Apple engineers are wrestling with the place to place the SIM card, battery, and thermal supplies within the rumored iPhone 17 “Slim,” in response to The Information. Although US iPhones haven’t had SIM playing cards for a few years now, they’re required to in China, making it a tough, however mandatory hurdle to recover from.
The 17 Slim’s single, center-mounted digicam will reportedly be surrounded by an oblong bump that’s manufactured from aluminum as an alternative of glass. It additionally says the iPhone Plus will go away the lineup, one thing that’s been rumored on and off alongside whispers about this new telephone.
Other rumors across the 17 Slim (or Air, or no matter Apple names it) embody that it’ll function a 6.6-inch (or 6.55-inch) show and an aluminum body. It may get a extra energy-dense battery, which it can want if it’s beneath 6mm thick, as The Information writes. That’s slimmer than the 6.9mm iPhone 6, Apple’s all-time thinness champ — a distinction that famously got here with sure… structural compromises. And all of that might come at a price; rumors have pegged its worth someplace north of the $1,200 Pro Max.
