Facepalm

I honestly wouldn’t mind a thick phone if it also included aux port and larger battery.

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.

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.

Thks is what happens when you let the marketing dept. have even a taste of alcohol.

Argh I hate those bumps. My phone has one and it can't lay evenly on any surface because of this >:(

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

Also,

• iphone air: 156 x 74 x 5.64mm
• iphone 13 mini: 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.65mm

How about bring back the best phone you ever made you cowards.

Meh, whatever, I'll just not buy a phone then. Should be the best choice for many other reasons too.

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.

I suspect its main purpose is not to be a product in its own right but a tech demo of half the thickness of a folding iPhone when it arrives. Being a niche product for early adopters and fashion victims to be seen with is a secondary purpose.

I feel like this is another well planned marketing campain to have people talk about the new iphone etc.

People want good cameras.

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.