The iPhone 17 Air makes other models look chunky in new leaked dummy shots

A group of iPhone 17 dummies appeared past nighttime successful a new leak from Sonny Dickson, who has a agelong history of reliably leaking the nonfunctional versions of iPhones that lawsuit and accessory makers usage to hole for the adjacent year’s harvest of handsets. The images look very overmuch for illustration the renders we’ve seen successful recent weeks, down to the phone-spanning camera bump that Apple is expected to adhd to each but the modular iPhone 17.

Dickson includes shots of the dummies from each sides. The edge-on shots present really do a bully occupation showing really large of a quality location will beryllium betwixt the rumored iPhone 17 Air and the others. The remainder of the iPhone line, which I person ne'er thought of arsenic particularly thick, looks perfectly beefy by comparison. Take a look:

The dummies look to backmost up rumors that the iPhone 17 Air will beryllium a 6.6-inch phone, positioning it successful betwixt the 6.3-inch iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9-inch 16 Pro Max of this year. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterates that it’s going to person a 6.6-inch surface successful today’s Power On newsletter. Apple had considered making it 6.9 inches, he writes, but “pulled the plug connected that complete fears that a bladed instrumentality pinch a elephantine surface would beryllium susceptible to bending.” He adds that the telephone will get slim bezels for illustration 16 Pro phones, a Dynamic Island cutout, and Camera Control fastener — which Dickson’s dummy photos look to support.

The iPhone 17 Air is expected to beryllium as bladed arsenic 5.5mm, pinch a azygous camera connected the backmost like the iPhone 16E. Gurman writes that the telephone will get a operation of high-end features, for illustration a 120Hz ProMotion display, and low-end ones, for illustration an Apple A19 spot alternatively of an A19 Pro. Despite its thinness, he says it will person artillery life connected par pinch different iPhones. Finally, he expects the telephone will costs “roughly $900,” aliases astir what the iPhone 16 Plus starts astatine now.

If group return to the 17 Air, Gurman says Apple plans to do much eager things pinch it, for illustration make it the port-free iPhone that rumors person swirled astir for years now. He says the institution whitethorn bring the bladed attack to different models, too, and again says that the methods and technologies utilized to make the 17 Air are portion of Apple’s preparations to merchandise its first folding telephone — 1 akin to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, but pinch a less-visible crease — by 2026. The Information made a akin folding iPhone prediction in June past year.