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The iPhone Air is Apple's thinnest phone yet

The worst kept secret of 2025 is official. At its Awe Dropping event on Tuesday, Apple announced the iPhone 17 Air, its thinnest iPhone to date.

Since then, newer iPhones have been thicker to accommodate larger batteries, Face ID, multi-camera arrays and other components. Additionally, the Air is encased in the company's Ceramic Shield material, which Apple says is now 3x more scratch resistant than previous iterations. Tim Millet, vice president of platform architecture at Apple, said the new chip, with its six-core CPU, is the fastest smartphone processor on the market.

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