Apple’s thinnest phone ever! iPhone 17 Air thickness revealed: 6.25mm

Mark Gurman revealed that Apple will launch a new iPhone 17 Air next year to replace the Plus model, forming a new Apple product line matrix with the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Among them, the iPhone 17 Air is an ultra-thin model, which is 2mm thinner than the iPhone 16 Pro . It is known that the thickness of the iPhone 16 Pro is 8.25mm, which means that the thickness of the iPhone 17 Air is 6.25mm, making it the thinnest iPhone in Apple’s history.

So far, the thinnest iPhone we have seen is the iPhone 6, which is 6.9mm thick. The iPhone 17 Air will break the iPhone 6 record.

Mark Gurman also revealed that the iPhone 17 Air will be equipped with Apple’s self-developed 5G baseband. This chip is smaller than Qualcomm’s 5G baseband. Apple hopes to use smaller and more integrated chips to save internal space and make way for the battery.

The report pointed out that Apple’s self-developed 5G baseband is code-named Sinope, which only supports four-carrier aggregation and does not support mmWave (millimeter wave) technology.

This means that Sinope will rely on the more widely used Sub-6 technology, which is also the technology used in the current iPhone SE. In contrast, Qualcomm’s 5G baseband products can support six or more carriers at the same time, and the download speed limit of Qualcomm’s 5G products is higher than that of Apple’s solution.

Although Qualcomm’s solution performs better, Apple still plans to use its own baseband. According to Gurman, Apple’s goal is to replace Qualcomm’s solution within three years and use its own 5G baseband.