YOGYAKARTA Apple recently introduced the iPhone 17 Air as a model in the iPhone 17 family. The company offers the thinst state-of-the-art devices in iPhone history, which is 5.64 mm thin. Even though it comes with modern design and advanced technology, this phone does not mean without defects. There are still some iPhone Air shortages that you need to know before buying the device.

So what are the lack of iPhone Air? Compiled from various sources, see the full information below.

The first iPhone Air shortage is having a small battery capacity. On iPhone Air, Apple accounts for batteries with a capacity of 3,149 mAh. This capacity is the smallest among the iPhone 17 series.

In comparison, the basic model of the iPhone 17 is planted with a battery with a capacity of 3,692 mAH. While the Pro Max variant, the battery capacity is greater, namely 4,832 mAh, and 5,088mAH for the eSIM model only.

This has an impact on the resilience of the iPhone Air battery. With a capacity of 3,149 mAh, the iPhone air can only last about 40 hours, shorter than the regular iPhone 17 (41 hours) and Pro Max (53 hours).

In addition, iPhone Air charging is also slower. Users need 30 minutes to charge 50 percent of the battery. This duration is 10 minutes longer than the brothers.

In addition to batteries, the iPhone Air screen size is also smaller with its siblings. Apple equipped the iPhone Air with a 6.5-inch screen. While on the iPhone 17 Pro Mx, the screen size reaches 6.9 pieces. The iPhone Air screen is only bigger than the standard iPhone 17 (6.3 inches).

The cut in the size of the screen on the iPhone water is associated with the titanium frame. This premium material is indeed famous for its resilience. With this thin body, the size of the big screen has the potential to make the body more fragile.

Apple equips the iPhone Air with the A19 Pro chipset. However, if examined more deeply, there is a difference with the A19 Pro chipset on the iPhone 17 Pro Max.

In the iPhone Air, the A19 Pro chipset only has 5 cores in the GPU. While the Pro Max series has 6 cores.

Despite its status as a flagship smartphone, Apple only provides an iPhone Air with a back camera of 48 MP. The sensors used are also smaller than the Pro series.

Not only that, the video recording feature on this device is also limited to 4K 60fps, without the support of high-end features such as ProRes RAW Apple Log2, and LiDAR.

The iPhone has a zoom option with an enlargement of up to 2x. However, this device is not equipped with a special telephoto lens. Haslnya, the quality of the photo while zooming remains less than the Pro variant.

In addition, Apple has also removed the ultrawide feature. This makes it difficult for users to take wide angle pictures.

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