This week, we got our best look yet at how impossibly thin the rumored iPhone 17 Air will feel compared to the iPhone 16 Pro. But will it still impress when used with a case?

Case samples based on the dimensions of the iPhone 17 line have surfaced.

While we haven’t seen the side profile of an iPhone 17 Air dummy unit inside one of these cases, the idea does add a new dimension to the appeal of the ultra-thin phone.

Maybe the iPhone 17

It feels like the floodgates have opened with new iPhone 17 Air dummy models. Hands-on videos and frequent new photos have stirred a lot of excitement. Here are three reasons I expect the iPhone 17 Air to be a massive hit for Apple.

We’re probably 132 days away from the iPhone 17 actually being announced, yet it’s starting to feel like the iPhone 17 has been out for that long.

That’s probably because we’ve seen every design of iPhone 17 in various forms ranging from schematics to renderings for months. We’ve also seen cases , dummy units , dummy units in cases , and now dummy units that look so real that they could easily be mistaken for the real thing.

The latest iPhone

A leaker with a decent track record says that Apple will be switching to a much better type of integrated memory for the iPhone 18 line-up, offering three benefits over the current RAM spec.

It’s also looking increasingly likely that all iPhone 17 models will get 12GB of integrated memory to boost AI performance …

Apple last year boosted the RAM (really, integrated memory) to 8GB across the board, as the minimum required to power Apple Intelligence features.

It was initially suggested that the