- The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be 5.5 mm thick
- It’s anticipated to exchange the iPhone 16 Plus
- Samsung is rumored to be launching a Galaxy S25 Slim too
If the rumors are proper, we’ll get a brand new iPhone mannequin this yr: the iPhone 17 Air. Courtesy of 1 well-known Apple analyst, we’d now know simply how skinny this handset will probably be – and it is apparently going to beat the Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim when it comes to thinness.
According to Ming-Chi Kuo (through MacRumors), the iPhone 17 Air goes to be a mere 5.5 mm, entrance to again, at its thinnest level. For comparability, the present iPhone 16 measures 7.8 mm entrance to again – so the brand new cellphone will probably be almost 30% thinner.
From what we have heard concerning the Galaxy S25 Slim, it is going to be 6.x mm thick. If you’ve got after the thinnest flagship cellphone you should buy in 2025, then it’d nicely be the iPhone 17 Air – although these dimensions nonetheless should be confirmed, after all.
The iPhone 17 Air might solely provide eSIM assist and cast off the bodily SIM card slot as a way to scale back thickness, in response to Kuo. The handset is predicted to exchange the iPhone 16 Plus from the present vary.
Slimming down
The Plus mannequin has reportedly the least fashionable mannequin within the iPhone vary, and Apple will probably be hoping some further gross sales might be sparked with a redesign and a brand new identify – with the cellphone’s thinness apparently the important thing promoting level.
If the 5.5 mm prediction is appropriate, then the iPhone 17 Air would declare the respect of being the thinnest iPhone ever constructed. The present document holder in that regard is the iPhone 6 that launched in 2014 measured 6.9 mm entrance to again.
The cellphone has additionally been rumored to make use of a thinner and extra environment friendly show know-how, which is able to assist in hitting that 5.5 mm goal. As with the opposite iPhone 17 we are able to additionally sit up for a bump in efficiency as nicely.
It’ll be Samsung that will get to indicate off its super-thin cellphone first although: the subsequent Samsung Unpacked occasion is scheduled for January 22, and we expect we’ll see 4 totally different Samsung Galaxy S25 fashions, together with the Galaxy S25 Slim.
