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0 pointsgoalieca8mo ago0 comments

I would love a lighter phone. If I chase after kids at the park, the thing is banging around like a lead weight in my pockets.

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schwarzrules8mo ago

Safe to assume those are your kids?

lifestyleguru8mo ago

I already imagined a guy in cargo shorts.

2lup382_8mo ago

Why make a worse product for a problem that can be solved by carrying your phone a different way, or not having your phone on you for a moment?

skluug8mo ago

"You're holding it wrong"

bryanlarsen8mo ago

This phone is not significantly lighter than previous gen. It's 146g vs 170g for the iPhone 16.

r0fl8mo ago

That’s ~15% improvement

That’s not nothing

layer88mo ago

Parent is wrong, the Air is 165g, not 146g. The previously lightest iPhone in production is the 16e at 167g, so almost no difference in weight between those two.

lynndotpy8mo ago

The iPhone 12 Mini weighed 135g. Even more improvement :)

seec8mo ago

The correct solution already existed but it wasn't expensive luxury fashion bullshit enough so it didn't sell and they'll pretend it never existed.

cenamus8mo ago

Plastic would do more than less battery and more glass/ceramic though, right?

beoberha8mo ago

As other comments have said, this isn't going to change that experience whatsoever

prmoustache8mo ago

But 165gr is not really that light.

martini3338mo ago

And 6.5” is not small.

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