It has been 5 years since Apple gave us a considerably new digicam island design for the iPhone. When the iPhone 11 Pro and Professional Max dropped in 2019, they launched the then-new ‘range high’ island design, with a triple-lens triangular array positioned inside a sq. island within the high left nook of the cellphone’s rear panel. As we speak’s iPhone 16 Pro and Professional Max follows basically the identical format, albeit with some delicate styling tweaks.
But when rumors this week are to be believed, this growing old design could possibly be set to alter for subsequent 12 months’s iPhone 17 sequence. In accordance with long-time (and sometimes dependable) tipster Digital Chat Station, the iPhone 17 could characteristic a digicam island within the form of a horizontal bar throughout the highest of the rear panel, very like the Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL. The rumor stems from a picture of a metallic chassis body, alleged to have come from an iPhone components provider, which clearly reveals a reduce out for a digicam island that is been nicknamed a ‘strip runway’ design. Digital Chat Station additionally provided a render of what an entire iPhone 17 may appear to be with this horizontal digicam island form, although at this stage the lens format is pure hypothesis. The tipster goes on to say that many new Android telephones may undertake the same digicam island design subsequent 12 months, although once more, we have no proof to again that up.
If Apple does certainly change to the ‘strip runway’ digicam island, it’d definitely add a much-needed aesthetic replace to the stagnating iPhone design. Nonetheless, it is uncertain {that a} Apple would reconfigure the digicam array solely to alter the iPhone 17’s look. The place of the person rear-facing digicam modules is dictated by different parts inside the cellphone’s physique. Transferring all three digicam modules to a strip on the high may merely be a facet impact of altering the form of the cellphone’s logic board, or making further area for a bigger battery.
Regardless of the reasoning, we’re most likely going to have to attend a number of months earlier than we get extra definitive leaks or suggestions that verify whether or not or not the iPhone 17 can have a radically completely different digicam island design.
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