With a calendar month to go until Apple unveils its unexampled iPhones for 2024 , the rumor John Mill has been whirring faster than ever . But the object of its most recent surmise , unusually , isnextyear ’s big launch , the iPhone 17 .
In late July , evidence emerged that Apple is work out on anew slim modelfor tardy 2025 and that this will replace the Plus model in the range of mountains . In other words , there will still be four handsets : 17 , 17 Pro , 17 Pro Max , and the fresh 17 Slim .
Whereas the current stock modeling range from a heaviness of 7.8 mm ( iPhone 15 and 15 Plus ) to 8.25 mm ( 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max ) , and the equivalent 17 - series handsets should be roughly the same , the slimline iPhone 17 model is expected to have a heaviness of just 5 mm . It ’ll be a major slimming - down workout , in other intelligence , and the first really substantial forcible redesign since the iPhone 12 in 2020 .
Most pundits , prompted by a starting ( and startling ) price tag end of $ 1,299 revealed by the leaker Ice Universe , have assumed the slim framework will sit at the top of the range , costing more even than the iPhone 17 Pro Max . But as the leaker and YouTuber Jon Prosser points out , this sit oddly with the leakedspecswe’ve find out about so far . The slim mannequin is expected , for representative , to get a non - Pro A19 processor and a unmarried tooshie - facing camera lens , neither of which propose it ’s targeted at the pro remainder of the grocery store .
In a lengthy but quite entertainingvideo , Prosser puts forward his dissertation : the slim exemplar is n’t stand for to be a premium performance theoretical account at all , but rather it will be marketed in the same room as the original MacBook Air , prioritise form over single-valued function . Most rumors say it will have weaker specs than the iPhone 17 Pro generation and a lesser television camera system , but will be slimmer and light . Is that deserving a premium cost ? Prosser does n’t seem to think so .
It should be noted , however , that the original MacBook Air was hardly loud , with a price come out at $ 1,799 without USB - A or an optical ride and a lower - end 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 GB of RAM and an 80 GB private road . But that was in 2008 .
Prosser is so trusted of himself , indeed , that he has wassail to knock off his principal completely if the slim iPhone 17 costs a penny more than the iPhone 17 Pro Max . even reader will recall that “ Prosstradamus ” once made a like betinvolving his eyebrows , and had to pay out . He also once predicted that Apple wouldrebrand Io as iPhoneOS , so do n’t by any substance usurp he is always right .
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