Apple had a lot of announcements this week , but arguably none was bigger (and paradoxically thinner) than the iPhone Air . For one, there’s the fact that this is Apple’s first-ever phone with “Air” branding, marking a rare new category of iPhone, both present and future. Then, there’s the fact that the iPhone Air is very slim—5.64mm to be exact. Gizmodo’s Senior Editor, Consumer Tech, Raymond Wong, got some hands-on time with the iPhone Air , and he says it feels as thin as it looks—even thinner than Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge , to be exact. Think Ozempic, but for iPhones.

But as exciting as all of that is, it’s not the newness or even the thinness that turned my head—it’s what the iPhone Air says about the future. And to see that, you have to look at what’s going on inside.

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