Apple is predicted to launch an extra-thin mannequin when it unveils the iPhone 17 line-up subsequent yr. However precisely how skinny are we speaking? A brand new report seems to verify the determine is 6mm, which might make the iPhone 17 Air/Slim the thinnest smartphone Apple has ever launched.
The analyst Jeff Pu put out a analysis observe Monday supporting a current rumor concerning the system’s thickness. “We agreed with the current chatter of [a] 6mm thickness ultra-slim design of the iPhone 17 Slim mannequin,” he wrote within the observe, seen by MacRumors.
At 6mm, the Air would simply snatch the report beforehand held by the 6.9mm iPhone 6; the iPhone 16 is a relatively chunky 7.8mm thick, whereas the 16 Professional and 16 Professional Max are a positively overweight 8.25mm. Oddly sufficient, as MacRumors factors out, you will get a thinner iPad: the 13- and 11-inch variations of the most recent iPad Professional are simply 5.1mm and 5.3mm respectively. And the ultimate iPod nano got here in beneath 6mm too, not that it is a truthful comparability towards a full smartphone.
As ever with rumored Apple merchandise, the iPhone 17 Air has are available in for loads of criticism lengthy earlier than it’s even been introduced. There’s a way amongst pundits that 6mm wouldn’t be skinny sufficient to warrant an Air or Slim branding or the probably excessive price ticket; MacRumors itself wrote a narrative earlier this month complaining that the system is probably not a lot thinner than the iPhone 6, as if being thinner than the thinnest ever iPhone, which by the way had only a 4.7-inch display and vastly inferior parts and cameras, wouldn’t be an engineering feat price celebrating.
Conversely, a lot of the damaging dialogue on Reddit argues that slimming all the way down to 6mm goes past usefulness. In this thread:
- “Arduous no for me. Gimme thicker with large battery.”
- “Does it actually matter when most individuals will slap a large case and display protector on there? Give me a thicker telephone with higher battery life.”
- “I don’t suppose thinness or lightness is a large precedence.”
- “Why the obsession to go skinny?”
- “I by no means beloved the thinness of my iPhone 6s. It was simply too skinny.” [Editor’s note: the iPhone 6s was slightly thicker than the iPhone 6, at 7.1mm.]
We’re nonetheless a good distance off the launch of the iPhone 17 collection, and Apple might discover methods between from time to time to additional slim down the Air mannequin–maybe even rivaling the iPad Professional. However with half of the neighborhood complaining that it’s too thick and the opposite half complaining that it’s too skinny, it appears like Apple might need bought the steadiness about proper.
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