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Geeky Gadgets
03-07-2025
- Geeky Gadgets
Apple's iPhone Air
Apple's rumored iPhone Air will be a smartphone that emphasizes minimalism, usability, and aesthetics. With its ultra-thin 5.5mm profile, a single 48MP camera, and a focus on streamlined functionality, the iPhone Air is designed for users who value simplicity over technical complexity. Replacing the Plus model, this new addition to Apple's lineup targets mainstream consumers who seek a balance between style and practicality. The video below from FPT gives us more details on what to expect from the new iPhone Air. Watch this video on YouTube. Ultra-Thin Design: A Fusion of Form and Function At just 5.5mm thick, the iPhone Air is one of the slimmest smartphones available today. Its minimalist design eliminates unnecessary elements, focusing on clean lines and a lightweight build. This design approach caters to users who appreciate sleek, modern aesthetics while prioritizing portability. By opting for a single 48MP rear camera instead of a multi-lens setup, Apple reinforces the philosophy that less can be more. This decision appeals to those who prefer simplicity without sacrificing essential functionality, offering a device that is both visually appealing and practical. Enhanced Display: Elevating Everyday Interactions The iPhone Air features a 6.6-inch display with a 120Hz refresh rate, delivering a smoother and more responsive user experience compared to standard 60Hz screens. This high refresh rate ensures fluid scrolling, seamless touch interactions, and an overall enhanced visual experience. Whether you're browsing the web, streaming videos, or gaming, the display provides vivid colors and sharp clarity, making everyday tasks more enjoyable and immersive. Performance Powered by the A19 Chip and 12GB RAM Equipped with Apple's A19 chip and 12GB of RAM, the iPhone Air is designed for speed and efficiency. This powerful combination enables the device to handle demanding tasks such as multitasking, gaming, and running resource-intensive applications with ease. The A19 chip is engineered for energy efficiency, a critical feature given the device's ultra-thin design. Additionally, the integration of computational photography enhances the single 48MP camera, allowing it to produce high-quality images comparable to multi-camera systems. This ensures that users can enjoy top-tier performance without compromising on battery life or design. Battery Life: Balancing Innovation and Efficiency Creating an ultra-thin smartphone often presents challenges in maintaining battery life. Apple addresses this with silicon anode battery technology, which offers higher energy density compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries. Combined with the energy-efficient A19 chip and an Apple-designed modem, the iPhone Air optimizes battery performance while maintaining its slim profile. Although the smaller battery size may raise concerns, these innovations aim to deliver a reliable and consistent user experience, making sure that the device meets the demands of daily use. Camera Simplicity with Advanced Features The iPhone Air's single 48MP camera reflects Apple's commitment to simplicity and functionality. Using computational photography, the camera captures detailed and vibrant images in various lighting conditions. Enhanced features such as low-light performance, portrait mode, and HDR ensure professional-quality photos without the need for multiple lenses. This streamlined camera setup aligns with the device's minimalist design, making it an ideal choice for everyday photography enthusiasts who value ease of use and high-quality results. Targeting a Broader Audience Replacing the Plus model, the iPhone Air is positioned as a more affordable alternative to Apple's Pro lineup. It is tailored for users who prioritize design, usability, and practicality over advanced technical specifications. By offering a premium look and feel at a competitive price point, the iPhone Air appeals to a broad audience, including those who value simplicity and status in their devices. This strategic positioning allows Apple to cater to a growing segment of consumers seeking functionality without unnecessary complexity, making the iPhone Air a versatile option for a wide range of users. Shaping the Future of Smartphones The iPhone Air represents a shift in Apple's product strategy, emphasizing streamlined features and minimalist design. This approach could influence future smartphone trends, encouraging manufacturers to focus on creating devices that are simpler and more user-friendly. By prioritizing efficiency and practicality, Apple is addressing consumer demand while setting a new benchmark for the mainstream smartphone market. If successful, the iPhone Air could pave the way for a new era of smartphones that balance innovation with simplicity, reshaping consumer expectations in the process. Advance your skills in Ultra-thin smartphone design by reading more of our detailed content. Source & Image Credit: fpt. Filed Under: Apple, Apple iPhone, Top News Latest Geeky Gadgets Deals Disclosure: Some of our articles include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, Geeky Gadgets may earn an affiliate commission. Learn about our Disclosure Policy.
