There’s been a lot speak of digital camera modules within the iPhone rumorsphere recently: will the iPhone 17 handsets stick with the identical rear design because the earlier era, or will they change to both a skinny horizontal bar or a large band? A brand new leak provides us just a little extra readability concerning the new iPhone era arriving this fall.
Based on a set of CAD renders posted Sunday to X by the veteran leaker Majin Bu, there can be not one or two however three completely different digital camera module designs on present, which could clarify the sooner confusion. The 2 Professional fashions may have their triple rear lenses embedded in a thick band that runs throughout the again of the telephone, as predicted earlier this month by Jon Prosser. The usual iPhone 17, in the meantime, will stick to the identical design because the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus: two lenses stacked vertically, in a small matching module. (That design, when you’ll recall, was a change from the diagonal association on the iPhones 13 by means of 15.)
However the final mannequin within the set, the much-anticipated ultra-slim iPhone 17 Air, seems set to characteristic one more design. Rumors predict that the 17 Air may have only one digital camera lens on the rear as a way to cut back componentry and preserve down the dimensions and weight of the chassis. This single lens, based on the brand new renders (and corroborated by a potential prototype case leaked by the identical supply final month) can be contained inside a slim horizontal bar.
In different phrases, primarily based on the most recent data, all three of the theories in my opening paragraph are set to be right. (It’s a simple job, this prediction lark.) You can even see a rectangle under the digital camera array on the Professional fashions that’s anticipated to be made from aluminum, whereas the non-Professional fashions stick to glass throughout the again.
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