A set of iPhone 17 dummies appeared final night time in a new leak from Sonny Dickson, who has an extended historical past of reliably leaking the nonfunctional variations of iPhones that case and accent makers use to arrange for the following 12 months’s crop of handsets. The photographs look very very like the renders we’ve seen in recent weeks, all the way down to the phone-spanning digicam bump that Apple is predicted so as to add to all however the usual iPhone 17.
Dickson contains pictures of the dummies from all sides. The sting-on pictures right here actually do job displaying how large of a distinction there can be between the rumored iPhone 17 Air and the others. The remainder of the iPhone line, which I’ve by no means regarded as particularly thick, seems completely beefy by comparability. Have a look:
The dummies seem to again up rumors that the iPhone 17 Air can 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 12 months. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterates that it’s going to have a 6.6-inch display screen in today’s Power On newsletter. Apple had thought of making it 6.9 inches, he writes, however “pulled the plug on that over fears {that a} skinny machine with an enormous display screen can be prone to bending.” He provides that the telephone will get slim bezels like 16 Professional telephones, a Dynamic Island cutout, and Digital camera Management button — which Dickson’s dummy photographs appear to assist.
The iPhone 17 Air is predicted to be as thin as 5.5mm, with a single digicam on the again 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 should 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 individuals take to the 17 Air, Gurman says Apple plans to do extra formidable issues with it, like make it the port-free iPhone that rumors have swirled about for years now. He says the corporate might deliver 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 much like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, however with a less-visible crease — by 2026. The Data made an identical folding iPhone prediction in June last year.