iPhone rumors: News on the foldable, the thinness of the 17 Air & the 18 camera
Is an Apple foldable coming sooner after all? How thin will the iPhone 17 Air be? And which camera will the 18 get? An overview of the latest speculation.
An iPhone, here the standard model 16.
(Image: Sebastian Trepesch)
A number of new iPhone rumors have accumulated over the weekend. These concern both completely new form factors and the implementation of minor to medium changes to the iPhone 17 and 18.
Foldable and thinness
Well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has spoken out on Medium and emphasized that Apple still has a foldable in the planning phase. However, statements that it could go into mass production as early as 2025 subsequently turned out to be a mistranslation of his original Chinese article. However, it seems clear that the foldable, which is currently being considered as a folding phone, will be "ultra-thin" and will therefore no longer have a physical SIM. This in turn could become a problem on the Chinese market, where eSIMs are not yet widespread.
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Kuo believes that the iPhone 17 Air will be thinner than recently claimed in the rumor mill. He expects the thinnest part of the casing to be around 5.5 mm thick, which would only be slightly thicker than the 13-inch iPad Pro M4. Here, too, there will only be eSIMs. Apple's thinnest iPhone to date was the iPhone 6 at 6.9 mm. In the meantime, however, the devices have become slightly thicker again. The "iPhone 17 Air" would be between 30 and 33 percent thinner than the iPhone 16 (depending on the model). However, the camera "bump" is likely to be a bit bulky, although it is said to only have a single 48-megapixel camera.
Camera changes for iPhone 18 and 18
Meanwhile, another leak from a Chinese Weibo account deals with the main camera of the iPhone 17 Pro. Allegedly, its sensor is smaller than that of the iPhone 16 Pro – , but only minimally. Furthermore, all iPhone 17 Pro models are said to have three 48-megapixel cameras for the first time. Exactly how these are aligned remains to be seen.
For the iPhone 18, on the other hand, Apple is said to be using Samsung instead of Sony for the camera for the first time. This is according to a report in the Taiwanese electronics trade journal DigiTimes. It is allegedly a new type of three-layer stacked sensor that Samsung's components department is developing specifically for Apple. Until now, the Japanese company Sony has exclusively supplied Apple with image sensors for years.
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