- A practical video shows how an iPhone 17 manual unit compared to other iPhone 17 models
- Air iPhone 17 is significantly thinner than the rest of the iPhone 17 series
- It’s so slim that there are concerns that he could easily bend
The iPhone 17 air is going to be thin – it goes almost without saying – but a new practical video with a dummy unit may offer our best sense to what extent.
Unbox Therapy (via 9TO5MAC) shared a video in which they compare what is a dummy unit of the iPhone 17 at iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro Max, and it is just to say that they are seduced by the way the air is thin.
They say that with its 5.65 mm thickness, he feels “futuristic” and makes that the iPhone 17 Pro Max (which would be 163.04 x 77.59 x 8.75 mm) feels “outdated” in comparison.
This dummy unit of the iPhone 17 is also much thinner than the failed iPhone 17 unit of 149.62 x 71.46 x 7.96 mm.
Overall, they seem seriously impressed, which suggests that it is so thin that most people do not care about compromise – as there would be only one rear camera – once they feel it in their hands.
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Concern for bending and battery
However, the phone being quite as slim also leaves them concerns, with therapy at the sub-box noting that bending could be a concern. They are kidding you shouldn’t put it in your back pocket and say “I don’t know how they are going to make it strong enough.”
Since Apple has already traveled “Bendgate” with the iPhone 6, we think that doing the air pressure of the iPhone 17 would be a priority for the company. So I hope that it will not be easily leaning, but it will be interesting to see if and how Apple succeeds.
Unbox therapy has also noted that “if it does not look in two just looking at it, then the battery life will be the next problem”, adding that “this thing will have a horrible battery life” because of its thin.
We are a little less worried about this, since the air of the iPhone 17 would be used a high density battery, so it might not need space for a decent capacity. However, there are probably limits to what Apple can manage there. But if most people are also seduced by the slimming of the phone that the therapy in the box seems to be, they could be able to bear almost any problem resulting from its design.
