A new thin iPhone was the star of Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event aired online Tuesday.
The new Air, at 5.6 millimeters thick, is the thinnest iPhone Apple has ever produced. “It’s unlike anything you’ve ever held before, and it’s packed with features,” John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, said at the event.
Those features include a 6.5-inch display, Apple’s latest A19 Pro processor, a 48 megapixel rear camera, and front-camera support for “Center Stage,” which keeps subjects centered on the screen at all times.
With the A19 Pro chip, Apple is bringing MacBook levels of compute to the iPhone, Ternus said.
“The Air is just as striking in person as it appears in the event video, if not more,” said Anshel Sag, senior analyst for mobility, 5G and XR at Moor Insights & Strategy, a technology analyst and advisory firm based in Austin, Texas.
