After reporting in January that Apple is including an “Air” choice to its iPhone lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is providing extra particulars concerning the upcoming slimmer iPhone.
The iPhone 17 Air will launch this fall, Gurman says — and just like the MacBook Air, it is going to be thinner than normal fashions, whereas combining high-end and low-end options. It apparently took a “herculean effort” for Apple engineers to create a skinnier telephone with thinner batteries with out sacrificing battery life.
Gurman additionally stories that Apple thought of making this the primary “fully port-free iPhone,” with all charging executed wirelessly and all knowledge syncing completed through the cloud.
Nonetheless, Apple determined to not go this route, no less than for now, due partially to considerations about how European regulators — who’ve mandated that smartphone makers help USB-C connectors — may reply.
