iGEEKPHONE March 3 news, according to media reports, iPhone 17 series of new Air models, cut off the Plus, the new iPhone 17 Air flagship ultra-thin design, is the thinnest mobile phone in Apple history.
Blogger Jon Prosser reports that the body of the iPhone 17 Air is 5.64mm thick, while analyst Guo MingQI says it is 5.5mm thick, although Prosser and Guo Prosser’s figures differ, but confirm that the iPhone 17 Air is 6mm thick.
In order to achieve the ultra-thin design, Apple had to sacrifice some basic features, according to the news that the iPhone 17 Air cut the bottom speaker, ultra-wide Angle camera, and physical SIM card slot.
According to the report, the iPhone 17 Air has only one speaker, at the top of the handset, and the bottom hole is for the microphone.
Not only that, Apple also cut the ultra-wide-angle camera, the rear only a 48-megapixel main camera, support optical quality level 2x zoom.
In addition, the iPhone 17 Air only supports eSIM, and unlike the traditional physical SIM card, eSIM can be directly integrated in the motherboard of the device, through the remote download of the configuration file to achieve network connection, its biggest advantage is to save the internal space of the device.
In terms of industrial design, the iPhone 17 Air uses a horizontal camera module design, and the camera DECO on the back resembles a strip runway, which is the most changed model in Apple’s history.