Axios
23-06-2025
- Business
- Axios
Apple is under pressure to deliver a hit iPhone
Disappointment in Apple's AI progress could put pressure on the company to deliver more compelling hardware. Why it matters: The iPhone is critical to Apple's business, but also crucial for component makers and wireless carriers. Driving the news: Apple previewed iOS 26, the software that will power the next iPhone at its June developer conference. The signature features will be mostly cosmetic and unlikely to drive most consumers to upgrade. Meanwhile, the Apple Intelligence features it did introduce were modest and the Siri overhaul promised last year has been delayed. Several analysts this year have cut their iPhone sales forecasts, citing the delay. The big picture: Apple also faces a variety of headwinds including growing economic uncertainty, the potential of higher tariffs and the industrywide trend of people holding on to their phones longer. Between the lines: A new thinner iPhone Air could arrive this year, a move that might convince those on the fence about upgrading. Apple is also expected to make the usual improvements to the entire line, including faster chips and improved cameras on the front and rear. Yes, but: Even good hardware won't solve Apple's AI issues. In a column published Sunday, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggests Apple will have to move beyond its "comfort zone" of small acquisitions to meaningfully improve its position. Apple has reportedly considered a range of acquisitions to boost its efforts, including Perplexity. It also held informal talks with Thinking Machines Lab, the startup run by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, Bloomberg reported. What they're saying: Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi said hardware improvements are always key to driving upgrades and that probably would have been true even if Apple had made more meaningful improvements to Apple Intelligence. "For Apple, hardware always matters," Milanesi told Axios. "Getting people to upgrade remains critical for them, both for Apple Intelligence adoption and also for services adoption." What we're watching: The rectangular iPhone we know and love might not be the go-to form factor of the future.
Man of Many
10-06-2025
- Man of Many
Here's All the Best Stuff from Apple's 2025 WWDC Event
By Dean Blake - News Published: 10 June 2025 Share Copy Link Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. We're only one day into Apple's yearly software deep-dive, more literally known as its World Wide Developer Conference, and we've already got a bunch of fantastic improvements coming to every device the company makes. While we're not getting a look at any new hardware (you'll have to wait for the company's events later in the year for a look at the rumoured iPhone Air), we got a pretty solid software roadmap showcasing the direction the business, and our devices, are headed in. While there are still a few days of announcements to come, and we'll definitely be updating this as new things are shown, here's everything we thought looked particularly exciting from the 2025 WWDC event. 1. 'Liquid Glass' is Apple's New Unified Design Language If there's anything that regularly sets Apple's devices apart from the competition, it's their user experience and the incredible continuity between each product. Well, starting later this year, they're all going to be brought even closer together—with iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS all set to share a unified user-facing design language. What does this mean? It means all Apple products will look similar at an OS level, feel similar to use, and will feature many of the same features to make moving between them even more seamless than it already is. All of Apple's devices will now feature a sort-of-glass look that will respond to a user's touch and input, as well as create more opportunities for context sensitive menus – which will now appear where you're pressing, rather than at the bottom of the screen. Additionally, several key apps have been simplified to be more easily used in the contexts they most frequently are: such as the 'camera' app showing only 'photo' and 'video' options initially for most users, and giving more specific options through gestures. While 'Liquid Glass' is certainly a new marketing term, in a similar way to how 'Retina Display' is really just Apple's version of a high resolution, high ppi display, it is impressive how fluid and adaptable it is in motion: at least as far as we've seen so far. The new design language, 'Liquid Glass' is based on the experience of visionOS, and also see Apple's various OS' referred to by release year, moving forward: iOS18 will upgrade to iOS26, rather than iOS19, whereas visionOS2 will jump to visionOS26 for continuity's sake. A Look at the New Menu