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so smaller battery (meaning you will need to replace it earlier, which is bad), larger screen than the base model while having a smaller capacity (making battery life even worse…) compromised cameras (no ultrawide and no telephoto, “optical quality” crop in does not count…), compromised speakers (only the amplified earpiece speaker?), possible durability issues (which may be partially remedied with a case, but that defeats the point of a thin phone…), worse thermals (esp. with the “Pro” chip, albeit one less GPU core, also will make battery life extra worse. iOS 26 is sure to make the thermals worse too…), and more expensive.
For what, a phone that’s a few mm thinner?
so you drop it faster, so then you have to buy a thick rubber case. Smart phones are stupid.
To me the only purpose of this is to beta the thin design before a folding phone. Other than that, it’s kinda dumb.