Apple is predicted to launch its thinnest cellphone but later this yr with the iPhone 17 Air. Rumors have held that the cellphone shall be thinner than the 6.9mm iPhone 6 was, however current leaks give us a greater concept than we’ve had earlier than of what to anticipate.
But the place Kuo stated the cellphone can have a 6.6-inch display screen, Ice Universe says it’ll truly be 6.9 inches just like the iPhone 17 Pro Max — they are saying each telephones can have the identical “size, width, display screen measurement, and bezel” because the iPhone 16 Pro Max. Later, they posted a video displaying an obvious render of the machine.
On Friday, YouTuber iDeviceHelp posted a video in collaboration with leaker Majin Bu, who printed similar-looking renders final month. iDeviceHelp claims to be displaying mockups of the usual, Pro Max, and Air fashions “primarily based on inner paperwork.” The video lingers on the sting of the cellphone at moments, and I used to be instantly struck by how a lot seeing it jogged my memory of trying edge-on on the 5.1mm 13-inch M4 iPad Pro, the one Apple machine thinner than that is rumored to be.
It’s onerous to not additionally discover the Google Pixel-like digital camera bar stretching left-to-right on the again of iDeviceHelp’s mockups of the iPhone 17 Air and Pro Max. It’s unclear whether or not the bar is practical or simply Apple making an attempt out some new aesthetic, however I welcome all of it the identical, if for no different motive than my iPhone 15 Pro is so dang floppy when laying on its again on my desk. iDeviceHelp demonstrated with the 17 Pro Max mockup that the bar appears to assist there. But in each instances, the rear cameras themselves nonetheless stick up out of the bar, so it is probably not good. Oh nicely, perhaps subsequent yr.
As for the remainder of the design, these renders and mockups seem to point out it with buttons in all the identical locations as present iPhones (not counting the iPhone 16E, which lacks the Camera Control button), together with a USB-C port and speaker holes on the underside. The cellphone can also be anticipated to have a Dynamic Island and Face ID on the entrance. We gained’t doubtless know for positive how shut the renders are till September, when Apple sometimes reveals its newest batch of flagship iPhones.
