'iPhone 17 Air' Rumored to Surpass iPhone 6 as Thinnest iPhone Ever

[xaanaax]

Looking forward to bend tests

 

[scorpio vega]

But who is asking for it to be thinner?

Smaller as far as screen size, sure. But who asked for thinner?

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

I just want phones with rounded sides back again, I don't care about the rest of the specs at this point.

Please no! I just hope the square sides stay around until I upgrade to whatever my next phone will be. Then you can have your round sides back again. I liked my iPhone 8 Plus, but I was pretty happy to get rid of the round sides.

 

[NoGood@Usernames]

🥱

 

[urungus]

The thinnest Apple product ever is not the 5.1mm thick 2024 13-inch iPad Pro. The thinnest Apple product is the Polishing Cloth.

 

[blcamp]

Leave it at ~7.5mm and give me MORE BATTERY LIFE.

Pretty please.

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

The lightweight 17 will accompanied by Regular and Pro 17s with better battery life, so go for it! People who don't need the battery life, those who are steamed by the size and weight of the current generations, and those who just want something different, get to have an option cater to them.

 

[JohnC1959]

The lightweight 17 will accompanied by Regular and Pro 17s with better battery life, so go for it! People who don't need the battery life, those who are steamed by size and weight of the current generations, and those who just want something different, get to have an option cater to them.

Agree. And meanwhile it's Apple's chance to experiment with how people like this idea and try out some new tech that lets them make it thinner. Maybe some of that tech will go into a foldable so that it's not too thick when folded.

 

[jb310]

Thinner than the iPhone 6? I don't know anyone who looked at an iPhone 6 and thought "this phone is just unbearably thick," but I guess Apple truly thinks differently. 😬

 

[Adelphos33]

As rumored, the phone seems inferior to the base iPhone 17 (aside from screen size, which is just a preference)

 

[Plutonius]

I personally would rather have an iPhone with smaller dimensions (like the current SE or mini).

I have no issues with the thickness of the current iPhone.

 

[t0rqx]

Bendgate, heatgate and downg(r)ate?

 

[t0rqx]

Finally we're getting foldable iPhone

It will definitely fold...in your backpocket when sitting on it. iPhone 6 feature.

 

[UliBaer]

As a fashion gadget, this could actually work quite fine! ¯\_(シ)_/¯

 

[mansplains]

all of that innovation undone by putting an otter box case around it

When will phone enclosures simply be made of rubber and plastic so we can have aluminum and titanium cases to put them in

 

[mansplains]

Hopefully Apple will release an accompanying ad where they put a bunch of tools under a hydraulic press, and compact them into the thinnest iPhone ever.

 

[SanderEvers]

Insert the "But why?" meme here. I don't want a thinner phone. I want a phone with better battery life.

 

[Onshore]

Is anyone really wanting it to be thinner? One step forward two steps back with iPhone design these days.

I want it thinner and everyone I know that has an iPhone does also

 

[mathiasinthe314]

Complete with 3-hour battery life...

 

[giggles]

Told you so.

 

[Seanm87]

I’ll take a thinner lighter phone any day.

I think I this is likely to be the foldable phone anyway.

 

[johntherazz]

I’d love a thinner phone, but if they’re losing 25% of the volume you have to wonder what they’re jettisoning in order to achieve that. They can’t be shrinking *everything* down. I guess either they’re going to reduce the battery capacity or they’ve got a battery technology surprise in store for us

 

[williamkey123]

Yawn. I don’t want a phone that’s thin, I want one that is thick. Give me more battery and a form factor without a camera bump and I’d buy that in an instant.

 

[snipr125]

So the Macbook Air M2 got the proper Air redesign (i.e. thinner), now an iPhone Air is in development. The iPad Air now desperately needs it, because the M4 iPP is the current Air and Pro in one.

 

[Compote]

If the battery can hold, then why not. I loved my iPhone 6 and I need a refresh. But the SE4 will probably be out by then and I want it.