If you were concerned that the iPhone Air would be as pliable as the iPhone 6 Plus, don’t spend a minute more worrying.
At 5.6mm, the Apple iPhone Air is incredibly thin, and this look could be the future of iPhone design. Similar to how the iPhone X kicked off a major change in the iPhone back in 2017, we could see a thinner iPhone become the norm from here on out. The new design might not be as thin, but certainly Apple learned quite a bit about squeezing components inside its handsets when it developed the iPhone Air.
JerryRigEverything’s Zach Nelson, known for putting phones through various durability tests, including bend tests, put the iPhone Air through his torture tests. What he discovered was that the iPhone Air shouldn’t bend in your pockets as many feared. That’s because it took close to 216 pounds of force, concentrated in one area of the phone, to crack the display. Since pressure applied to the device while in your pocket would be distributed throughout the phone, the iPhone Air is probably safe in your pocket.
Sure, the iPhone Air looks impressive, but when Zach cracked the screen, something even more impressive took place. The handset continued to function normally despite the crack. Interestingly, when he first tried to bend the phone and crack it with his hands, the device would give a little, but then snap back to its original shape That led Zach to say, « The iPhone Air has no business being this indestructible.
