In 2025, Apple is planning to debut a thinner model of the iPhone that might be offered alongside the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Professional, and iPhone 17 Professional Max. This iPhone 17 “Air” might be about two millimeters thinner than the present iPhone 16 Pro, based on Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman.
The iPhone 16 Professional is 8.25mm thick, so an iPhone 17 that’s 2mm thinner would are available in at round 6.25mm. At 6.25mm, the iPhone 17 Air could be Apple’s thinnest iPhone up to now. The thinnest iPhone we have seen thus far was the iPhone 6, which measured in at 6.9mm. iPhones received thicker with the iPhone X and past, as Apple elevated thickness to offer more room for the battery, digital camera lenses, Face ID {hardware}, and extra.
Apple will equip the iPhone 17 Air with its personal custom-designed 5G modem chip, and that chip is smaller than 5G modem chips from Qualcomm. Gurman says that Apple centered on making the chip extra built-in with different Apple-designed elements to avoid wasting house throughout the iPhone, and that house financial savings is what allowed it to create the slimmed down iPhone 17 Air with out sacrificing battery life, the digital camera, or the show high quality.
Prior rumors have also suggested that the iPhone 17 Air might be someplace between 5mm and 6mm thick, and the ~6mm thickness has now been proposed by a number of dependable sources. The iPhone 17 Air is predicted to have a show that is round 6.6 inches in dimension, and it’ll additionally characteristic a single-lens rear digital camera.
The iPhone 17 Air might be one in every of three gadgets which might be set to get a {custom} Apple modem chip in 2025, with Apple additionally bringing the chip to the iPhone SE early within the yr and a low-cost iPad.
As Apple improves its modem chip design, the saved house may enable for “new designs” equivalent to a foldable iPhone. In accordance with Gurman, Apple is constant to discover foldable iPhone know-how. Apple is aiming to part out Qualcomm modems throughout a three-year interval as Apple introduces more and more extra highly effective modem chips.
Finally, Apple may debut a system-on-a-chip that features a processor, modem, Wi-Fi chip, and different elements, which might save extra house and permit for tighter integration between {hardware} elements.
