The tech giant is expected to announce a new \u2018skinny\u2019 iPhone model at its main phone launch event on Tuesday\n<\/p>\n
The new model, heavily touted by supply-chain sources and local media in Silicon Valley, is set to be up to a third thinner than an existing iPhone 16 Pro with a high-end screen that\u2019s smaller than \u2018Pro Max\u2019 iPhones (6.9 inches) and significantly bigger than either the base model iPhone (6.1 inches) or \u2018Pro\u2019 iPhones (6.3 inches).<\/p>\n
But while it looks likely to match the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro\u2019s processor power, its thinness could mean lesser battery life than regular iPhones \u2014 the more space that smartphones have under their bonnets, the more battery can be squeezed in.<\/p>\n
The other significant compromise to the putative new iPhone Air could be just one rear camera, unlike the two rear cameras (wide and ultrawide) on regular iPhones and three (wide, ultrawide and telephoto zoom) on \u2018Pro\u2019 and \u2018Pro Max\u2019 iPhone models.<\/p>\n
Even with these limitations, Apple could be betting that a chunk of the market likes large-screen devices but doesn\u2019t like how bulky they\u2019ve become, stretching and misshaping jeans and jacket pockets with their weight.<\/p>\n
It may also be recalling how its MacBook Air grabbed attention for its sells design when Steve Jobs pulled it out of a brown envelope at the company\u2019s big product launch back in 2008. The MacBook Air went on to become the world\u2019s best-selling laptop with most rival manufacturers copying its design.<\/p>\n
A \u2018skinny\u2019 iPhone may also be a test-run for the release of a folding iPhone in 2026 or 2027, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, who has an unrivalled record at revealing Apple\u2019s future product plans.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, rival phone maker Samsung launched a \u2018skinny\u2019 version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone, calling it the S25 Edge. The phone is priced just above the base Galaxy S25 models, at \u20ac1,069.<\/p>\n
Pricing of the iPhone Air, which is tipped to have a 120Hz ProMotion screen, Apple\u2019s latest A19 chip and Apple\u2019s own efficient new C1 5G modem, is expected to be somewhere between a regular iPhone 17 (likely around \u20ac900) and an iPhone 17 Pro (likely around \u20ac1,200).<\/p>\n
The device is set to be revealed during Tuesday\u2019s iPhone 17 event, which is expected to showcase Apple\u2019s iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.<\/p>\n
Other things to watch during Apple\u2019s event include the euro-pricing levels following the slump in the value of the dollar. Apple, which uses the dollar as its base pricing unit, adjusts the prices of its products in Europe when it projects a medium-term currency trend. While the dollar\u2019s strength in recent years has seen higher prices across the EU, the US currency\u2019s recent weakness could mean cheaper retail prices for iPhones across Ireland and Europe from this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tech giant is expected to announce a new \u2018skinny\u2019 iPhone model at its main phone launch event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,898,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-8152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}