Apple whitethorn person settled connected iPhone 17 Air arsenic the sanction for the rumored skinny iPhone that’s expected this fall, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman successful today’s Power On newsletter. He writes that the telephone will beryllium “a testing crushed for early technologies,” including the tech that leads to the company’s first foldables.
The sanction wouldn’t beryllium astonishing — some the MacBook Air and iPad Air were the thinnest versions of their lines erstwhile they were released. The iPhone 17 Air is expected to transportation that guardant by being “about 2 millimeters thinner” than existent iPhones, Gurman has written. Other recent rumors person put it betwixt 5.5mm and 6.25mm thick, which is adjacent to the M4 iPad Pro’s extent and little than the thinnest iPhone truthful far, the iPhone 6.
The thinness isn’t conscionable a flex — realizing it will thief Apple on toward early foldable iPads and iPhones, Gurman writes. And he says the telephone could beryllium 1 of Apple’s first proving grounds for its in-house compartment modem, codenamed Sinope, aft it debuts successful the iPhone SE this spring. This year’s iPhone lineup is besides expected to debut Apple-designed Wi-Fi / Bluetooth chips, though Gurman doesn’t spell arsenic acold arsenic saying that includes the 17 Air.
Past rumors person said the caller 17 Air will get a 6.6-inch ProMotion OLED display — Apple’s 120Hz adaptable refresh complaint surface utilized only connected iPhone Pro models truthful acold — and that it will person conscionable a single 48-megapixel camera lens connected the back, pinch a 24-megapixel selfie camera. It whitethorn person Apple’s A19 spot and, like the iPhone SE 4, is expected to battalion 8GB of RAM to tally Apple Intelligence AI features.