Hz for its always-on show diagnostic to 120Hz, conscionable similar the remainder of this year's iPhone lineup. It tin besides scope up to 3,000-nit highest outdoor brightness, with 1,000 nits its emblematic maximum and 1,600 nits its highest HDR brightness. The framework is simply a polished, glossy titanium, and the telephone uses Ceramic Shield 2 solid connected the beforehand and back, which the institution claims volition beryllium 4 times much scratch resistant to erstwhile iPhones' backmost glass, portion the framework is made up of arsenic good arsenic azygous camera embedded wrong an elevated barroom that stretches crossed the apical of the phone's back.

Battery beingness is simply a immense interest with a telephone this thin, but incredibly, it volition person artillery show akin to the iPhone 16 Pro, astatine slightest according to the specs connected Apple's site. The institution claims up to 27 hours of video playback and 22 hours of streaming. Those are identical to numbers the institution claims for the 16 Pro. Apple besides announced a new, slimmer MagSafe artillery battalion – the telephone supports MagSafe, by the mode – to coincide with the phone's release, and with that the institution says you'll get up to 40 hours oregon 35 hours doing those activities, respectively. The telephone tin scope 50 percent complaint successful 30 minutes with a 20W adapter via its USB-C port, the institution says.

The telephone features conscionable 1 48MP camera connected the back, called a "Fusion camera system" that Apple says makes it efficaciously relation arsenic 4 lenses. It tin sprout 24MP and 48MP photos utilizing the "main" camera, oregon it tin instrumentality 12MP "optical-quality" photos erstwhile you power to 2x telephoto mode, which inactive has optical representation stabilization. The telephone besides supports up to 10x integer zoom. The iPhone Air tin besides grounds Dolby Vision video astatine 4K, betwixt 24fps and 60fps, 1080p betwixt 25fps and 60fps, and 720p astatine 30fps. It supports the iOS Action mode for signaling 30fps video of fast-moving things similar sporting events, astatine up to 2.8K Dolby Vision. In video mode, its integer zoom goes up to 6X.

On the front, you'll find an 18MP selfie camera that supports Center Stage, Apple's integer panning feature, besides recovered connected Macs and iPads, that keeps you centered successful frame. The institution says it volition automatically zoom retired if much radical leap into frame, redeeming you a small spot of effort erstwhile trying to instrumentality radical shots and others join.

The telephone comes with 256 GB of storage, an A19 Pro spot – the aforesaid that's successful the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max – and a 5-core GPU with AI accelerators built into each core. Apple says the telephone volition person MacBook Pro-level compute. Also, it uses Apple's in-house cellular modem, the C1x, which Apple claims is 2 times faster than the C1 that debuted successful the iPhone 16e earlier this year. It supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and has a vigor for Thread, a astute location wireless protocol that's a large portion of the cosmopolitan Matter astute location standard.

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