You have to recognize Apple than the range iPhone Presented this month is the first, in quite some time, which has meant a revulsive for the popular smartphone. From the iPhone xreleased in 2017, which said goodbye to the Home button and brought the screen almost without edges, the improvements had been incremental. With the iPhone 12Apple returned to the flat edges, with the iPhone 14 The Dynamic island and with him 15 The titanium in substitution of aluminum, which has returned with the iPhone 17. These present important changes in the materials and in the design that clearly differentiates them from previous generations, but they have also brought A new form of form with the iphone air ultrafinethe thinnest smartphone that the company has manufactured in almost 20 years. But the thing does not end here and what we will have next year is a folding iPhone.
Rumors have been insistent for many months and now we have new information about how this device will be Mark GurmanBloomberg Apple specialist. As published in the middle, the first folding iPhone of the company It will be inspired by the iPhone 17 Air released this year, following a similar design philosophy.
This year, Apple has replaced the model Plus of its catalog by the Air variant, focused on thinness and portability. Gurman says that The folding iPhone, scheduled for 2026, will be ‘Super Delgado’which would mean an important design achievement for Apple.
‘They tell me more and more frequently than users They must imagine two titanium iPhone Air placed next to each other. In other words, it will be super thin and a design achievement‘, says the analyst in his Newsletter Power On.
That means that it should be quite thin, although potentially thicker than a Pixel 10 Pro fold (10.8 mm) or a Galaxy Z fold7 (8.9 mm), since an iPhone Air has a thickness of 5.6 mm. According to the supplies chain analyst sources Ming-Chi Kuoanother reputed news source on Apple, the folding will be much finer when deployed, possibly reaching only 4.5 mm.
Bloomberg already published that Apple has started with the iPhone 17 A three -year cycle in which it will make great changes in the design of the iPhone. Pro models have renewed their rear with a protuberant cameras module in the style of the Pixel of Google and the new Air model puts the focus on thinness as the main argument of sale. Other information have indicated that Apple ‘is rethinking its hardware in a way we didn’t see for years”.
With the launch of the iPhone 17 Air, the company seems to want to show the design course that will mark the future generations of iPhone, A new trend that will also apply to its first folding model.
Regarding price and availability, Gurman states that the folding iPhone It will cost at least 2,000 dollars And most likely it will be presented together with the iPhone 18 series in September 2026. The devices, however, would reach stores a few months later and not a few days later as usual after the presentation of a product.
According to Gurman, Apple is riding a test production line in Taiwan and plans to manufacture its folding iPhone mainly in Chinawith a possible part of the production in India.