Apple iPhone 17 Air promises curious design changes, says New Leak, says Leck

Updated on May 5 with more iPhone 17-flight details and more focus on the USB-C connection and details on future air models in the following years.

If the iPhones are unveiled this autumn, there is one that causes a lot of sensation. This model, the iPhone 17 Air with the nickname, will be dragged super and only 5.5 mm thick. But a new dummy has emerged that shows a strange redesign of the USB-C connection. Here is the reason why it is so strange and comes at a time when interest in the new phone grows. And there is already a report on subsequent iPhone air models.

Let's start with it. The respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from TFI Securities has published a schedule for iPhones because he sees in the second half of 2027. There are some fascinating details, but here we stick to what it means for the air models or “iPhone 17 Slim”, as Kuo calls it.

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His belief is that the second half of this year will be launched the first model, the iPhone 17 Slim. We can be confident that this means in September, as this is the routine month for iPhone publications.

Then, in the second half of 2026, it will be the iPhone 18 slim in addition to several iPhone 18 hands. So far it is not surprising, although it is good to note that Kuo believes that the air will be a annual publication will be not less often as the SE, for example.

But when we get to what Kuo calls “2H27”, the comment is different. “IPhone 19 Slim (with a larger display compared to 18 slim),” Kuo describes the publication of this year. Apple regularly uses the same design of two years. The view that Apple is already planning a third air or slim with a larger screen will appeal to many – provided that the excitement that it has already created is justified before it has been officially recognized.

Back to this design upgrade with a possibly ugly in the USB-C base and the surrounding antenna band.

Earlier rumors about the 17 air were promising, like better performance than expected, indications of new colors and how its thinness could be remarkable compared to the rest of the area.

The latest dummies published by Leakers like this in a video by Apple Track are exceptionally detailed. The video compares the dummy of the 17 -air air with the current iPhone 16 Pro, and the difference in the thickness is striking -and the difference becomes even more pronounced if rumors via the iPhone 17 pro max design have been true.

However, the cost of this 5.5 mm design design could be carried out at the expense of symmetry based on the phone. This is due to the fact that, as can be seen from Macrumors, this thinness will not be without compromise. Dummy models … suggest that Apple has made some subtle adjustments to include internal components in stricter chassis. Above all, the USB-C connection on the lower edge is no longer at the front of the front from the front, “it indicates.

The dummy seems to show that the socket is closer to the back of the device than the front, which “probably takes up installation components within the housing,” claims the report.

Check out exactly in the USB-C connection and the central element to wrap the hollow USB-C connection when you connect it to be a little outside the middle and sit deeper than in the middle.

For many, this, to put it the least, will look a little. But let us put this in the right light. There is a limit of how thin a display can be while you still meet touch skills and so on. So it seems likely that the USB-C socket could not be closer to the screen. The only way to achieve the maximum thinness is to move it outside the middle. Add the fact that it is part of the phone that you literally only look at when you connect a cable, and it seems that this will probably not be a problem after all.

With regard to the symmetry, it is also worth noting that the poured dummy shows two perforations on both sides of the USB-C connection. In contrast to the iPhone 17 Pro Max, this is symmetrical, for example six holes on one side and on the other.

Two holes indicate that the speaker may not be as strong as on other iPhones, but we have to see. Note that the iPhone 17 Air is expected to do without the SIM card shell. This would only be the first iPhone to be sold outside the USA, only for Esim.

The interest in the phone is on a high, whereby 9to5mac could increase in the sales diagrams at the beginning in the sales diagrams. Then there is a “Just-Right” shield size of 6.6 inches that the iPhone can use more easily than is the case with the Pro Max iPhones, especially the latest model with its 6.9-inch display. After all, the new design, like the future, shows, fascinating customers, just like the iPhone X in 2017.

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