Among the many many rumors concerning the upcoming iPhone 17 is that it’s going to characteristic a brand new digital camera bar design throughout the again of the physique. It’s a serious change from the upper-corner placement that has been on iPhones for the reason that starting. The iPhone 17 Professional, specifically, might have a big digital camera bar to accommodate the three lenses that stretches throughout the whole again of the cellphone.
That bar might have a job in mobile connectivity, too. Leaker Majin Bu reported on Monday that Apple goes to maneuver the mobile antenna on the iPhone 17 Professional round that massive digital camera bar. The corporate is taking a cue from the Apple Watch Extremely, which has its mobile antenna “close to structural and practical components of its chassis,” in line with Bu.
Apple often locations the antenna on the facet fringe of the iPhone. On the digital camera bar, the antenna could be “much less liable to shielding and interference, bettering efficiency in congested environments and making certain a secure connection on the go,” in line with Bu. Bu additionally factors out that this might improve 5G mmWave efficiency, cut back latency, enhance effectivity, and optimize the primary physique for the battery and thermal parts.
Bu particularly addresses the iPhone 17 Professional with this structural change. It’s not clear if the usual iPhone 17 or the rumored iPhone 17 Air can have the identical antenna implementation. It’s attainable that the digital camera bars on these telephones aren’t giant sufficient to accommodate an antenna. Apple launched its personal C1 mobile modem with the iPhone 16e, however the iPhone 17 Professional fashions are nonetheless anticipated to make use of Qualcomm’s modem.
Whereas the present antenna implementation within the cellphone’s facet body has confirmed totally practical, it has had its hurdles. Apple bumped into issues with the iPhone 4 and its antenna placement, which left clients dissatisfied with the mobile efficiency–a lot in order that the difficulty was infamously dubbed Antennagate. Since then, the iPhone’s mobile reliability and efficiency have been constantly stable.