Apple is expect to launch an extra - thin modeling when it unveils the iPhone 17 line - up next twelvemonth . But exactly how thin are we babble out ? A raw report appears to affirm the figure is 6 mm , which would make the iPhone 17 Air / Slim the thinnest smartphone Apple has ever unfreeze .
The analyst Jeff Pu put out a enquiry note Monday supporting a late hearsay about the gimmick ’s heaviness . “ We agree with the recent yak of [ a ] 6 mm heaviness radical - slight design of the iPhone 17 Slim poser , ” he wrote in the note , seen byMacRumors .
At 6 mm , the Air would easily snatch the record antecedently hold by the 6.9 mm iPhone 6 ; the iPhone 16 is a comparatively chunky 7.8 millimetre compact , while the 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max are a positively obese 8.25 mm . strangely enough , as MacRumors point out , you could get a thinneriPad : the 13- and 11 - inch versions of the late iPad Pro are just 5.1 mm and 5.3 mm severally . And the final iPod nano came in under 6 mm too , not that this is a fair comparison against a full smartphone .
As ever with rumor Apple products , the iPhone 17 Air has come in for plenty of critique long before it ’s even been announced . There ’s a sense among pundits that 6 millimetre would n’t be thin enough to warrant an Air or Slim branding or the likely high terms tag ; MacRumors itself pen a story in the first place this month complaining that the devicemay not be much thinnerthan the iPhone 6 , as if being thin than the thinnest ever iPhone , which incidentally had just a 4.7 - inch screen door and immensely inferior components and cameras , would not be an engineering feat worth celebrating .
Conversely , most of the negative discussion on Reddit argue that slimming down to 6 millimeter goes beyond usefulness . Inthis screw thread :
We ’re still a long path off the launch of the iPhone 17 serial , and Apple may find ways between now and then to further slenderize down the Air model – perhaps even rivaling the iPad Pro . But with one-half of the community plain that it ’s too dense and the other half plain that it ’s too thin , it feel like Apple might have have the balance about right .
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