With a month to go till Apple reveals its brand-new iPhones for 2024, the report mill has actually been whirring faster than ever. However the things of its latest speculation, uncommonly, is next year’s huge launch, the iPhone 17.
In late July, proof emerged that Apple is dealing with a brand-new slim design for late 2025 which this will change the Plus design in the variety. Simply put, there will still be 4 handsets: 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and the brand-new 17 Slim.
Whereas the existing basic designs vary from a density of 7.8 mm (iPhone 15 and 15 Plus) to 8.25 mm (15 Pro and 15 Pro Max), and the comparable 17-series handsets ought to be approximately the very same, the slimline iPhone 17 design is anticipated to have a density of simply 5mm. It’ll be a significant slimming-down workout, simply put, and the very first truly substantial physical redesign given that the iPhone 12 in 2020.
Many experts, triggered by a beginning (and shocking) cost of $1,299 exposed by the leaker Ice Universe, have actually presumed the slim design will sit at the top of the variety, costing more even than the iPhone 17 Pro Max. However as the leaker and YouTuber Jon Prosser mentions, this sits unusually with the dripped specifications we’ve become aware of up until now. The slim design is anticipated, for instance, to get a non-Pro A19 processor and a single rear-facing cam lens, neither of which recommend it’s targeted at the professional end of the marketplace.
In a prolonged however rather amusing video, Prosser advances his thesis: the slim design isn’t meant to be a premium efficiency design at all, however rather it will be marketed in the same way as the initial MacBook Air, focusing on type over function. Many reports state it will have weaker specifications than the iPhone 17 Pro generation and a lower video camera system, however will be slimmer and lighter. Is that worth a premium cost? Prosser does not appear to believe so.
It ought to be kept in mind, nevertheless, that the initial MacBook Air was barely inexpensive, with a cost beginning at $1,799 without USB-A or an optical drive and a lower-end 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB of RAM and an 80GB drive. However that remained in 2008.
Prosser is so sure of himself, undoubtedly, that he has actually promised to shave his head totally if the slim iPhone 17 expenses a cent more than the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Routine readers will remember that “Prosstradamus” as soon as made a comparable bet including his eyebrows, and needed to pay. He likewise as soon as forecasted that Apple would rebrand iOS as iPhoneOS, so do not by any means presume he is constantly best.
Following the reasoning of the MacBook contrast, Prosser believes the brand-new design will not be called the iPhone 17 Slim at all, however rather the iPhone 17 Air. However that part of the forecast does not featured any hair-removal surrenders, so is rather less interesting. However based upon Apple’s other items, the Air name makes good sense.