Bar for iPadOS | Image: Apple 2. iPad becomes a Mac (kind of) Arguably the star of the entire show, iPadOS26's improvement to how the device tackles multitasking is a huge step forward, and turns the iPad into a bit of a Mac-lite. You'll soon be able to fluidly resize your apps into windows, like on a Mac, and can reorient them around the screen as you want. Plus, the addition of a menu bar at the top of the display provides the kind of contextual options for each app you're using that you'd be familiar with if you've used macOS for any amount of time. Since display space is a bit more limited on iPad, the menu is hidden by default, but hovering over the top of the screen displays a set of menu items you can select depending on the active window. You'll still be restricted from using Mac-only apps, of course, but it'll be far easier to use an iPad as a daily laptop replacement if that's how you prefer to work (or play). If you just want to keep using your tablet as a tablet, though, you can do just that: you're not forced into using the iPad like a laptop, but the option is there and now better than ever. Apple's Mac Mini | Image: Apple 3. Gaming Gets a Glow Up Gaming on the Mac as always felt like the red-headed step-child of the ecosystem, with Apple often giving token improvements to its systems to make them better gaming devices without any real incentives for developers to actually port their games to Mac. According to Steam's May 2025 hardware survey, only around 1.85 per cent of its players use a Mac, with most games not supporting Mac out of the box. It's a different story on iOS, of course, with the App Store delivering literally thousands of games, with Apple itself claiming that 500,000,000 people play games on their iPhones. How is Apple planning on bridging the gap between these platforms? The new Games app. Essentially, the app will serve as both an evolution of Apple's Game Centre and a discovery platform, learning what kind of games its user likes and recommending new stuff to check out, as well as, no doubt, funnelling them toward an Apple Arcade subscription. One thing that looks interesting about the Games app, though, is the new 'games overlay' feature on Mac. It essentially looks to serve a similar function to the context menus we've seen popping up on hardware such as the Nintendo Switch and Valve's own Steam Deck, but delivering information specific to the Mac you're using. It's a nice next step for game discoverability on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, but I still don't personally see many developers itching to dive into porting their games. Maybe that's where improvements to the business' Game Porting Tool Kit can make some headway, and the fact that visionOS will soon have support for Sony's PlayStation VR2 Sense Controllers. Apple Intelligence Gets An Upgrade | Image: Apple 4. Apple Intelligence Gets Some Love Look, we're all well aware of the currently pretty disappointing state of consumer AI—and Apple Intelligence is among the most disappointing. While it was billed as the big idea of Apple's most recent product launches, most of the features advertised just never quite materialised, and the company has been wrapped on the knuckles for what a lot of people see as false advertisements. Oops. Well, strap in because Apple Intelligence is back on the billboard, only with much more realistic features in place. For one, your Apple device will soon be able to translate audio from users speaking other languages for you through text on the Messages app, through audio in the Phone app, or over video in FaceTime. iPhone users will be able to use visual intelligence to search anything they're viewing across any app—if its on your screen, you can search it. It means you'll be able to point your camera at something and ask for details, narrow in on something you're shopping for to learn more about, or add events you're looking at to your calendar, for example. One thing we'll definitely be diving into is the upgraded Shortcuts, which can be used to effectively supercharge how productive you are with your Mac device, as long as you're willing to put the time in to learn the… shortcuts. Using Apple Intelligence's models (both on device and on the cloud), you'll be able to quickly and effectively create new shortcuts to make using your device even more seamless, such as a shortcut to create a ChatGPT-generated image of something you've highlighted, or take some saved audio and create a detailed set of notes from it. These are pretty helpful upgrades to the devices you're already using, rather than showing off features that are tied to hardware upgrades, which we're a big fan of.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Market's New Hope for Apple (AAPL) ‘Super Cycle' After AI Dissappointment: iPhone Air
