Subsequent yr Apple has lengthy been rumored to modify issues up in its smartphone lineup. The corporate will allegedly exchange the Plus mannequin with the iPhone 17 Air, an impossibly skinny machine that will solely have one single rear digicam.
The iPhone 17 Air has now entered the brand new product introduction (NPI) section, in accordance with a brand new report from provide chain sources. This is step one on the highway to manufacturing, and it includes Apple and its suppliers working collectively to evaluate the feasibility of the design and the manufacturing strategies that can be required to assemble the machine.
That is the iPhone 16 Plus that the iPhone 17 Air can be changing
Additionally they want to make sure that the deliberate approaches to meeting are sensible. Thus, small design modifications may nonetheless occur on this stage, in an effort to align with manufacturing capabilities (and/or prices). The NPI will then be adopted by a small-scale take a look at manufacturing line being arrange to make sure that the execution aligns with the planning.
So it is positively nonetheless early days for the iPhone 17 Air’s journey to actuality, however issues are shifting alongside within the path of its manufacturing, so it appears fairly clear that Apple has in actual fact given up on its Plus mannequin for subsequent yr. Let’s examine if the Air fares higher, sales-wise.