And just like that, the iPhone Air 2 looks like a worse deal than the original iPhone Air

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PhoneArena
PhoneArena
Phonearena team
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• 12h ago

The iPhone Air 2 is Schrödinger's phone: it's both very cool and very… uncool. That's because there are still many months left until it materializes. That's expected to happen in the first half of 2027. With it, the vanilla flagship iPhone 18 is also scheduled to be unveiled. And the budget-friendly iPhone 18e, the model that'll prove once again that Apple's concept of budget-friendly is very… flexible. Back to the iPhone Air 2, though. As the announcement date approaches, we're getting more...

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RocketDoc
RocketDoc
Arena Apprentice
• 12h ago

I’m not the target market for this phone, but I use an ultrawide lens more than a standard, and telephoto almost never. If I don’t want to haul one of my micro 4/3 cameras on a hike, then I want an ultrawide lens on the phone.

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GJ...
GJ...
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• 7h ago

Couldn’t agree more.. Well said I almost totally agree . I tried the iPhone Air but now using an 18 pro. A telephoto lens would make more sense. My wife is currently using the Air and I can’t imagine her using an ultra wide, but a telephoto yes . People who care about the “bijou” side of the phone will definitely have a use for a telephoto to zoom in on billboards, buildings etc. Besides you can somewhat compensate for the lack of an ultra wide by taking a video/panorama . Totally wasted opportunity in my opinion. The telephoto would also allow the Air to differentiate itself from the base model and clock in more customers.

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Kudo_Ume_Farms
Kudo_Ume_Farms
Arena Apprentice
• 2h ago

Having used the Air for over a year, I am very impressed.

Hoping Air 2 will continue forward success.


Since I don't use any of the Pro features, no camera use, no pro motion stuff, etc...

Air has been perfect for me after decades of thick slab phones.


BTW: Duo I just got is like 2 Airs sandwiched together and I like it.

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cripton805
cripton805
Arena Master
• 1h ago

If Apple doesn't add a second camera. It will be a difficult mistake to come back from.


My iPhone 13 takes better pictures than my iPhone Air. I like the iPhone Air and it's not a deal breaker, but I can see that for a lot of people it is. I don't take too many pictures and I still find the lack of an ultra wide & telephoto highly annoying when I need it.

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Brewski
Brewski
Arena Master
• 9m ago

I truly do not understand this sentiment:

"it's going to be an ultra-wide snapper, not a telephoto. What a waste of opportunity."


90% of the time, when I open my camera, the first thing I do is zoom out to 0.6x because I need to capture everything in front of me, and it is often close to me like kids, pets, or something interesting. Ultra-wide is my default lens.


0.01% do I use the telephoto/zoom lens because why would I want to take a picture of something very far away from me? Every once in a while I might zoom in to 2x, but even 3x is too extreme to take a picture with a phone. When this whole 10x, 20x or 50x, craze started, I thought oh that's a cool feature but I don't use it much. For some reason it has become an obsession now with zooming in on stuff at 100x. I don't get it.

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Brewski
Brewski
Arena Master
• 8m ago
↵RocketDoc said:

I’m not the target market for this phone, but I use an ultrawide lens more than a standard, and telephoto almost never. If I don’t want to haul one of my micro 4/3 cameras on a hike, then I want an ultrawide lens on the phone.

Same. Ultra-wide> telephoto.

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Brewski
Brewski
Arena Master
• 6m ago
↵GJ... said:

Couldn’t agree more.. Well said I almost totally agree . I tried the iPhone Air but now using an 18 pro. A telephoto lens would make more sense. My wife is currently using the Air and I can’t imagine her using an ultra wide, but a telephoto yes . People who care about the “bijou” side of the phone will definitely have a use for a telephoto to zoom in on billboards, buildings etc. Besides you can somewhat compensate for the lack of an ultra wide by taking a video/panorama . Totally wasted opportunity in my opinion. The telephoto would also allow the Air to differentiate itself from the base model and clock in more customers.

Trying to understand the use-cases here, why is a telephoto more important to you/your wife than an Ultra-wide?

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