The iPhone Air

A slick, sensuous phone that just might be the best ever

It’s no reflection on the quality of Apple’s flagship product, but the release of a new iPhone hasn’t been an enormous deal for a few years. The specter of Apple devotees lining up overnight outside stores to be the first to buy the latest was always rather embarrassing.

I’m as big an admirer of the iPhone as anyone, but I stopped getting ‘excited’ (Apple for ‘quite interested’) by new models with the iPhone 15, in 2023, by which time it seemed, with so many superb Android phones on the market, that the smartphone as a species had reached pretty much its terminal velocity.