Apple may have settled on iPhone 17 Air as the name for the rumored skinny iPhone that’s expected this fall, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. He writes that the phone will be “a testing ground for future technologies,

A new report says the iPhone 17 Air could be even thinner than we expected. Here's what we know about this future iPhone model.

The key phrase here is “thinnest part” which indicates that the iPhone 17 Air won’t achieve this remarkable thinness consistently. This probably just means that the camera will jut out a little bit, as it does on almost all modern smartphones, but it’s possible that this could refer to a tapered design of some kind.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that previous reports of an iPhone 17 Slim being 6mm are underestimating its thinness, at least for part of the device.

Macworld In a new Medium post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo outlines a few expectations for the iPhone models coming this year. Most of it corroborates previous iPhone 17 rumors and Kuo’s own previous statements,