From private robots to sensible house gadgets, there’s all the time an overabundance of rumors surrounding what Apple is engaged on subsequent.
Now, South Korea’s Sisa Journal, a weekly present affairs journal that has been publishing since 1989, reported on Friday that the tech large is releasing an “iPhone 17 Air” in September, and it’ll solely be 6.25mm thick.
If the rumors are true, this is able to make the iPhone 17 the thinnest iPhone ever and about 20-25% thinner than all obtainable iPhone 16 fashions, in response to MacRumors.
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The Sisa Journal additionally studies that the iPhone 17 “Air” won’t have a “Plus” model, and the “ultra-thin” gadget will doubtless begin at $899 within the U.S.
Earlier this month, a number of studies famous that Apple might also be including a minimum of two foldable gadgets to its iPhone and iPad lineup in 2026.
Whereas Google and Samsung have already got foldable gadgets (with Samsung main the market, transport over 10 million foldable telephones in 2023 out of the 15.9 million offered), Apple dominates the U.S. smartphone sector with 56% of the cellular market share, per Stat Counter.
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In November, studies surfaced that Apple can be engaged on a sensible house gadget to compete with Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Nest.
The iPhone 17 ‘Air’ will reportedly be about 2mm thinner than the iPhone 16 Professional
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