This is the feeling of this school year. This Tuesday, September 9, during its Keynote “Awe Dropping” Apple presented “A brand new iPhone” in the words of Tim Cook. With the iPhone Air (not 17 air as rumors suggested) the apple brand is focusing on finesse and aesthetics.
This desire to put the design forward makes the iPhone air a target. Indeed, the laws of physics are uncompromising. The more a smartphone is fine, the smaller its battery. CQFD. But Apple has an answer to everything. The Cupertino firm has found a double parade. She has the only disadvantage of being … costly.
First, there is the smartphone. A concentrate of know-how technology. All for… € 1229. The price of the iPhone 16 Pro when it was released last year. It’s expensive, very expensive, but it is the price of excellence. Because despite its only 5.6 millimeters thick (compared to more than 8 for traditional iPhone) The iPhone Air is a marathonian.
How did Apple succeed?
To understand how Technically Apple has managed such a sleight of hand, you have to take a closer look at the iPhone Air components. The Cupertino firm has integrated two very important chips: N1 and C1X. They are respectively in charge of wireless networks (WiFi and Bluetooth) and 5G.
Looking further, it is the whole iPhone Air that was thought of around this question of autonomy. Apple has integrated a software solution based on AI Capable of “preserving the battery of your iPhone for moments that really matter”. By taking into account your habits, the phone would thus be able to adapt its energy consumption.
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Thanks to these new features, Apple announces an autonomy of 27 hours in “video reading”. For comparison, the iPhone 15 launched two years ago could not exceed 20 hours. So it’s already very good, but Tim Cook knows, it will not be enough to satisfy all users. Apple’s CEO had to prepare a solution, even before launching his smartphone.
An external battery
So Apple had an idea. Why not launch an external battery, also refined and magnetized on the phone thanks to Magsafe for extend the autonomy of the iPhone Air. This is how the new Apple Magsafe battery was born. It is sold at a price of 115 euros.
But thanks to it, Apple promises more than 40 hours of autonomy on the iPhone Air. With such figures, the phone would exceed the iPhone 17 Pro Max and its 39 hours of autonomy. It remains to be seen whether Apple’s promises will be checked during the first tests.
