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Apple had many announcements this weekBut nobody was greater (and paradoxically thinner) than that iPhone air. On the one hand, there is the fact that this is Apple’s first telephone with the “Air” branding and a rare new category of the iPhone, both present and future. Then there is the fact that the iPhone air is very Slim – 5.64 mm to be precise. The senior editor of Gizmodo, Consumer Tech, Raymond Wong, received some practical time with the iPhone airAnd he says it feels as thin as it looks – also thinner than Samsung Galaxy S25 Edgeto be exact. Think of Ozempic, but for iPhones.
But as exciting as it is, it is not the novelty or even the thinness that turned my head – it is what the iPhone Air says about the future. And to see that, you have to see what’s going on inside.
This is a high signal of the coming future.
The entire computer for the context. Modems, antennas, everything that has to be calculated for the iPhone air in the camera flashing.
The rest of the phone is a screen and battery.
My thoughts.
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– Linus Ekenstam (@linusekenstam) September 10, 2025
If you have respected with X, you may have seen this picture in your feed. This is the interior of the iPhone air that you look at and it is important for one reason. Do you see all the stuff at the top? This is basically the whole phone – or at least the entire computing power. Apple has basically managed to fill everything that makes the iPhone into an iPhone (camera and calculation) in a tiny section on the top of the chassis. The rest of the phone? A large and very thin battery. It is really a performance of the engineering system, but also a template for what Apple could do next.
There are many effects on putting a powerful computer in such a small room, but the one who fascinates me the most Ar -glasses. Why Arla glasses special? Well, they are a perfect case in which the miniaturization of a bright new future stands in the way. It is not the case that we (theoretically) do not have the technology to get AR glasses up and running -we can insert screens into glasses display, apps and user interfaces and cameramousers are smaller than ever -but it is all in a form factor that people are ready and willing to carry their faces that throw in a wrench. We have to make things smaller when we think bigger. Write down this, Apple Marketing.
It happens exactly what the iPhone Air does. There is a powerful computer in a room that used to feel too tight. And what inspires me even more about miniaturization within the iPhone Air is the fact that Apple has been developing AR glasses for a long time.
In February, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman revised previous claims This Apple has no longer developed the development of AR glasses and instead killed a “Stopgap product” with which it would have competed Metas Ray-Ban smart glasses. For me that says that Apple is not interested in AR, but only that it is waiting until it has a product that actually moves the needle – perhaps an AR glasses that resemble normal glasses in size and weight, but still perform apps and act as secondary screens for messaging, calls and marine. You know the ideal couple of Smart glasses. With the miniaturization of iPhones and the computer in them, it is as if it were a step closer to this goal, although there are other concerns to make a device of this caliber that does not necessarily appeal to the iPhone Air.
One of these hurdles is the battery. Apple has done a good job (at least on paper) by the iPhone air battery is suitable for most people, and claimed that it takes “all day”, which in this case means about 27 hours offline video and 22 hours of streaming. Apart from that, it was still bothered to publish the iPhone Air next to A Magsafe -Akku This extends the battery of the phone. Maybe I read too much in that, but it seems to me that Apple could be something ahead. The same problem could also extend to AR glasses.
Even if Apple could integrate an entire computer into light glasses, the execution of everything would still have to be very efficient, especially if a screen with high brightness, audio functions and the ability to carry out apps is available inside. All the stuff eats battery – and quickly. It is all to mean that shrinking a computer is huge, but the damn thing is equally important. Despite this potentially unresolved puzzle part, it is difficult to believe that Apple could lead it … at some point.
A few years ago we would have looked at the idea of an iPhone air and said: “Under no circumstances”. It is not durable enough; There is not enough battery; Moores law is dead; Yadda, Yadda. But here it is. An iPhone that is thin and bright and even has Apple’s most powerful A19 Pro -chip. If I were a betting man, I would bet that Apple is already looking for ways to improve this ante, improve the battery life, cameras and its air as capable as the basic model -iPhone. And who should I bet against you at this point? Name me crazy, but when the iPhone air is an indication of indication, my money is on an Apple AR glasses that do everything -and maybe earlier than you think.
