Because before the launch of the iPhone 16, we were already seeing Alleged images of the iPhone 17, featuring a new horizontal camera layout. Today, a new rumor appears from a reliable source that would confirm it, although some of us haven't finished seeing it.
A significant design change is already underway on the iPhone. The current 3-camera module in a triangular layout debuted with the iPhone 11, and since then the phone's design has undergone few changes, just an increase in the size of the camera module or the switch to rounded edges to a flatter design. However, someone who isn't very familiar with the latest models would have a hard time differentiating an iPhone 11 Pro Max from an iPhone 16 Pro Max. Yes, there have been more changes from the normal iPhone, which went from vertical cameras to diagonal cameras and then back to vertical. It is precisely this latest change in the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus towards a module with vertical cameras that makes this rumor about the next 17 Pro is improbable in my opinion.
The change to this new lens arrangement on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus was justified according to Apple by the possibility of capturing spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro When recording video horizontally, having lenses like this- This allows the image to be. captured in three dimensions, achieving that effect of depth. Why then change the module now in the Pro models with a completely opposite layout? And not only that, The design of the iPhone 17 Pro would be almost identical to that of the new Google Pixeland that of many Android phones that will be launched this year. Apple generally does not design its phones in the same way as other brands, quite the contrary.
Will we have a new iPhone 17 Pro similar to the Google Pixel? This seems unlikely. If Apple finally decides to change the arrangement of the lenses to a horizontal module, what I have no doubt about is that It will not look like what we see in the pictures. which are created and published in different media.
