Yesterday, Apple unveiled its brand new ultra-thin iPhone Air. While they did show off much about the phone in the keynote, there are a number of smaller details you can only find by digging into the website. We’ll be rounding those up here.
Binned A19 Pro chip
Despite the iPhone Air offering the ‘same’ A19 Pro chip as the iPhone 17 Pro, that isn’t quite the case.
iPhone 17 Pro’s A19 Pro chip offers a 6 core CPU and 6 core GPU, whereas the iPhone Air offers a 6 core CPU and 5 core GPU. For reference, the standard A19 in iPhone 17 also offers a 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU.
That said, it’s not like the iPhone Air’s A19 Pro is identical to the iPhone 17’s A19. They might offer the same core counts, but the A19 Pro is slightly more efficient.
More importantly, the A19 Pro offers 12GB of memory, versus the standard A19 which offers 8GB.
Slower USB-C port
Similar to the base iPhone 17 (as well as the non-pro iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 that came before it), the iPhone Air only offers a USB-C port with USB 2 speeds. This is contrast to the iPhone 17 Pro, which offers USB 3 speeds at up to 10Gb/s.
Additionally, the USB-C port isn’t perfectly centered on the bottom of the phone – likely because of how little space they have. Apple also did this with the iPhone XR and 11.
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