Apple To Launch Thinner iPhone 17 'Air' as Step Toward Port-Free Design (macrumors.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/03/17/206213/apple-to-launch-thinner-iphone-17-air-as-step-toward-port-free-design
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/16/slimmer-iphones-without-usb-c-ports/
The new model will feature a 6.6-inch display with ProMotion scrolling, Dynamic Island interface, and a Camera Control button while measuring approximately 2 millimeters thinner than current models -- roughly a 20% reduction in depth, the report said. Despite its slimmer profile, the device will maintain battery life comparable to existing iPhones through redesigned display and silicon components. It will incorporate Apple's power-efficient C1 in-house modem chip but will retain USB-C connectivity, despite earlier internal discussions about eliminating ports entirely.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/16/slimmer-iphones-without-usb-c-ports/
Brazil will fine apple when they don't put an wire (Score:2)
Brazil will fine apple when they don't put an wireless power changer in the box so keeping usb-c is good.
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Just don't sell it there. Not that it really matters though because the [1]tariffs and other taxes on tech products [npr.org] in Brazil are so high that it's usually more economical to buy a flight to Miami, load up on technology products, and fly back to Brazil and bribe a customs agent than it is to buy them locally. If consumers there want one, which they almost certainly will because nothing says status symbol quite as much as a product that cannot be aquired commonly, there will be people who find ways to supply th
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/22/239860325/sony-explains-why-its-playstation-4-costs-1-845-in-brazil
Make another iPhone Mini please (Score:2)
I seriously don't care about thinner. My iPhone 13 Mini in an Apple leather case + leather Magsafe wallet is still my ideal combo after nearly 3.5 years. They'll get my Mini when they either pry it out of my cold, dead fingers or make another Mini I can replace it with.
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I do. Because I'm going to put the phone in a case, and the case will add a ton of thickness. So, thinner phone outside the case, thinner phone inside the case.
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Supposedly next year the folding iphone will be about the size of an iphone mini when closed.
Air Play? (Score:2)
So will they retroactively path Airplay to run over Bluetooth even in older vehicles? And will they fix their low volume bluetooth problem?
Paradoxically (Score:2)
> iPhone 17 'Air' as Step Toward Port-Free Design
A more/completely sealed iPhone would be "Less Air" and "No Air". Just sayin' :-)
Sooo elegant (Score:1)
Totally not ruined by the chain of dongles inevitably hanging off of every single Apple device I've ever seen used in the last 20 years.
Re: The iPhone 18 Air Crisp Pro will be even thinn (Score:2)
I think you meant the air ultra pro max plus.