Apple will probably replace the iPhone Plus model this year with an ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air-this is how thin the new device will be.
The iPhone 17 Air becomes that thin
The Information has said that the iPhone 17 Air will be approximately 6 mm thick and Jeff PU also assumes 6 mm. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that the iPhone 17 Air will be 5.5 mm thick at the thinnest point, which may mean that the device has a thicker camera island on the back.
WeIBO user Ice Universe Now indicates that he is behind Kuo’s prediction. He claims that the camera island on the iPhone 17 Air 4 mm thick is, which means that the device is 9.5 mm thick at the thickest point.
Rumors about the design
According to earlier rumors, the iPhone 17 Air has a single camera on the back and a microphone and LED flash on the right. These are all in an elongated camera island, which looks a lot like the beam at the back of Google Pixel-Phones.
Other rumors indicate that the iPhone 17 Air gets a 6.6-inch to 6.7-inch display, which means that the device will be larger than the iPhone 17 (6.3 inches) but smaller than the iPhone 17 Pro Max (6.9 inch). Ice Universe said last week that the Air model except for the thickness is just as large as the Pro Max model, but this does not match the most rumors that we have seen so far.
Ice Universe previously accurately unveiled the correct dimensions of iPhones before they were released. For example, he was right about the dimensions of the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. It may therefore also be right about the dimensions of the device at the thickest point. Time will learn, because we expect Apple to market the iPhone 17 Air around mid -September.
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