Apple on Tuesday unveiled its new iPhone 17 lineup, including the new, super-thin iPhone Air – its first major redesign in years.
The sleek, slim device has a “space grade” titanium frame and is just 5.6 millimeters thick, available in white, gold, black and sky blue colors.
Yet it’s more durable than previous iPhones, according to Apple, and has a new, second-generation chip that gives it three times the GPU computing power as last year’s phones.
“Our intention was to make an iPhone that feels like a piece of the future, powerful, yet so thin and light it seems to disappear in your hands,” an Apple presenter said at the company’s California headquarters.
But shares in Apple fell 1.4% by approximately 2:15 p.m. ET. Analysts had largely expected Apple to debut a thinner iPhone, and the company has gotten flack for a lack of innovative, exciting new launches.
The Air has a “center stage front camera” with a large front camera sensor, almost twice the size of the previous front camera.
That tweak comes after iPhone users snapped a whopping 500 billion selfies last year, according to Apple.
Apple also boasted about the Air’s “amazing all-day battery life,” though it was short on details.
