iPhone 17 Air’s shocking thinness revealed | Infinium-tech

The iPhone 17 Air is coming to replace the iPhone 16 Plus this year as the Plus model has been the best-selling iPhone since its launch. It remains to be seen whether it will do any better, but one thing is for sure: Apple wants to shock the world with its thinness.

According to a new report from Ming-Chi Kuo, renowned purveyor of Apple-related rumors, the iPhone 17 Air will, at its thinnest point, be just 5.5mm thick. That’s incredible.

This is the iPhone 16 Plus that the iPhone 17 Air will replace

This wouldn’t be the first time Apple has come out with something like this. The latest 13-inch iPad Pro is an impossibly thick 5.1mm. The iPhone 17 Air won’t be able to match it, perhaps because it’s much smaller on the two other axes, but it still comes very, very close. Of course, if this rumor is true.

We recently heard that the iPhone 17 Air will be 6.25mm thick, which is also impressive, but just barely. Then, a rumor from November pegged its side profile at between 5mm and 6mm, and this is a big bump in between.

Kuo also mentioned that the iPhone 17 Air will likely not have a physical SIM card slot at all, relying solely on an eSIM due to the ultra-thin design. This could cause problems in China where the market “does not currently promote eSIM-only phones,” Kuo writes.

They also expect the iPhone 17 Air to have a higher price and some components to be downgraded again due to the thinness. We have already heard that the device may come with a single rear camera like it is the iPhone SE. But it definitely won’t cost as much as the next one of them, that’s for sure.

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