It is called iPhone Air, simply, without sum to any number that would necessarily relate it to a family or a year. A name that evokes revolutions of small uses in Apple: everyone knows the MacBook Air and how it has ultra -adaptable PC of baptismal funds. The absence of numbering obviously opens the door to all possible assumptions in the place it must occupy.
As the iPhone is in its time, it could go to last a few years with this configuration … unlike the latter that remained too faithful to its fingerprint reader and its large screen edges, the iPhone Air has a design ready for the future. Unless escape from a numbering because it is a Trojan horse, and there to prepare a near future, a rocking chair of new form factors and the arrival, expected, if not expected, iPhone in the small world of folding.
Anyway, Apple makes its refined design a criterion of choice and a way of highlighting, but not a main argument. And this is probably a good idea.
Because yes, it is difficult not to stop first in your look. Even if this is not Apple’s main objective, it is a differentiating marker, since Samsung sought to do it with his Galaxy S25 Edge. It is difficult not to compare with the two models that advance their delicacy. 5.6 mm thick (excluding the photo module), the iphone air prevails from nothing against its competitor (5.8 mm). It is not 0.2 mm that makes it the winner of ergonomics, is the design approach.
All good, but fornid
Apple opted for a return to roundness, with curved edges that marry the palm of the hand, where Samsung wanted to stay faithful to the style of the Galaxy S25 range and assigned the same right edges to its edge, simply thick. In hand, comfort is necessarily different and the iPhone air improves its delicacy, but especially its lightness (165 g – 20% less than the iPhone 16 Pro and 30% finer). It also owes it to the 80%recycled titanium frame, which also strengthens its robustness and its resistance to clashes, but also to the deformation of use, the adventures of the iPhone 6 are still in Apple’s memories.
Because who says finals says suspicions of fragility. Therefore, it is not without reason that the brand has integrated the ceramic shield 2 in the front and rear of the device, the improvement of the first glass protection technology that aims to be three to four times more resistant to cracks and stripes.
The weight is well distributed despite the overweight taken by this photo bar, the “tray”, which remembers the back of the Google Pixel, and this makes the use easy, despite the size of the large screen. Because the iPhone air has an adaptive, very bright and fluid 60 -inch 120 Hz OLED screen, to read, reproduce or navigate frantically. A great slab that perfectly balances everything in hand.
We quickly forget delicacy and lightness, or we get used to very quickly. Ultimately, he takes care of a “traditional” iPhone that we achieve the quality and ergonomics of iPhone’s air design. Apple’s good idea was to change the A19 Pro chip (just like that of the iPhone 17 Pro, with a little less hearts) in this tray, along with the photo module to release the place to put a larger battery.
More important productivity than the photo
Let’s talk about a design point and philosophical choice that could cool some: the photo. If the Galaxy S25 EDGE is based on the knowledge of its great photographs, it had made the decision to leave a sensor on the way to keep only two. Apple draws a line in two.
Therefore, the smartphone is equipped with a single 48 MP fusion camera with Zoom 2x (up to 10x in digital), the same main sensor as the iPhone 17. But here, there is no ultra large angle in the program. However, it is a photographic module made quite good, which offers bright and detailed shots. We will highlight the quality of the portrait mode and the feat of carrying out the operation with a single sensor and an algorithm capable of looking for depth. Even at night or with very little light, the camera defends itself quite well.
In video, it offers excellent stabilization, from recording to 4K/60 images per second and Dolby Vision, with space audio and a reduction in wind noise. Otherwise, it has the mix audio function to compensate for the sound level later. Observe the arrival of the excellent Selfie 18 MPX camera (present on the iPhone 17/17 Pro) that is enriched with the centered box of the iPad to put everyone in the field, follow it in motion in the video recording and even easily change to the landscape position while maintaining the device vertically.
In 2025, only opting for a single sensor is, in any case, a strange option that almost only … the iPhone 16 had done. But it was for financial questions and, at 1,229 euros, the iPhone air is far from these considerations. It is above all a design decision. The black points often provided to the devices that argue the delicacy are of autonomy, photo and general fragility.
For design, Apple did everything to reassure solidity and is quite validated, iPhone in your hand. To increase autonomy, the brand has chosen to leave more space for the battery up the main components and draw a cross in the Nano-SIM card drawer. The iPhone air is Esim for everyone and nothing else. A promised two hours. In any case, in standard use (email, several applications, web navigation, video, vision, photo), the iPhone air has a good day and a little more, helped by the chip, but also by the new iOS 26 embedded and its duties of adaptive battery supply.
A matter of uses and projection
The iPhone air is not a ray in the photos, but its mission is quite different. It is intended to be design and efficient to attract rather workers or large users of your iPhone for professional reasons. The grip being good, was to make sure the device is not just a pretty chassis without engine. The A19 Pro chip gives you great ease of action for all tasks, multiplies the application, video recordings, photos, games. To this is added the N1 chip for connectivity (Wi -Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, Thread) and especially the C1X modem for 5G, as well as all the Intelligence functions of Apple (photo retouching, productivity help, direct tools, writing, Siri compatible with chatgpt, etc.) and the new features provided by iOS 26.
The delicacy could have raised the worst from a thermal point of view, the titanium chassis of the last iPhone Pro tended to heat up quickly (the new ones returned to aluminum). But Apple has managed the temperature increase quite well by adding a layer of graphene that will better dissipate heat on the sides. If the iPhone air really pushes into a gourmet, you can tend to heat up, but it is still bearable. The same goes for video recordings or excess placement.
Therefore, the iPhone air is equipped as an iPhone 17 Pro in terms of powers and performance, but less gifted than an iPhone 17 in terms of the photo, all in an extremely attractive and easy to handle design. These are the three arguments that they must take into account when making their choice (in addition to deciding between black, gold, blue or white colors). The iPhone air can do everything and, above all, be forgotten in a bag, a pocket. A demonstration desired by Apple that wants to demonstrate that it is still a teacher in engineering and design with one eye on the future that we seem to tend more or less in the long term.
If you are looking for a device for everyday life, above all, the use of productivity to sports activity, including the administration of your connected home, all without being screwed, is absolutely the device you need, if you have 1,229 euros to offer you in 256 GB of storage. It is designed to keep your company for a long time and the investment will not have losses.
But if the photo is your priority or an important element of the uses of your smartphone, reflection will be required. For 100 euros more, the iPhone 17 Pro, certainly with a 6.3 -inch screen against 6.5 inches, occupies the same recipe, delicacy and less lightness, photo quality in much more. If it comes from an iPhone 16 or an earlier number, the jump can be very attractive and the possible replacement. Also with that of the Nanosim card in Esim.
Source: BFM TV
