For some time now, Apple has been rumored to discontinue the iPhone Plus mannequin beginning subsequent yr, and change it with a tentatively known as iPhone 17 Slim. Because the identify implies, this ought to be record-breakingly skinny (at the very least for an iPhone), in the identical manner as Apple’s newest iPad Professional is its thinnest pill ever.
Immediately some extra particulars in regards to the iPhone 17 Slim have been leaked by Ming-Chi Kuo, longtime business analyst and purveyor of Apple-related rumors. He claims the iPhone Plus presently makes up solely about 5% to 10% of iPhone shipments, and that is why it is getting the axe.
The iPhone 17 Slim may have a 6.6″ display screen with 1260×2740 decision, and the A19 chip on the helm (notice that the iPhone 17 Professional fashions will use the A19 Professional). Its Dynamic Island space shall be much like that of the present iPhones, and its metallic body will use a titanium alloy that has a decrease share of titanium in it in comparison with the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max.
The iPhone 17 Slim can also be mentioned to sport Apple’s long-delayed in-house 5G chip, and… one single rear digicam. That is an enormous step backwards when it comes to cell developments, however Kuo underlines that Apple will “emphasize revolutionary kind issue design” with the iPhone 17 Slim “relatively than competing on {hardware} specs”. In different phrases, appears shall be every part with this one. Fashion over substance, if you’ll.
It is definitely an attention-grabbing gamble on Apple’s half, and one which will simply repay – in spite of everything, for it to achieve success it solely wants to tug in like 15% of all new iPhone gross sales, and that will nonetheless make it two or thrice extra profitable than the mannequin it is changing.
