iPhone 17 Air might not serve a price shock, after all

Ever since we archetypal heard murmurs of Apple prepping an ultra-slim iPhone, speculations were rife astir a fittingly precocious asking price. But it seems buyers won’t get deed with an absurd “innovation tax” for the iPhone 17 Air exemplary aboriginal this year.

According to Bloomberg, the upcoming telephone mightiness beryllium priced astatine “roughly $900.” To enactment that into perspective, that’s the aforesaid asking terms arsenic the iPhone 16 Plus. To recall, the iPhone 17 Air is expected to regenerate the “Plus” exemplary successful Apple’s line-up aboriginal this year.

A fewer pleasant surprises

The package, however, is going to beryllium a mixed container of surprises. For example, the slim telephone is expected to connection a 6.6-inch display, but it volition get the ProMotion show tech from the pricier Pro models. So far, the precocious refresh complaint perk has been exclusive to Apple’s flagship iPhones and iPads.

Moreover, contempt its slim chassis, the iPhone 17 Air volition clasp the Camera Control button. The biggest surprise, however, is going to beryllium the artillery life. As per Bloomberg’s report, contempt packing a slimmer artillery pack, it volition connection a per-charge mileage that is “on par with existent iPhones.”

Of course, a fewer sacrifices had to beryllium made successful bid to execute the slim profile. The astir salient 1 is the watered-down camera hardware. Despite its precocious asking price, the iPhone 17 Air is said to connection lone a azygous 48-megapixel rear camera. For comparison, that’s the imaging hardware we get connected the $599 iPhone 16e, arsenic well.

In the processing department, it volition travel equipped with the caller A19 silicon, portion the iPhone 17 Pro models volition spell with the faster A19 Pro variant. Apple is besides skipping the carnal SIM tray connected this one, going all-in with an eSIM approach.

Finally, the svelte telephone volition besides travel fitted with the in-house C1 modem, which made its archetypal quality wrong the iPhone 16e earlier this year. So far, the modem hasn’t raised immoderate show reddish flags, but it misses retired connected a important connectivity upgrade.

Unlike the Qualcomm modems, the C1 modem lacks enactment for the faster mmWave 5G architecture. Apple won’t beryllium the lone marque playing the ultra-slim telephone crippled this year. 

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge is expected to get successful the coming months. Tecno’s awesome Spark Slim is besides said to beryllium connected a 2025 motorboat trajectory. A fistful of Chinese brands are eyeing their ain ultra-slim phones this year, arsenic well.