iPhone 17 ‘Slim’ rumors are still floating around

Apple engineers are wrestling pinch wherever to put the SIM card, battery, and thermal materials successful the rumored iPhone 17 “Slim,” according to The Information. Although US iPhones haven’t had SIM cards for a mates of years now, they’re required to successful China, making it a tricky, but basal hurdle to get over.

The 17 Slim’s single, center-mounted camera will reportedly beryllium surrounded by a rectangular bump that’s made of aluminum alternatively of glass. It besides says the iPhone Plus will time off the lineup, thing that’s been rumored disconnected and connected alongside whispers astir this caller phone.

Other rumors astir the 17 Slim (or Air, aliases immoderate Apple names it) see that it will characteristic a 6.6-inch (or 6.55-inch) show and an aluminum frame. It could get a much energy-dense battery, which it will request if it’s nether 6mm thick, arsenic The Information writes. That’s slimmer than the 6.9mm iPhone 6, Apple’s all-time thinness champ — a favoritism that famously came pinch certain... structural compromises. And each of that could travel astatine a cost; rumors person pegged its value location northbound of the $1,200 Pro Max.