Apple will launch an iPhone 17 Air with a two-millimeter thinner design later this year, according to Gurman

Apple is developing a new, slimmer iPhone model that it refers to as iPhone Air, which will be launched along with the new line of iPhone 17 smartphones end of this year and will include a design two millimeters thinner than current iPhones, according to analyst Mark Gurman.

As was known in May of last year, the American technology company is working on a new thinner iPhone model to follow the line of its MacBook Air and iPad Air devices which feature a thinner and lighter design.

In this sense, Apple plans to launch this new thinner ‘smartphone’ at end of this year 2025, that will come from the hand of the new iPhone 17 line and that it will have a thickness two millimeters thinner than current models.

This was shared by Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman in his latest ‘Power On’ newsletter, where he detailed that the company is trying to offer the “thinnest to date” iPhone, whose name is expected to be iPhone 17 Air.

In this way, by presenting the slimmer body design, Gurman has indicated that it will serve as test model to advance the company’s future technologies, among which reference has been made to the foldable devices.

In addition, the analyst has also stated that the iPhone 17 Air will be the company’s first smartphone, along with the new iPhone SE model that will be presented in spring, which will incorporate the Apple internal modem codenamed Sinope. Following this line, it will also be equipped with a chip A19 “basic level” and a single lens camera system.

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With all this, in addition to the new iPhones, Gurman has also pointed out that, facing the news for 2025Apple will update products such as the iPhone SE, new entry-level iPads, Apple TV, HomePod, AirTag and Mac Pro.

Specifically, the new iPhoneSE model has a code name V59 and has been redesigned by removing the home button. Likewise, it will be compatible with Apple Intelligence’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) functions.

On the other hand, he has also announced that they will be launched new entry level iPads codenamed J481 y J482which will be powered by “faster” processors and will also incorporate the Apple Intelligence features.

Specifically, new versions of iPads are expected to add the Apple A17 Pro chip and increase their capacity to 8GB RAM memory since, according to the analyst, it is the “minimum necessary” to boost AI functions.

Regarding the new mac pro computerGurman has stated that it is being designed to incorporate a “high-end” Hydra processor, although the launch time is unknown.