iPhone 17 ‘Slim’ rumors are still floating around

Apple engineers are wrestling with wherever to enactment the SIM card, battery, and thermal materials successful the rumored iPhone 17 “Slim,” according to The Information. Although US iPhones haven’t had SIM cards for a mates of years now, they’re required to successful China, making it a tricky, but indispensable hurdle to get over.

The 17 Slim’s single, center-mounted camera volition reportedly beryllium surrounded by a rectangular bump that’s made of aluminum alternatively of glass. It besides says the iPhone Plus volition permission the lineup, thing that’s been rumored disconnected and connected alongside whispers astir this caller phone.

Other rumors astir the 17 Slim (or Air, oregon immoderate Apple names it) see that it volition diagnostic a 6.6-inch (or 6.55-inch) show and an aluminum frame. It could get a much energy-dense battery, which it volition request if it’s nether 6mm thick, arsenic The Information writes. That’s slimmer than the 6.9mm iPhone 6, Apple’s all-time thinness champ — a favoritism that famously came with certain... structural compromises. And each of that could travel astatine a cost; rumors person pegged its terms determination northbound of the $1,200 Pro Max.