The iPhone 17 “Slim” (as some are taking to calling it) is likely one of the extra fascinating rumors to come out of Cupertino shortly. The gist of it’s that, within the fall of subsequent yr, Apple will introduce a brand new ultra-thin iPhone along with a few of the traditional lineup.
The rumors preserve altering and evolving into an image of an iPhone in contrast to any we’ve seen thus far. The most recent rumors come from a Medium put up by Ming-Chi Kuo, a famous provide chain analyst who has usually been proper with previous leaks (however whose file has been extra combined just lately).
Kuo says the brand new ultra-slim iPhone is predicted to “emphasize progressive type issue design moderately than competing on {hardware} specs.” To that finish, he claims these are the specs of the slim iPhone 17 that he is aware of about thus far:
- Display measurement: Roughly 6.6 inches
- Display decision: Roughly 2740 by 1260 pixels
- Processor: A19 chip (with the higher-end iPhones utilizing the A19 Professional)
- Dynamic Island space: Just like present fashions
- Metallic body: Adoption of a titanium-aluminum alloy metallic body, with a decrease proportion of titanium than the present Professional and Professional Max metallic frames (with different iPhone 17 fashions utilizing aluminum metallic frames)
- 5G chip: Adoption of Apple’s in-house 5G chip
- Digicam: Single rear digital camera (vast digital camera)
Most of it strains up with earlier rumors: a display screen measurement not fairly as massive because the Professional Max variants however shut, Dynamic Island and many others.
That is the second time we’ve heard it should use the lower-end A19 chip not the Professional model from the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max. With out understanding the variations between them, it’s laborious to say if that’s an enormous deal or not.
Essentially the most notable new particulars are that the telephone will use Apple’s personal in-house 5G chip, which is now years delayed and appears to by no means fairly recover from the end line. If it’s prepared for what’s going to probably be a premium, costly telephone by subsequent fall, that’s definitely information.
However one rear digital camera? No ultra-wide nor telephoto? That appears like an enormous step again, it doesn’t matter what the priorities of this telephone are.
Kuo doesn’t dive into value, which has beforehand been rumored to be every thing from “much like the iPhone 17 Plus could be” to “dearer than the iPhone 17 Professional Max.”