The hypothesis of an iPhone 17 Air seems increasingly clear. Apple would like to offer a much thinner model than the current iPhones, by cutting back on components in order to make room. It is thus rumored that the smartphone would be satisfied with a single photo sensor on the back, probably a wide angle of 48 mpx. It would also be entitled to an A19 chip (not the Pro version however) under a 6.6-inch screen.
Apple and Samsung neck and neck
All this would allow the manufacturer to drastically reduce the thickness of the device. We are talking about 6.25 mm, which would make the iPhone 17 Air one of the thinnest smartphones on the market: it is 2 mm less than the iPhone 16 Pro (8.25 mm) and 1.55 mm less than an iPhone 16 (7.8 mm). The record for the thinnest iPhone is still held by the iPhone 6, at 6.9 mm.
To find something thinner, you have to look to folding smartphones: the Honor Magic V3 measures 4.4 mm when unfolded!
The Korean site Sisa Journal "confirms", so to speak, the 6.25 mm thickness of the iPhone 17 Air. More interestingly, the site's sources indicate that the price of this model will be in the same range as the iPhone 16Plus, which starts at €969 ($899 in the United States). The Plus models, which the iPhone 17Air would purely and simply replace, would have the greatest difficulty finding buyers.
Sisa Journal also explains that Apple will not be the only manufacturer to slim down its smartphones. Samsung would also like to impose a slimming cure on its Galaxy! The Galaxy S25 "Slim" would also display a thickness of around 6mm. We will possibly have confirmation of this at the next Unpacked event, in January.
Source: MacRumors
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