The iPhone Air is our Phone of the Year because it's the only phone that everybody is talking about

This was a great year for phones, but in five years, when we look back at 2025, it will be the Apple iPhone Air that stands out as the trendsetter that changed the phone world forever. It’s the phone that every other phone maker will inevitably copy. Just as it did with the MacBook Air (and iPod nano), Apple has changed the game with the iPhone Air and shown us why we were wrong about everything we thought we knew.

If you’d asked me before I used the iPhone Air what I wanted in a new iPhone I would have begged for the opposite of what the Air offers – and I would have been wrong. I thought I wanted more battery life, more cameras, and more features. I don’t want any of that. I just want Air. And that's why it ...