Last week we wrote about the iPhone 17 Series. My colleague reviewed the iPhone 17, and found it to be a great value. I reviewed the iPhone 17 Pro and loved all the top performance and top features that it offered, so much so that I believed it to be THE BEST phone you could buy in India this year. But somewhere in the middle of this, there is another iPhone — the iPhone Air. It is hogging the limelight. It is the phone which is sparking the most intense, and fiercest conversations this year. Some people love it, adore it with stars in their eyes, while many find it superfluous. Some say it is a work of art, while some call it a vanity. The reality is that the iPhone Air is all this. It is difficult to put a label on it, and in that way it is already a success. It is unique.

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Personally, I love it. I have been using the phone for around 10 days and I love what it offers. But at the same time, I also miss what it doesn’t. That is the enigma with the iPhone Air. It’s a phone that you can easily like and adore. But its limitations are also going to make you crave something more, something that it can’t give you. And on occasions, it might even prove to be somewhat hassling.

In other words, I don’t find the iPhone Air to be a phone for everyone. Like the iPhone 17 is. Or even the iPhone 17 Pro is. Instead, the iPhone Air is for a certain kind of user, and for this user it is perfect.

Svelte and made to admire

The iPhone Air has been made due to several reasons. One is the future, for which Apple has a foldable phone in the works. In that way, you can say that the iPhone Air is half of this future foldable iPhone.

Two, Apple wants to readjust its iPhone line up. It has been trying for a while but the company has been unable to create four phones that can vibe with consumers. Earlier, the iPhone Mini was an outlier, and wouldn’t sell in numbers that Apple wanted. Then the iPhone Plus version, despite being a superb and logical choice for most consumers, failed to get the numbers Apple wanted.