Apple Considers Adding Second Camera to Delayed iPhone Air 2

Apple's reported delay of the second-generation iPhone Air volition beryllium utilized to enactment connected a redesign of the instrumentality that could see a 2nd rear camera, according to a quality little from The Information.


A redesign that includes a 2nd camera is said to beryllium 1 mode that Apple thinks it tin code idiosyncratic complaints that the iPhone Air, portion an awesome plan feat, has led to excessively galore hardware compromises, particularly fixed the precocious terms tag.

Apple priced it starting astatine $999, and that appears to person enactment disconnected customers, starring to reports of poor income and manufacturing cuts. The ‌iPhone Air‌ is lone $100 cheaper than the $1,099 iPhone 17 Pro, which has a triple-lens rear camera and overmuch amended artillery life. Adding a 2nd camera to the ultra-slim instrumentality would besides marque it look much feature-equivalent to the modular iPhone 18 and truthful much appealing to consumers.

The study claims that immoderate Apple engineers privation to merchandise the redesigned mentation with a 2nd camera successful outpouring 2027, which is erstwhile Apple is expected to merchandise the regular iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, arsenic portion of a caller divided motorboat cycle. The iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and an all-new foldable iPhone are expected to motorboat successful autumn 2026, which was erstwhile the iPhone Air 2 was primitively expected. The Information reported connected the hold earlier this week.

The study seemingly corroborates a leak retired of China past week that claimed Apple's 2nd iPhone Air exemplary is successful improvement and could diagnostic two rear cameras alternatively of one, with a 48MP Fusion Ultra Wide camera joining the existing 48MP Fusion Main camera. Multiple technologies are housed successful the plateau of the iPhone Air to maximize abstraction for the battery, truthful Apple would presumably request to redesign the internals considerably to acceptable successful different camera.

Previous reports person said Apple's enactment connected a second-generation mentation of the ‌iPhone Air‌ is aimed astatine reducing the weight, adding vapor enclosure cooling, and improving the artillery capacity.
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