The main novelty that announced Apple In your event AWE Dropping This week was the arrival of a new member to the family of iPhone products. He iPhone Air -Yes, finally it has not been called iPhone 17 Air- it is an ultrafino, The thinner iPhone that Apple has made so far. But its thickness 5.6 mm has aroused doubts about the durability of the device that John TernusApple hardware engineering manager, and Greg ‘Joz’ Joswiakworld marketing manager, they wanted to solve in an interview with the technological environment Tom’s Guide.
According to Apple, the iPhone Air is as thin as resistant thanks to its grade 5 titanium chassis combined with Ceramic Shield on the back and the new Ceramic Shield 2 protecting the screen. Some of the components, such as cameras, speaker and chip A19 PROthey are housed in the rear photography module to be able to achieve that ultrafine design, occupying the battery most of the remaining space in the mobile body.
At one point, the interviewers mentioned the iPhone 6/6 Plus and the famous controversy of ‘Bless’. This took place in 2014with the finest iPhone that Apple has designed before the AIR (6.9 mm the iPhone 6 and 7.1 mm the 6 plus) and on which numerous users reported that could be folded easily when carrying them in their pocketespecially the plus model. After these iPhone, Apple had not come down again from 7 mm so far.
Asked why measures has taken Apple to avoid similar problems in the AIR, managers insisted that The design makes the iPhone Air more durable than any previous iPhone.
To demonstrate it, Joswiak launched an iPhone Air to one of the interviewers and challenged him to bend him. After accidentally falling on a table on the side, the interviewers tried to double the device and verified that ‘It arches, but returns to its original form’.
‘Of course, if you apply enough strength, You can make it flex a little, but go back‘, explained Ternus.
‘That is the idea. It’s like a building designed to resist earthquakes, right? The idea is to give a little and then recover its form, ‘added Joswiak.
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When asked about how it could affect a torsion or flexion thus to the battery of such a thin device, Apple executives indicated that A metal housing on the battery has been placed to make it much more resistant.
We will probably see more tests of this style when the iPhone Air arrives at the hands of users next week. It can already be reserved on the Apple website from € 1,219 And the Friday, September 19.