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The iPhone 17 Air looks wonderful – but that’s not why Apple is making it


Yesterday gave us our best look yet at the upcoming iPhone 17 Air, in the form of a highly realistic...

I’m also of the view that the phone won’t look quite so impressive once owners have done what 99% of them are going to do – add the thickness of a case – so for me the key USP of the device is diluted within seconds of taking it out of the box. I won’t be buying one, but I’ll certainly be casting admiring glances in its direction, and visiting an Apple store to give one the maximum permitted number of appreciative strokes before security intervenes. I do think the iPhone 17 Air represents another step in Apple’s continued evolution toward that vision of the single slab of glass, and I fully expect the company to be attempting to slim down the rest of the line-up as much as possible over time without compromising on specs.

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