A set of iPhone 17 dummies appeared final night time in a brand new leak from Sonny Dickson, who has a protracted 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 photographs look very very similar to the renders we’ve seen in current weeks, right down to the phone-spanning digital camera bump that Apple is predicted so as to add to all however the usual iPhone 17.
Dickson contains photographs of the dummies from all sides. The sting-on photographs right here actually do an excellent job exhibiting how large of a distinction there shall be between the rumored iPhone 17 Air and the others. The remainder of the iPhone line, which I’ve by no means considered particularly thick, appears to be like completely beefy by comparability. Have a look:
The dummies seem to again up rumors that the iPhone 17 Air shall be a 6.6-inch telephone, positioning it in between the 6.3-inch iPhone 16 Professional and 6.9-inch 16 Professional Max of this yr. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterates that it’s going to have a 6.6-inch display screen in right now’s Energy On publication. Apple had thought-about making it 6.9 inches, he writes, however “pulled the plug on that over fears {that a} skinny system with a large display screen can be vulnerable to bending.” He provides that the telephone will get slim bezels like 16 Professional telephones, a Dynamic Island cutout, and Digicam Management button — which Dickson’s dummy pictures appear to assist.
The iPhone 17 Air is predicted to be as skinny as 5.5mm, with a single digital camera on the again just like the iPhone 16E. Gurman writes that the telephone will get a mixture of high-end options, like a 120Hz ProMotion show, and low-end ones, like an Apple A19 chip as an alternative of an A19 Professional. Regardless of its thinness, he says it can have battery life on par with different iPhones. Lastly, he expects the telephone will price “roughly $900,” or about what the iPhone 16 Plus begins at now.
If folks 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 could carry 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 telephone — one just like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, however with a less-visible crease — by 2026. The Info made an analogous folding iPhone prediction in June final yr.
