I feel like this is another well planned marketing campain to have people talk about the new iphone etc.
Does this really sell phones? Why don't you make it match the camera bump, even just a little bit and give us back the aux and maybe more battery life.
Of course they won't do that because then they wouldn't have an excuse to force us to buy their expensive bluetooth earbuds.
My new phone that I got as a gift doesn't have a jack. I'm so petty and frugal about it that rather than ordering a wireless earbud set, I instead ordered the cheapest jack to usb-c dongle I found that wasn't on Temu. It works a charm. I will NEVER buy wireless headphones.
i have been an Android user through and through. Don't want to give an enny to the giant oligopoly spearhead if i can help it...
Anyways, my colleague had bought an iPhone 6 an year after it was released. I remember to this day vividly, we were in the elevator, we were talking about it. He took it out, I held his iPhone 6 in my hand, and it was the most surreal experience I have had with technology up until that point.
It just felt Unbelievable, Unreal, to see a phone so lightweight, so thin, so compact, and not be a toy/downscaled dummy unit. Even the curved sides, which were aesthetically unappealing at first in photos, just clicked when I actually held the phone in my own hand.
It's been almost a decade, and still I feel like I have never seen a smartphone that had such a perfect in hand feeling.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't buy it because Android just had too much going for it and for my preference and use case, iOS never was going to be a consideration. But for a fleeting moment, I really envied my colleague for having one of the best feeling smartphones at the time.
Until you put a protective case on it and it feels just like every other phone in a case.
I honestly wouldn’t mind a thick phone if it also included aux port and larger battery.
so long as the corners are sloped/rounded, phones can be like 1cm thick no problem, and i truly do not understand the obsession with thinner phones
our hands are curved, why do people want a bunch of empty space between the palm and the phone? might as well fill that space with battery.
That was basically how the pre-lenovo Motorola phones were all built. Take the Nexus 6 for example, the edges were really thin, only a few mm, but the back curved so at the middle it was nearly a cm thick.
objectively superior design
That phone was a goddamn tank I dropped my Nexus 6 down a flight of concrete stairs without a case and by some miracle only the plastic on one corner was scratched. I stopped at HTC One down those exact same stairs and it disintegrated before it hit stair 3.
I still have mine its amazing and will outlive me.
IS IT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR A PHONE THAT CAN BE MAINTAINED AND SURVIVE LIFE!?
sorry to yell. i just feel like i'm going crazy
Fairphone is the closest we have. It's trivial to replace battery and other components.
Its honestly all making me think I should build a palmtop and shove a 5g module in it. Screw text messaging (matrix), screw phone service (I'll just set up VoIP), who needs a play store when ive got apt repos.
I don't care if it feels like 2007 in my pocket. I'll stick an 18650 or two in there and swap it when I need to. I can even be more ridiculous and make the keyboard mechanical.
To answer your question before its asked, yes, there is plenty wrong with me. Still though.
If you get around to making two, I'll buy the second one off of you.
(Sent from my GPD Win Max 2...)
That is kinda what drives me away from the Xiaomi 14/15 Ultra. Amazing camera, but even with a case it sticks out, and I drop phones all the time.
Biblically accurate camera.
My god, what even is this monstrosity
It has a 1" sensor. I'm not unhappy with my S23's camera, but trying to hold a phone steady for 2-8+ seconds in low-light conditions is pretty awful.
spoiler
Thks is what happens when you let the marketing dept. have even a taste of alcohol.
Don't think it was alcohol that was involved
Worse, the marketing department.
Though amusing, I feel it's worth noting this image had to go back over a decade—eleven years—to find an iPhone without a camera bump of some kind, and would have to go back 6 years to get a pro-level camera without a plateau of some kind.
I agree that a dual measurement should be included, body thickness and camera plateau, but it never has been, so here we are.
And to give credit where it's due, I have no desire to own an iPhone Air, but it IS a bit of astonishing engineering. They've used the plateau to provide a place for the logic board, and turned basically the entire body into a battery to preserve decent battery life. Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple has a world-class engineering team.
It's not really astonishing, that's Apple's marketing speaking. Phones have been thinner than this and the tech that Apple are using now already exists in many phones. Apple are great at selling something as new and innovative, their marketing is what is astonishing.
Please name the modern phones with performance levels matching the air that are thinner. I will wait
Edit: spoiler, there are none
Please name phones that are identical to this one. If just a single measurement is off, spoiler: I'm right!
“Phones have been thinner than this and the tech that Apple are using now already exists in many phones”
fails to provide even a single example
If you follow the phone market, then there's lots of phones that have new technologies before Apple. That's always been the case.
If you want a thin flagship example that you couldn't find yourself, then the Galaxy S25 Edge, is 5.8mm, with a smaller camera bump, better main camera, plus an ultrawide, is lighter, has more SIM support, higher resolution and brighter display, USB 3, bigger battery and faster charging.
The iPhone Air is not astonishing at all.
Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple
Sir, this is a Lemmy
And if only if it was just 1 mm thicker, or maybe 2, the battery could have been user replaceable.
Argh I hate those bumps. My phone has one and it can't lay evenly on any surface because of this >:(
A lens (the bottom one that hits the ground first) cracked the first week I got my iPhone 16, setting it down on a glass table.
Its a hairline crack, but still.
And it was in a case, but the bump is so freaking big the camera barely sticks out.
Meanwhile my old HTC and Razer phones (and old iPhones) never had this problem... Oh, but I forgot, they were a millimeter thicker and non-rectangles, therefore unusable?
I always have used a case because of this shit for the last 10 years when the camera bump bullshit started.
My current phone has a slight camera bump but it has less thickness than the case so that's no problem for me. The thicker bumps are not acceptable IMO. Although I don't care quite as much about that as I do about the hole punch in the screen for a selfie cam. My current phone also has a bezel selfie camera like in the civilized old days.
It has slimmed down to a gentle flat plane ... and due to underground tectonic forces, a small ridge is forming that will grow to become a mountain range in future versions
I've never understood disliking the bump.
Do y'all just go around with no phone case to protect your $1000+ phone?
Once a phone case is on there the bump is negligible, and thinner phone body means thinner case.
I've never used a phone case. I paid for this gorgeous piece of tech made from space age materials and I'll be damned if I cover it with cheap plastic.
Cheap plastic is a space age material.
