Apple engineers are wrestling with the place to place the SIM card, battery, and thermal supplies within the rumored iPhone 17 “Slim,” in keeping with The Data. Though US iPhones haven’t had SIM playing cards for a few years now, they’re required to in China, making it a difficult, however vital hurdle to recover from.
The 17 Slim’s single, center-mounted digicam will reportedly be surrounded by an oblong bump that’s manufactured from aluminum as an alternative of glass. It additionally says the iPhone Plus will go away the lineup, one thing that’s been rumored on and off alongside whispers about this new telephone.
Different rumors across the 17 Slim (or Air, or no matter Apple names it) embrace that it’s going to function a 6.6-inch (or 6.55-inch) show and an aluminum body. It may get a extra energy-dense battery, which it’ll want if it’s below 6mm thick, as The Data writes. That’s slimmer than the 6.9mm iPhone 6, Apple’s all-time thinness champ — a distinction that famously got here with sure… structural compromises. And all of that might come at a value; rumors have pegged its value someplace north of the $1,200 Professional Max.
