iPhone Air iPhone Air Lack of Popularity

[Christopher Kim]

I got my iPhone Air Cloud White on Fri morning (in-store pickup), coming from a 15PM (and 13 Pro, 12 Pro and X before that). Absolutely love it so far - it fit my use case perfectly, as someone where 95% of my photos were 1x/2x main lens, I use my AirPods Pro for basically all listening (or via Sonos at home), and I wasn't a power user so felt I could easily deal with the lower battery life.

The screen is beautiful - I think the 6.5" is the goldilocks size for me. The 15 PM (my first plus-sized phone) was just a little too big (eg. one-handed typing was doable but difficult). And having 120hz Promotion was a must (without it, would've been a dealbreaker).

Re: battery life - I've felt it absolutely punches above its weight on what my expectations were. Over the last 6 days (Fri, Sat-Sun weekend, and then Mon - Tues work-week), I've basically started the morning with 100% and finished at night with ~40-50%.

So right now, it's absolutely more than enough for my needs. Additionally for me, at the stage of life (in my 40s, with adolescent kids), I'm trying to be more present in daily life and use my phone less. I don't enable always-on display (I didn't on my 15 PM either) given the same energy - I want to use my phone if/when I want, but be more intentional about using it less. Even more so, feel like the Air was the ideal phone for me.

 

[G5isAlive]

We both have made our points and agree to disagree.
(including about the “condescending remarks” - just read your own post here, that’s littered with them).

Bye.

I disagree …😂

 

[Apple_Robert]

I got my iPhone Air Cloud White on Fri morning (in-store pickup), coming from a 15PM (and 13 Pro, 12 Pro and X before that). Absolutely love it so far - it fit my use case perfectly, as someone where 95% of my photos were 1x/2x main lens, I use my AirPods Pro for basically all listening (or via Sonos at home), and I wasn't a power user so felt I could easily deal with the lower battery life.

The screen is beautiful - I think the 6.5" is the goldilocks size for me. The 15 PM (my first plus-sized phone) was just a little too big (eg. one-handed typing was doable but difficult). And having 120hz Promotion was a must (without it, would've been a dealbreaker).

Re: battery life - I've felt it absolutely punches above its weight on what my expectations were. Over the last 6 days (Fri, Sat-Sun weekend, and then Mon - Tues work-week), I've basically started the morning with 100% and finished at night with ~40-50%.

So right now, it's absolutely more than enough for my needs. Additionally for me, at the stage of life (in my 40s, with adolescent kids), I'm trying to be more present in daily life and use my phone less. I don't enable always-on display (I didn't on my 15 PM either) given the same energy - I want to use my phone if/when I want, but be more intentional about using it less. Even more so, feel like the Air was the ideal phone for me.

Congrats on seeing the need to be "more in the moment." I would like to see more people embrace that kind of mentality.

 

[Macalway]

This is easily explained: boring is making a comeback. Had to happen sooner or later, and ya know? good for them. Talent and beauty are overrated, imo. But being selfish, I couldn't bring myself to.. suffer. Sorry.

 

[teh_hunterer]

I don’t need to “google” that stuff. I can just consult Apple’s in-store offerings:

• The iPhone Air is the only iPhone that Apple (the phone’s manufacturer) sells a first-party battery pack for.
• And that battery pack lists only the iPhone Air as being compatible.

And yes, I know that there may be third-party battery packs. Apple could have well left it to third parties providing battery packs for the Air. But they for some reason didn’t - they felt to do their own.

So my point still stands: it looks a bit awkward. As if the manufacturer doesn’t quite trust its battery life is competitive.

I didn't get that impression. I've got the Air and I'm really not feeling any difference to my 15PM. It's a total non-issue.

Knowing that, the idea seems to be if you don't need thick phone battery 95% of the time, don't carry a thick phone 95% of the time. For that 5%, slap the battery on.

People claiming that the fact Apple is selling the battery just for the Air is some kind of gotcha seem a little funny to me.