Apple is broadly anticipated to exchange the iPhone Plus variant subsequent yr with an ultra-thin iPhone 17. Previously few months, we’ve been calling it iPhone 17 Slim, iPhone 17 Extremely, and iPhone 17 Air as we tailored to what leakers mentioned about it.
Contemplating the latest iPhone 17 leaks, “iPhone 17 Air” is likely to be one of the best designator for the handset. The ultra-thin iPhone shall be a flagship system, however not one of the best iPhone 17 mannequin Apple can provide when it comes to energy and efficiency. Lowering the thickness of the handset will power Apple to make some compromises.
We’ll have to attend just a few extra months earlier than the primary renders and dummy items present the iPhone 17 Air design. Apple is not going to affirm something till September 2025, when the cellphone is anticipated to launch.
However the iPhone 17 Air is not going to be the one ultra-thin, high-end handset that comes out subsequent yr. Reviews say that Samsung’s redesigned Galaxy S25 Extremely shall be thinner than its rivals.
Samsung ought to launch the Galaxy S25 collection in early 2025, which explains why we’re already getting leaks about these flagships. The purported Galaxy S25 Extremely design appeared in renders lately, telling us that Samsung is fixing one of many design problems with the Galaxy S24 Extremely.
The Galaxy S25 Extremely will reportedly function rounded corners relatively than the oblong ones of the present mannequin. That may very well be a giant improve for usability when you ask me. I don’t like how the Galaxy S24 Extremely’s nook feels within the hand, and I can’t think about utilizing it for too lengthy.
The leak additionally claimed the Galaxy S25 Extremely will function a narrower physique and thinner bezels, making it barely extra compact and straightforward to deal with. Nevertheless, that design leak didn’t element the cellphone’s thickness.
Effectively-known Samsung insider Ice Universe is again with new claims in regards to the Galaxy S25 Extremely after leaking its design just a few days in the past. He mentioned on X the Galaxy S25 Extremely would be the thinnest and lightest cellphone of all “Extremely” flagships. He talked about the iPhone 16 Professional Max and the Pixel 9 Professional XL by identify.
The 2 units are the direct rivals of the Galaxy S25 Extremely. The Pixel 9 Professional XL is already available in shops. Google’s largest non-foldable Professional cellphone is 8.5mm thick. The iPhone 16 Professional Max isn’t out, so we don’t have the official measurement, but it surely must be about as skinny because the iPhone 15 Professional Max (8.25mm).
It might really be barely thicker than the present Professional Max. Apple has been rising the thickness of its telephones in recent times. The iPhone 13 Professional Max had a 7.65mm profile, which went to 7.85mm for the 14 Professional Max. The 15 Professional Max additionally acquired thicker.
With that in thoughts, something beneath 8.25 mm might assist Samsung declare its Galaxy S25 Extremely is the thinnest premium cellphone in shops. Let’s needless to say Samsung additionally has to pack a stylus contained in the Extremely.
I’d count on the iPhone 17 Air to be even thinner than that, although it’s unclear how low Apple can go. The iPhone 6 had a 6.9mm profile in 2014. A decade later, the M4 iPad Professional is 5.1mm thick. In the meantime, the 2020 iPhone 12 Professional Max was simply 7.4mm thick. The iPhone 16 design is a refinement of the iPhone 12.
Earlier than the iPhone 17 Air comes out, Samsung can have at the least half a yr to show the Extremely’s thickness right into a promoting level. That’s assuming the leaks are correct and these telephones are getting thinner.
Individually, based on rumors, Samsung has been shaving off each millimeter it will possibly from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 Slim, which means that Samsung is pursuing thinner telephones. The brand new Fold 6 variant ought to come out subsequent month, across the time the iPhone 16 collection hits shops.
