The iPhone 17 Air will have to attract buyers with its design, not with its performance…or price tag
Apple hopes the excitement of a new iPhone 17 Air model is reflected in device shipments.
The specs were nothing special as the phone will supposedly carry a 6.65-inch OLED panel with ProMotion and a dynamic refresh rate with a range of 1Hz-120Hz depending on the content being shown on the display. That’s a positive although all four iPhone 17 models are rumored to include a ProMotion display. But right away we can see that the phone will be powered by the plain Jane A19 application processor (AP). The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max will both be powered by the more capable A19 Pro AP.
While the iPhone 17 Pro models will sport 12GB of RAM, the highest amount of memory ever found in an iPhone, the iPhone 17 Air will be equipped with 8GB giving it the minimum amount of memory that will support Apple Intelligence. There is speculation that the phone will have one rear camera located in the top middle of the back panel. The starting price, at $1,299, tops the expected starting price of the iPhone 17 Pro Max by $100.