Apple's iPhone Air 2 could look very different, and here's our first look

The device also looks slightly thinner. This is another detail that a previous leak has hinted at. For reference, the original has a thickness of 5.6 mm, but the upcoming model is rumored to be 5.2 mm thick.

 

The iPhone 18 dummy unit

In addition to the iPhone Air 2, a dummy unit of the iPhone 18 has also surfaced. The phone looks almost identical to the iPhone 17 from the back, featuring a dual vertical camera setup that's placed in the top-right corner. Notably, a previous leak suggested that the phone could get a camera plateau like the iPhone 18 Pro models.

 

Our readers will be happy to know that Apple might continue with the same old design, as 48% of the votes in our recent poll went to the option saying that the camera plateau looks ugly.

There's a demand for a telephoto lens as well

While a good number of users appear to be liking the rumored ultra-wide lens in the iPhone Air 2, some are rather interested in a telephoto lens. Under a relevant Reddit post, some users mentioned that they want the upcoming device to feature a telephoto camera instead of an ultra-wide one. One user mentioned that they rarely use the ultra-wide lens that their iPhone Duo features. Instead, it is the telephoto shooter that is actually useful as a second lens.

Another user replied to the above comment that they would take telephoto over ultra-wide any day. One Redditor by the name Outsider1996 mentioned that they barely used ultra-wide on their last iPhone, while they were using the telephoto camera almost every day.

The original uses digital cropping of the main camera to offer 1x and 2x optical zoom, and its successor is rumored to follow the same approach. The drawback of this technique is that the zoom is limited to 1x or 2x, and you will start to notice a quality loss in the image if you try to zoom more. That said, the upgraded image signal processor on the latest A20 chip might help in producing slightly better quality zoomed images than the Apple A19 Pro in the original.

The iPhone Air 2 is shaping up to be a device worth getting

Although I am personally not into ultra-slim phones, I really like everything that has surfaced about the iPhone Air 2. It's apparently getting thinner and could also come with a highly requested secondary camera. In addition to these, the phone is also rumored to pack a 3500 mAh battery, which is slightly bigger than what you have in the first generation iPhone Air.

However, there is still uncertainty on whether the upcoming device would get a second speaker or not, which is another highly requested feature from users who have used the original. We also find in our review that the sound quality of the phone is not as good as other iPhones.

The phone could launch sometime in spring. 2027, and I am also expecting a price increase over the last year model.