A set of iPhone 17 dummies appeared final evening in a brand new leak from Sonny Dickson, who has an extended historical past of reliably leaking the nonfunctional variations of iPhones that case and accent makers use to arrange for the subsequent yr’s crop of handsets. The pictures look very very like the renders we’ve seen in latest weeks, right down to the phone-spanning digicam bump that Apple is anticipated so as to add to all however the usual iPhone 17.
Dickson consists of photographs of the dummies from all sides. The edge-on photographs right here actually do a superb job exhibiting how huge of a distinction there will likely be between the rumored iPhone 17 Air and the others. The remainder of the iPhone line, which I’ve by no means regarded as particularly thick, seems to be completely beefy by comparability. Take a glance:
The dummies seem to again up rumors that the iPhone 17 Air will likely be a 6.6-inch cellphone, positioning it in between the 6.3-inch iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9-inch 16 Pro Max of this yr. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterates that it’s going to have a 6.6-inch display screen in in the present day’s Power On publication. Apple had thought of making it 6.9 inches, he writes, however “pulled the plug on that over fears {that a} skinny machine with a large display screen can be vulnerable to bending.” He provides that the cellphone will get slim bezels like 16 Pro telephones, a Dynamic Island cutout, and Camera Control button — which Dickson’s dummy photographs appear to help.
The iPhone 17 Air is anticipated to be as skinny as 5.5mm, with a single digicam on the again just like the iPhone 16E. Gurman writes that the cellphone will get a mixture of high-end options, like a 120Hz ProMovement show, and low-end ones, like an Apple A19 chip as an alternative of an A19 Pro. Despite its thinness, he says it is going to have battery life on par with different iPhones. Finally, he expects the cellphone will price “roughly $900,” or about what the iPhone 16 Plus begins at now.
If individuals take to the 17 Air, Gurman says Apple plans to do extra bold issues with it, like make it the port-free iPhone that rumors have swirled about for years now. He says the corporate might deliver the skinny strategy to different fashions, too, and once more says that the strategies and applied sciences used to make the 17 Air are a part of Apple’s preparations to launch its first folding cellphone — one much like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, however with a less-visible crease — by 2026. The Information made an analogous folding iPhone prediction in June final yr.
