The Iphone Air Could Be Coming Later This Year

Apple whitethorn personification settled connected iPhone 17 Air arsenic nan punishment for nan rumored skinny iPhone that’s expected this fall, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman successful today’s Power On newsletter. He writes that nan telephone will beryllium “a testing crushed for early technologies,” including nan tech that leads to nan company’s first foldables.

The punishment wouldn’t beryllium astonishing — immoderate nan MacBook Air and iPad Air were nan thinnest versions of their lines erstwhile they were released. The iPhone 17 Air is expected to proscription that guardant by being “about 2 millimeters thinner” than existent iPhones, Gurman has written. Other caller rumors personification put it betwixt 5.5mm and 6.25mm thick, which is adjacent to nan M4 iPad Pro’s grade and small than nan thinnest iPhone truthful far, nan iPhone 6.

The thinness isn’t conscionable a flex — realizing it will thief Apple connected toward early foldable iPads and iPhones, Gurman writes. And he says nan telephone could beryllium 1 of Apple’s first proving grounds for its in-house compartment modem, codenamed Sinope, aft it debuts successful nan iPhone SE this spring. This year’s iPhone lineup is too expected to debut Apple-designed Wi-Fi / Bluetooth chips, though Gurman doesn’t spell arsenic acold arsenic saying that includes nan 17 Air.

Past rumors personification said nan caller 17 Air will get a 6.6-inch ProMotion OLED show — Apple’s 120Hz adaptable refresh title aboveground utilized only connected iPhone Pro models truthful acold — and that it will personification conscionable a azygous 48-megapixel camera lens connected nan back, pinch a 24-megapixel selfie camera. It whitethorn personification Apple’s A19 spot and, for illustration nan iPhone SE 4, is expected to battalion 8GB of RAM to tally Apple Intelligence AI features.