GoKawiilApple is working on a second-generation iPhone Air, and it could address several key limitations of the current model. Here’s everything we know about the iPhone Air 2, including features, release date, and more.
Will there be an iPhone Air 2?
The iPhone Air has reportedly sold worse than Apple expected. The Information reported in November that Apple had indefinitely delayed the release of a second-generation model due to those lower-than-expected sales.
Apple reportedly “notified engineers and suppliers that they were taking the next iPhone Air off the schedule without providing a new release date.”
Shortly thereafter, however, The Information updated its reporting to say Apple wasn’t canceling the iPhone Air 2 altogether and that one is still very much in the works.
iPhone Air 2 features
A second camera
One of the biggest tradeoffs of the ultra-thin iPhone Air design is that it only has one camera. This is reportedly something Apple is pushing to change for the iPhone Air 2.
According to sources including Bloomberg and The Information, the iPhone Air 2 will have a second camera on the back.
Bloomberg says it will be an ultra-wide camera, not a telephoto camera. This would align it with Apple’s base model iPhones, which also have a main camera and an ultra-wide camera.
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