I took a primary take a look at the battery pack this afternoon, and it has a considerably slimmer design than the outdated model. This model of the battery pack is thinner and longer, stretching as far throughout the again of the cellphone as it may earlier than bumping into the digicam bar. Slimming it down reduces the potential battery dimension, however it makes the pack extra appropriately balanced with the cellphone because of this. The brand new mannequin didn’t really feel goofy to carry in the identical method that the thick outdated model did.
Making use of a battery pack to the super-slim iPhone Air comes with some drawbacks. Specifically, it makes the cellphone greater once more. With the battery pack on, the iPhone Air feels much more like some other iPhone and makes it thicker than different iPhones, too. The battery pack is barely thicker than the iPhone Air. In my transient time with it, the pack didn’t really feel overwhelmingly cumbersome, however it tempered a number of the advantages of the brand new cellphone’s design.
One other disadvantage: this battery pack is unique to the iPhone Air. Whereas it may technically snap onto something with magnets, it’s sized to suit the iPhone Air particularly. Meaning it would match onto Apple iPhone Professional Max, however the smaller mannequin — with a 6.3-inch display in comparison with the Air’s 6.5-inch — possible gained’t work.
Past that, the battery pack is styled very similar to the unique. It’s gentle to carry and has a comfortable matte exterior. There’s a small gentle close to the underside that glows to point out charging standing when it attaches to a cellphone. I get the sense that many individuals will need Apple to deliver this design to its different cellphone fashions. Or they’ll select an Air to allow them to get this, no matter whether or not the general battery good points really add up.