By: Nick Gambino
Apple has struggled in recent years to recapture the era of the yearly upgrade. There was a time when the new iPhone was a huge annual event and was cause for most users to upgrade to the new phone.
That time has come and passed. In recent years, Apple has not offered enough in their annual updates to make a compelling case for us to discard our trusted device and go out and buy a whole new phone. Add in that prices have skyrocketed and it’s just not worth it.
That doesn’t mean Apple is going to stop trying to convince us to constantly buy a new phone. That’s probably part of the plan for the rumored iPhone Slim possibly hitting the market in 2025.
As the name suggests, the iPhone Slim (not an official name, but it’s what we’re calling it) is a thinner version of the iPhone. If you’re familiar at all with the history of Apple and their hardware devices, you know they are obsessed with thinness. If they could offer an iPhone as thin as copy paper, they would do it in a heartbeat.
Luckily, this rumored iPhone isn’t going to be that thin. Tech prediction analyst extraordinaire Ming-Chi Kuo says it will sport a 6.6-inch screen with a single rear-facing camera. This suggests that they’re not looking to replace the Pro or the standard iPhone with this model.
With only a single rear-facing camera, the Slim must be just another in a line of alternative phones that Apple has tried to make a thing. They had the budget SE, the Mini, the Plus (don’t let the name fool you) and now – a way to make less features and thinness happen – the Slim.
Other rumors suggest this will not be a budget phone and may cost as much as $1,200. That means it will just be for those people who truly value a razor-thin smartphone. I don’t know who that is, but I’m sure they exist.
I for one am totally okay with the size of my iPhone 14 Pro, even with the case. And that’s the thing. How many people are really using a smartphone without a case? As soon as they glove that iPhone Slim it won’t be so slim anymore.
If the Slim does go through, we probably won’t hear about it officially for at least a year.
