"The Apple iPhone Air feels like something that Apple from a few years ago would design - things get sacrificed at the altar of cool design, no matter whether people think those features were essential (or that the design is all that cool). We've seen unreliable butterfly keyboards and iffy cooling on MacBooks, we've seen bendy iPhones and ones that have connectivity issues depending on how you grip them."
"The iPhone Air has a 3,149mAh battery - coming up short of the 3,692mAh battery inside the smaller (though thicker) iPhone 17 and is much smaller than the 4,832mAh battery in the 17 Pro Max (5,088mAh if you get an eSIM-only model). That means lower endurance on a single charge - we haven't tested it ourselves yet, however, numbers from the EU energy label suggest that the iPhone Air lasts 40 hours on a single charge,"
"To make things worse, the smaller battery also means slower charging - both the vanilla iPhone 17 and the 17 Pro Max can get to 50% in 20 minutes, the Air needs 30 minutes to get there. This is despite having less capacity to fill. Interestingly, Apple didn't sacrifice MagSafe support, which might have shaved off a fraction of a millimeter."
The iPhone Air prioritizes extreme thinness at 5.64mm, producing visible trade-offs in endurance and features. The phone uses a 3,149mAh battery versus 3,692mAh in the smaller iPhone 17 and 4,832mAh in the 17 Pro Max, with EU energy-label figures indicating about 40 hours versus 41 and 53 hours respectively. Charging speed suffers, reaching 50% in roughly 30 minutes compared with 20 minutes on thicker models. MagSafe support remains, potentially encouraging use of external battery accessories. The Air features a 6.5" display, smaller than the larger 6.7" and flagship panels, and longer-term compromises will emerge with extended use.
Read at GSMArena.com
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