CNBC's Steve Kovach talked about a new Loop Capital take on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) which says tariffs could bode well for the company. Kovach said he does not 'buy' Loop's argument but highlighted another interesting element in their report: 'Let me tell you what is new and notable in this report here. Loop is saying they're increasing their expectations for the iPhone Air. Now this is that super thin model of the iPhone that's rumored to be coming this fall. Loop actually nearly doubled iPhone Air build estimates from 16 million to 33 million by the end of the year. That would be about 30% of all iPhone 17 models expected to be produced this year. And we're going to be talking a lot about this after Apple whiffed on artificial intelligence year and missed out on a super cycle surge in iPhone sales. The real question is: can Apple make cool smartphones again? We haven't really seen any major design changes since 2020 super cycle. From AI, of course, never happened, but design changes are actually proven to spur super cycles.' A wide view of an Apple store, showing the range of products the company offers. Sands Capital Select Growth Fund stated the following regarding Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its Q1 2025 investor letter: 'We exited Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in March to fund what we view as compelling additions to existing holdings during the market selloff and to strengthen our cash position for future opportunities. Apple's inclusion in Select Growth was intended to provide stability to the portfolio. However, in the current market environment, we see greater upside potential in other businesses and view cash as a more effective tool for downside protection and opportunistic deployment. We remain positive on the potential for shorter replacement cycles for computers and mobile devices driven by Apple Intelligence. That said, the delayed rollout of AI features—and Apple's acknowledgment that some may be indefinitely postponed—could limit its ability to exceed earnings expectations. Apple remains a leading global technology business with a vast hardware and software ecosystem, strong customer lock-in, and powerful network effects. We will continue to monitor its progress and its potential fit within the Select Growth portfolio.' READ NEXT: and . Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Market's New Hope for Apple (AAPL) ‘Super Cycle' After AI Dissappointment: iPhone Air
CNBC's Steve Kovach talked about a new Loop Capital take on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) which says tariffs could bode well for the company. Kovach said he does not 'buy' Loop's argument but highlighted another interesting element in their report: 'Let me tell you what is new and notable in this report here. Loop is saying they're increasing their expectations for the iPhone Air. Now this is that super thin model of the iPhone that's rumored to be coming this fall. Loop actually nearly doubled iPhone Air build estimates from 16 million to 33 million by the end of the year. That would be about 30% of all iPhone 17 models expected to be produced this year. And we're going to be talking a lot about this after Apple whiffed on artificial intelligence year and missed out on a super cycle surge in iPhone sales. The real question is: can Apple make cool smartphones again? We haven't really seen any major design changes since 2020 super cycle. From AI, of course, never happened, but design changes are actually proven to spur super cycles.' A wide view of an Apple store, showing the range of products the company offers. Sands Capital Select Growth Fund stated the following regarding Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its Q1 2025 investor letter: 'We exited Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in March to fund what we view as compelling additions to existing holdings during the market selloff and to strengthen our cash position for future opportunities. Apple's inclusion in Select Growth was intended to provide stability to the portfolio. However, in the current market environment, we see greater upside potential in other businesses and view cash as a more effective tool for downside protection and opportunistic deployment. We remain positive on the potential for shorter replacement cycles for computers and mobile devices driven by Apple Intelligence. That said, the delayed rollout of AI features—and Apple's acknowledgment that some may be indefinitely postponed—could limit its ability to exceed earnings expectations. Apple remains a leading global technology business with a vast hardware and software ecosystem, strong customer lock-in, and powerful network effects. We will continue to monitor its progress and its potential fit within the Select Growth portfolio.' READ NEXT: and . Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
