Subj : The iPhone Air is our Phone of the Year because it's the only pho To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 20:15:08 The iPhone Air is our Phone of the Year because it's the only phone that everybody is talking about Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000 Description: The iPhone Air is the phone that everybody is talking about, especially competitors, which started copying the Air even before it launched. It's the most daring phone of the year, and it has us rethinking our phone priorities. FULL STORY ====================================================================== This was a great year for phones, but in five years, when we look back at 2025, it will be the Apple iPhone Air that stands out as the trendsetter that changed the phone world forever. Its the phone that every other phone maker will inevitably copy. Just as it did with the MacBook Air (and iPod nano ), Apple has changed the game with the iPhone Air and shown us why we were wrong about everything we thought we knew. If youd asked me before I used the iPhone Air what I wanted in a new iPhone I would have begged for the opposite of what the Air offers and I would have been wrong. I thought I wanted more battery life, more cameras, and more features. I dont want any of that. I just want Air. And that's why it's the Phone of the Year at the TechRadar Choice Awards 2025 . (Image credit: Future/Lance Ulanoff) You cant understand the Air until you hold it in your own hand and give it a twirl. Heres why: you didnt realize your fingers were so tired. Your heavy iPhone 16 Pro Max or Galaxy S25 Ultra is causing knuckle fatigue and stretching your pockets. Youve been so happy with everything these heavy bricks can do, you forgave the bulk. The first time you pick up the iPhone Air, it will feel new and surprising and fun. Once it makes you smile, consider yourself hooked. How often does picking up a phone make you smile? Did you even know that a phone can do that? If you want that smile in your life, go check out the iPhone Air. The iPhone Air doesn't compromise, it changes expectations (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol) What about the compromises?! Pshaw, I say! The iPhone Air doesnt compromise, it only delights. The small battery on the iPhone Air isnt a compromise; weighing down phones with a big heavy cell, thats the compromise. We compromise comfort to have a few more hours of screen time. The iPhone Air rejects that deal. Actually, the iPhone Air gets pretty good battery life, and its easy to charge your phone throughout the day now that Apple uses the same USB-C charging port as your laptop, earbuds, and everything else. Is the lone camera a compromise? Lets be real smartphone cameras are good but even the best camera phones havent replaced a dedicated camera with a big sensor and long lens. The iPhone Air takes very good photos that will be perfect for everything you do on your phone. If you want to hang pics on your wall, get a Fujifilm. The iPhone Air was the most unpredictable phone of 2025 (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol) The iPhone Air wasnt our first thought for phone of the year. Most of my fellow editors mentioned the Galaxy Z Fold 7 as the best phone of 2025. Thats another phone you have to hold and see to believe. Like the iPhone Air, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 seems impossibly thin and light. When closed, its easily mistaken for a normal flat phone. In your hand, it feels so light that you may even forget that it can open into a tablet that is as big as an iPad mini . The Galaxy Z Fold 7 refuses to compromise on its cameras or battery. It has the same 200MP camera sensor as the Galaxy S25 Ultra, a major feat on a phone that is much thinner than the iPhone Air when open. It also offers great battery life thanks to its dual-battery design and the incredibly efficient Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset inside. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is thinner than the iPhone Air when open (Image credit: Peter Hoffmann) Still, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 seems inevitable. As amazing as it may be, it isnt much different from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 . Every year, Samsung phones get a little thinner and offer a little more. The Fold 7 doesnt feel like a whole new thing, it feels like a better version of last years thing. Next years thing will be even better. Phones are going to get thinner and thinner The iPhone Air is a whole new thing. It is a pleasure to hold and it relieves pain points you hadnt realized were bothering you. Its the phone that every other phone maker will soon be copying if they arent already and its easy to imagine a future filled with smartphones that prioritize being thin and light versus being powerful and robust. I doubt well see a new iPhone Air in 2026; I think it will take another year for Apple to shear another millimeter off its frame. I also doubt that years from now well have any iPhone Air at all. Phones will all be thinner, and the iPhone Air will have succeeded at its mission. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/iphone-air-phone-of-the-year --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .