The iPhone 17 Air will not be able to install a physical SIM card because there is no room for it, reports The Information.
Prototypes of the iPhone 17 Air have a thickness of 5 to 6 mm. This led to several engineering problems.
Apple hasn’t figured out how to place the SIM card yet. And this is a big problem, since eSIM is not available everywhere, and some countries, such as China, require smartphones to have a physical tray for a SIM card.
The iPhone 17 Air will feature Apple’s own 5G modem for the first time. In terms of energy efficiency, it is better than solutions from Qualcomm, but it does not have mmWave 5G support, which means that the iPhone 17 Air will not be able to support the maximum available 5G speeds.
Additionally, Apple engineers have difficulty placing the battery and thermal materials into the device. Due to the thin body, we also had to sacrifice the second speaker from the bottom, and leave only one camera on the back.
At 6.9mm thin, the iPhone 6 is currently the thinnest smartphone Apple has ever released. (9to5Mac)
Source: www.iphones.ru
