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iPhone 17 Air USB-C Port May Have This Unusual Design Quirk
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Ok, since no one else will say it, I will. I don't need a phone with a battery so small it has to be charged twice per day.
This is the new "folding phone" everyone discovers when keeping it in their pockets and sitting down. Innovation!
As someone that works an office job, which I think a lot do, I have access to a charger 24/7. Phones charge so fast these days that it only takes a few minutes to get enough juice if you are using a wall connector. That or just charge in my car on my commute. Personally, this is the ideal phone for me: good size, light weight, 120hz (rumored). The only thing pushing me towards a pro iphone now is 120hz. All I see is judder with 60hz scrolling now that I have adjusted to a higher refresh rate.
These dummy models are getting more and more accurate. If you look closely, you can see that it's already bent lol.
Lightning doesn’t have enough pins to do 4k@60Hz DisplayPort, Thunderbolt or even full USB 3. It was at the end of its life anyway. It may be OK for the target users of the iPhone Air - but not for iPad Pros or top-end iPhones targeted at media creation, and ending up with different connectors across the iDevice range (not to mention Macs) would be stupid.
The Lightning plug might be thin but the socket has to have space for contacts above or below the plug, whereas USB-C keeps everything inside the shield of the plug. Any hypothetical Lightning 2 would need a true double-sided connector for the extra pins, so the socket would need contacts above and below the plug - so there’s no guarantee that the Lightning socket would take up less space than USB C. Then there’s the question of whether you can fit 2-3 times as many wires inside a Lightning plug without making it any thicker (and breaking backward compatibility).
The EU didn’t design USB-C - it was the USB-IF of which Apple is an influential member. Apple engineers played a major role in designing USB-C. Apple enthusiastically pushed USB-C (arguably, prematurely) on the Mac. If it was technically possible to make the new USB-C connector backwards-compatible with Lightning then Apple had every opportunity to make that happen.
Apple Designed USB-C as well. 18 out of the 79 USB C engineers and designers were from Apple.
So they have to do "compromises" to get the phone even thinner and it will still be very expensive? What about a step in the other direction? A much thicker phone with much less compromises.
It isn't. They could have done that if they wanted too.
Meanwhile, the battery is near 50% by the time you board a flight, praying that it'll last all the way to the hotel.
No, nobody would have jumped on that bandwagon. No major player would have wanted to be part of an ecosystem that is fully in Apples control where Apple demands you to produce products to their specifications. Apple would probably not have wanted that in the first place either.
Not to mention that such a move would have put pressure on Apple to actually develop Lightning further which in its turn would probably have resulted in a connector that is much larger than the Lightning that we know so it could accommodate the massive power and data requirements that USB-C supports today. People seem to be a bit quick to forget that Lightning was an outdated spec even when USB-C launched, never mind now nearly 10 years later.
Only amateurs travel without a small power bank in their bag; even a 10K MagSafe is enough for most flights, and you can usually charge with a cable while on the plane. I see people clustered around the charging stations at their gate and I chuckle.
yeah, look at these peasants without lots of additional gear to make the phone lasts a decent amount of time without charging.
Oppo Fold is already at 4.21mm when open, so I feel like Apple should match that with a phone that will launch almost 2 years after Oppo launched theirs.
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Do I really have to count every part of a trip that doesn't allow charing while travelling?
That camera bump is cringingly ugly.
Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but it kinda looks like a hammer-shark.
Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but it kinda looks like a hammer-shark.
I think you are actually making my point for me haha. Outlets/chargers are everywhere. Hell even ubers! Generally the places where I don't have access to power, I am not on my phone. It's like people complaining about the apple watch battery life. Can you not throw it on a charger either when you sleep or if you sleep track when you first wake up?