'iPhone 17 Slim' Said to Feature 6.55-Inch Display

[Smith288]

They are complaining it’s too heavy.

Who's they?

 

[Gengar]

Slim? Sounds like a ploy to cut battery life from the Plus models...

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

Slim? Sounds like a ploy to cut battery life from the Plus models...

Just ditch the plus models and bring the minis back

 

[klasma]

Who's they?

🔎 iphone "too heavy" site:forums.macrumors.com - Google Search

www.google.de

 

[sleeptodream]

Pretty please bring back rounded edges Apple 🥺 Maybe alternate every ~4 years so fans of either style could be satisfied? The 16 will be year 5 of the square design and it’s not practical to keep an iPhone 11/pro going for much longer

 

[sleeptodream]

I DONT WANT SLIM, I WANT A THICK ASS BATTERY

Then get the already thick ass Pro Max? It’s good to have more options, people have different sized hands and amounts of muscle mass

 

[blairh]

I seriously doubt it will be called an iPhone ‘Slim’.

 

[tonmischa]

I don't need SLIM.
I need MINI.

EDIT: It's funny when someone disagrees with what I need. Do you know me? Are you living my life?
Maybe after a car accident I lost one hand and have limited functionality in the other one? So maybe I am not ABLE to hold a bigger phone? Did you think about that?

 

[sebastianatol]

They might slim the width of the vanilla phones to match the new aspect ratio of the upcomming Pro models.

 

[tipoo]

The 15 Plus battery life was too good, started eating into Pro sales with higher sales prices. That's why the 16 Plus is getting the only battery regression in the line, and the 17 appears to be going further in this direction nerfing its battery life.

 

[David1964]

They are complaining it’s too heavy.

They need a gym membership then, if they think phones are too heavy 🙄 It's so pathetic.

 

[David1964]

I'm more interested in whether or not the 17 is the generation that finally moves the non-Pro phones to 120 Hz. I know that was predicted in the "timeline", but I want to see a solid rumor about it.

Can't see that happening all the while Apple call it "ProMotion".

 

[fakestrawberryflavor]

I'm fairly sure most of us here are currently OK with how thick iPhones are right now right?

Not at all. I imagine they mean slim by being narrow and tall, like the Sony Xperia series. Which would be amazing! Way easy to hold in one hand

Like this

 

[Andres Cantu]

Gotta give users a large display or a big battery, but not both, or it cannibalizes some sales of the larger Pro.

I wonder if the smaller 17 will also be slimmer?

 

[jingbugle]

Need to upgrade iphones has come down for a while.

 

[AAPLbuyback]

Why thinner? I don't hear people complaining about their phone being too thick, they're frustrated the battery dies so quickly...

I think Apple probably knows more about its customers than your anecdotal data.

 

[smithc]

All I want is a model without a camera bump. Please.

 

[bobmans]

This likely means the lineup will be
iPhone 17 "Slim"
iPhone 17 Pro
iPhone 17 Pro Max

with the "Slim" being priced the the same as the current Plus and the regular iPhone model scrapped.

 

[erikkfi]

So there'll be a "Slim" model with a smaller display... but it'll still be larger than the base iPhone? Clear as mud.

 

[VisceralRealist]

Can't see that happening all the while Apple call it "ProMotion".

But Apple does regularly bring features from the Pro phones to the base models, just on a delayed schedule. I don't think the base models are locked in at 60Hz forever just because they decided to call 120Hz "ProMotion".

 

[TheShadowKnows!]

Deeply disappointing.

Apple may have lost its moho, that inevitably will call for a restructuring of its corporate leadership -- one guided by technology -- not bean counters that belong on a corner, to never be heard unless spoken to.

[Let us remember that great, trail-blazing companies from the past just vanished and are now a mere shadow of themselves -- Apple with this leadership is far from immune.]

Just my view.

 

[Unity451]

Why? Is there really that much of an opportunity of people looking for this?

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Everybody should know: you don't mess around with Slim. Tell 'em Mr. Croce...

If you don't know this tune... wait for it.

 

[ipedro]

Reminds me of the “iPhone Math” which turned out to be iPhone + written as iPhone Plus.

The Mandarin word for “slim” or “thin” is shòu which can easily be confused for the word shòu which means “endure”.

Calling it: iPhone Ultra, built to be rugged or to “endure”.

 

[sebastianatol]

Everybody should know: you don't mess around with Slim. Tell 'em Mr. Croce...

If you don't know this tune... wait for it.

Yah, messing around with slim is shady!