According to all the rumors of recent months, Apple plans to launch a new ultra-thin iPhone 17 model. Known as iPhone Air or iPhone Slim, today we have learned more details about what it will be like.
Apple plans to launch the thinnest iPhone in history, or at least that’s what experts say. Initially called iPhone Air, now it seems that in some other places they are starting to call it iPhone Slim, but the truth is that if iPhone Air seemed like a name that was unlikely to be true, the new iPhone Slim seems even less likely to be true. The fact is that the extreme thinness of this device, which It would be only 6mm thickrepresents a great challenge for the company that has had to make important decisions to achieve its manufacture.
The first of these decisions is get rid of the SIM tray. This is not something new, in the United States in fact only iPhones are sold without that tray, using only the eSIM, but outside the North American market this type of technology is not so widespread in operators, so it could be a problem for its international distribution. This same thing already happened with the Apple Watch, and it did not prevent Apple from launching it internationally, thus forcing operators to step up when their customers demanded that type of technology, so it could happen again.
The real problem would be China, where regulators do not allow the use of eSIM on phones because they require personal identification of the user, something that current eSIM systems do not allow as precisely as physical SIMs. Could Apple leave China out of the international iPhone Air/Slim market? It seems unlikely.
In addition to this issue, we find the 5G modem that it would use. Such a thin iPhone will have its weak point in the battery, so achieving maximum consumption efficiency will be essential. That is why it will use, according to rumors, its own 5G modemabandoning Qualcomm, which until now has been the supplier of this component. Apple has had many problems in the development of its 5G modem, to the point that it was even rumored to abandon the project. Will this new modem be reliable? According to experts, it will not have a speed as high as Qualcomm’s but it will be smaller and consume less. In addition, it will not have mmWave connectivity, so it will not be able to use the fastest 5G networks.
Finally there is the issue of the camera. If we reduce the thickness of the device to 6mm there is no room for the cameraso this element will have to stand out even more than in current models. Aesthetically this will be a challenge for Apple. We already have very thin devices like the iPad Pro, but the camera is nowhere near the quality that iPhones can offer. Another sacrifice for the benefit of extreme thinness? everything seems to indicate that they are too many efforts simply to have a very thin device. Will it be worth it?
Source: www.actualidadiphone.com
