The Morning After: Hands-on With The Iphone Air, Iphone 17 Pro, Airpods Pro 3 And More

As nan Pumpkin Spice approaches, it’s clip for a bunch of caller iPhones. Welcome to a typical version of nan Engadget newsletter, breaking down everything Apple announced successful nan past 24 hours. What’s notable this twelvemonth is, of course, nan iPhone Air. Launching alongside nan guidelines iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, it’s an intriguing caller spirit of iOS.

The iPhone Air: It’s a brave prime to explanation nan caller superslim telephone pinch nan aforesaid suffix arsenic nan game-changing MacBook Air. Barring nan slimmer floor plan and accompanying compromises, it’s not arsenic astonishing arsenic it could person been. Early rumors suggested it mightiness person arrived without a azygous port, pinch wireless charging and WiFi alone.

Instead, nan iPhone Air (no 17) is an engineering marvel. With a assemblage thickness of conscionable 5.6mm and made of spacecraft-grade titanium, it besides has Ceramic Shield 2 connected some sides, which helps make it much durable than immoderate erstwhile iPhone.

It features nan aforesaid A19 Pro spot arsenic nan iPhone 17 Pro, on pinch Apple’s N1 spot for wireless connectivity and nan caller C1X modem, which is reportedly doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic nan C1 introduced pinch nan iPhone 16e.

Compromises had to happen, though. Apple kept nan iPhone Air bladed successful portion by going for a azygous 48-megapixel camera, but it did effort to make it arsenic versatile arsenic possible. It has a ample two-micrometer quad-pixel sensor that excels successful debased light, on pinch an optical value 2x telephoto. Apple says it’s “the balanced of 4 lenses successful their pocket,” but well, why doesn’t nan guidelines iPhone 17 person it? It besides seems a spot anemic compared to nan S25 Edge (Samsung’s super-thin smartphone) and its 200MP main camera.

Worried that a bladed artillery intends precarious artillery life? Apple claims nan iPhone Air will get “all-day” artillery life acknowledgment successful portion to hardware designed to cram much artillery into smaller designs and package for illustration Adaptive Power Mode. To assuage those concerns, Apple made a caller super-slim MagSafe artillery battalion to boost really agelong it lasts.

There’s besides an intangible entreaty to nan ‘first’ of a caller Apple product. I retrieve upgrading a twelvemonth into my iPhone 7 statement to get nan first iPhone without a location button. The iPhone X is simply a bully comparison to make, perhaps. Both nan iPhone X and iPhone Air person nan aforesaid price: $999.

— Mat Smith

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Our first impressions and hands-ons astatine nan Apple iPhone 17 event

The iPhone 17 Pro is redesigned to location its biggest artillery ever

New thermals, caller cameras, caller color!

So, if nan iPhone Air grabs nan headlines, what astir nan pro model? Apple’s astir powerful iPhone now has nan A19 Pro chipset and comes pinch 6.9- (iPhone 17 Pro Max) and 6.3-inch (iPhone 17 Pro) surface sizes. Glass has been replaced pinch Ceramic Shield 2, which makes nan iPhone 17 Pro much durable than ever.

A caller rear camera setup includes a caller 48MP telephoto lens, which tin sprout up to 8x “optical quality” zoom astatine 12MP and 4x astatine its afloat resolution. Both nan wide and ultrawide sensors are 48MP too, for solution parity crossed them all. The iPhone 17 Pro bid starts astatine $1,099 for a 256GB exemplary and will beryllium disposable for pre-order starting Friday, September 12.

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The iPhone 17 has a amended surface and amended durability

With guidelines retention up to 256GB.

Arriving successful 4 colorways, nan iPhone 13 has improvements successful powerfulness efficiency, a smoother surface and a caller selfie cam. This mightiness beryllium nan astir intriguing update: The institution has improved nan selfie camera to beryllium a “center stage” beforehand camera, pinch amended stabilization, a wider section of position and a caller larger square sensor. Because it’s square, you won’t person to rotate your iPhone erstwhile you want to return a photograph aliases video successful scenery mode.

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AirPods Pro 3 person amended sound cancellation and health-tracking features

Live translator is built into nan buds.

Yes, we person an update to Apple’s AirPods Pro — arguably, nan Apple hardware I’ve utilized nan astir complete nan past 3 years. I moreover bought a standalone USB-C charging case. The institution has improved nan wireless buds successful immoderate awesome ways. The large features see a bosom complaint sensor that tin hook into iOS workout apps (and third-party apps) and a caller unrecorded translator characteristic (a la Pixel Buds) that converts overseas languages connected nan alert and moreover lowers audio of nan speaker truthful you tin amended perceive nan translation. They’ll support English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish astatine launch. The buds themselves are a spot smaller to fresh much ears, and location are now 5 extremity sizes, up from three.

No characteristic yet to make group who talk to you while wearing AirPods little insufferable. The AirPods Pro 3 costs $249, and pre-orders are unfastened correct now.

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Apple launches nan Watch Series 11, Ultra 3 and SE

Something for everyone?

The Series 11 is doubly arsenic scratch-resistant arsenic erstwhile Apple Watches and now moreover has 5G connectivity. The watch will show for precocious humor unit utilizing improved algorithms and nan built-in bosom complaint monitor. If nan watch identifies patterns of hypertension, you’ll get an alert successful nan Health app. The biggest upgrade whitethorn beryllium up to 24 hours of artillery life connected a azygous charge.

The Ultra 3 has a bigger display, outer connectivity, and emergency SOS. The Watch Ultra 3’s caller 3D printed lawsuit has moreover smaller bezels, while nan show exertion has been tweaked (LTPO3) to amended off-angle viewing.

The Apple Watch SE is getting an update pinch a caller always-on display, optional 5G, nan improved S10 spot and support for gestures for illustration double pat and wrist flick. The Apple Watch SE will besides supply slumber apnea notifications and nan caller Sleep Score characteristic that’s disposable connected Series 11 watches. The Apple Watch Series 11 starts astatine $399, nan Ultra 3 starts astatine $799 and nan SE starts astatine $249.

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