Apple considered eliminating the load ports from the next iPhone 17 Air

Those of Cupertino are working on the development of a new thinner iPhone model that, as it was announced in January, will be an Air version that will be launched at the end of this year along with the new family of ‘smartphones’ iPhone 17, and will incorporate a design two millimeters thinner than the current models.

In this sense, Apple continues to advance in the development of this new iPhone 17 Air that, with name in Code D23, will introduce developments that are intended to extend to the rest of its devices in the future, As is its fine design, performance optimization to maintain battery autonomy and the possibility of eliminating load ports.

This has been shared by Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, in his latest informative newsletter

For this, Apple will use new components and will take the opportunity to approach new design standards, which includes a screen of around 6.6 inches, thin edges, the camera control button and, despite the fine design, a battery life that will remain at the same time as the current iPhones.

Specifically, as explained by the company, although usually a finer design requires sacrificing autonomy, Apple’s development teams are working on a screen redesign, silicon components and ‘software’ to make the device more efficient and, therefore, last the battery.

Following this line, Gurman has also pointed out that Apple has had to limit some characteristics to be able to reduce the thickness of the phone by about two millimeters. This is based on equipping the ‘smartphone’ with a single 48 MP camera, using the standard A19 processor instead of the PRO and eliminating the physical slot for SIM cards.

However, the new iPhone 17 Air will have the C1 modem recently released with the launch of the 16E iPhone, which adds energy efficiency to the ‘smartphone’ to allow its use with yield even with the compact design.

Delete load ports

With all this, Gurman has pointed out that, among the ideas that the company shuffled to achieve the most fine ‘smartphone’ design possible, An option was to eliminate the use of load connectors, such as USB-C, and bet on wireless load and cloud data synchronization.

This idea is similar to that already used by the company in its Smart Watches Apple Watch, which are loaded wirelessly in all its versions. However, Apple has ended up dismissing this option since it would be controversial for users and European legislation, so it will use a USB-C port.

Specifically, the analyst recalled that with the changes that Apple made for the use of USB Lightning and USB-C ports on the iPhone, complaints have already emerged by customers. In addition, he also pointed out this change in the load method could go against the regulators of the European Union, which forced the use of the USB-C charger for all mobile devices.

Despite all this, this is the address that Apple intends to continue their future devices since, according to technological executives in statements to Gurman, In the event that the new iPhone 17 Air is successful, Apple will try to make iphones without ports, as well as design more ‘smartphones’ models with a finer body.

In this way, Gurman has pointed out that Apple will use the technologies applied in the iPhone 17 Air to create future models of thin ‘smartphones’, including folding versions in shell format, similar to the Galaxy Z Flip of Samsung.

In this case, Apple’s folding will use the battery, screen, modem and processor advances in the iPhone 17 Air. It is also expected that this folding smartphone of the American technology arrives next year 2026.

With all this, the price of the iPhone 17 Air will consider around $ 900, according to the sources mentioned, which equates it to the price of the current iPhone 16 Plus.