It's almost a tradition: each spring, the new iPhone models are starting to appear long before Apple even said a word. April and can bring filtered blankets, rumors of specification and the feeling that the “big secret” of the next iPhone is rather a secret of a polichinelle. But, although another model may seem, the truth is that The last filtration IPhone 17 Air Air He has something different: This shows us, perhaps for the first time so clear, how the design of smartphones in the future will really be.
IPhone 17 air looks: ultrafino, light and almost thin like its own buttons
The images disclosed these days place the air of the iPhone 17 next to the rest of the iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Pro. Apple has Everything is betrayed to the extreme slimming: 5.5 mm thick (more than additional millimeters in the camera bar) Make this model the best iPhone in history. What is funny is that this time, even the side buttons seem too large. Literally, They arrive almost on the edge From the iPhone 17 air model, and this puts in a tightening (never better) the continuity of the physical pimples and the USB-C port.
And of course, to reach this level, Apple had to make important decisions. He The air of the iPhone 17 will have a single rear camerain the style of the iPhone 16th. It will be enough for the most part, because it turned out to be a camera with excellent results that it costs them to differentiate them from a pro model. The battery will also be thinner, but thanks to what was learned in the 16th with the C1 chip, the duration promises to be very good. Regarding power, the last rumors indicate that it will have 12 GB of Ram and Chip A19. A powerful iPhone, with a camera two in one thanks to the 48 megapixels and its greatest attraction: a slimming that we have not seen for a decade with the iPhone 6.
Iphone 17 family right side
The start of the end for the USB-C and the physical buttons?
If something surprises to see the model so close, it's how USB-C and Physical Pimples They start to be parts that hinder such a beautiful design. And that makes sense if we remember a key fact: although the arrival of the USB-C at the iPhone has been forced by European legislation, the regulations really do not require mobile phones include physical ports. That's to say, Apple could completely delete the loading port As long as it guarantees that the iPhone can be wirelessly loaded and meets market interoperability standards, something you are already carrying out with Magsafe and the Qi2 standard.
Lower part of the iPhone 17 family
Thus, although the jump to an iPhone completely without ports has not yet happened, the truth is that nothing prevents Apple from doing this step at any time. The jump to a completely wireless iPhone has a logic, especially if we look at it from the point of view of the design and resistance to water or dust. We would win an internal space for the battery or the new componentsBut the challenges would also arise for users and manufacturers: transfer files, connect Carplay to the car or share the screen with a monitor would be exclusively wireless tasks.
Left side of the iPhone 17 family
Apple knows it. That's why, At least this year, the USB-C survives In the air of the iPhone 17, but everything indicates that it is a matter of time that you say goodbye. Does it look like a too large movement? Well … Apple Watch has no port, and the truth is that if Apple has already done so with the headphones …
Regarding the buttons, although it is true that they cannot be eliminated because we already have the righteous, it has been said that Apple will replace them with a haptic button. That is to say a room that does not move physically but produced A vibration on our finger simulating this movement. With this, we also earn more space on the iPhone. We already had this haptic button on the iPhone 7 and on the iPhone 8, as well as in the trackpad Mac. Therefore, it is uTechnology is that apple has beenSys said for a while, they will try to take it to the iPhone. Everything indicates that iPhone air is the model indicated for this.
With the production chain already underway and in September as a date marked in red, the iPhone 17 air emerges as The first model that anticipates the end of the physical ports and buttons. A transition generation that could be recalled as the first big jump to the real iPhone of the future. In the absence of Keynote, the models, cover and leaks allow us to intuitate in the way this future will be.
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