Apple reportedly considered building the iPhone 17 Air without ports

After reporting in January that Apple is adding an “Air” option to its iPhone lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is offering more details concerning the upcoming slimmer iPhone.

The iPhone 17 Air will launch this fall, Gurman says — and just like the MacBook Air, it is going to be thinner than customary fashions, whereas combining high-end and low-end options. It apparently took a “herculean effort” for Apple engineers to create a skinnier telephone with thinner batteries with out sacrificing battery life.

Gurman additionally experiences that Apple thought-about making this the primary “utterly port-free iPhone,” with all charging finished wirelessly and all knowledge syncing achieved by way of the cloud.

Nonetheless, Apple determined to not go this route, at the least for now, due partly to considerations about how European regulators — who’ve mandated that smartphone makers support USB-C connectors — may reply.