Do Not Touch The iPhone Air — It Will Spoil You For Life

The iPhone Air is not a good phone. But once you touch it you will need to buy it. This is the mistake I made. I went to a store that happened to have the iPhone Air on display and I touched it. And then I instantly went, “I need this.” It is just so thin and elegant. The iPhone Air feels like the future. When I hold my previous phone, the iPhone 13 mini, it feels like the past.

It’s doubly embarrassing because in September I wrote an article titled Who Are The iPhone Air And Pro Even For? arguing no one should buy the iPhone Air or the Pro because the base iPhone 17 is too good. Well, I guess I have to eat my words.

Now I still sort of feel that the iPhone Air is not a great phone. Coming from the iPhone 13 mini, the main problem is that it is way too big. It’s actually not as big as the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but it’s about halfway between the base iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Pro Max’s size. I still can’t reach across the screen one-handed though. There is something really interesting I discovered: you can use the camera ‘plateau’ as a handle which allows you to reach the top of the screen.