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 will likely 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 cellphone with thinner batteries with out sacrificing battery life.
Gurman additionally stories that Apple thought of making this the primary “completely port-free iPhone,” with all charging achieved wirelessly and all information syncing achieved through the cloud.
However, Apple determined to not go this route, at the very least for now, due partly to considerations about how European regulators — who’ve mandated that smartphone makers help USB-C connectors — may reply.
