”Apple is planning big changes for its iPhone 17 range. While most rumors have focused on the expected iPhone 17 Air, a new report describes “significant design changes” coming to the entire lineup, particularly the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. What's coming for the iPhone 17 and 17 ProIn a new report that focuses largely on the iPhone 17 Air, new details have been shared about what will happen to the rest of the 2025 iPhone 17 lineup.Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu write for The Information:Apple's other iPhone models will also undergo significant design changes next year. For example, they will all switch to stainless steel and titanium aluminum frames, said one of the people.The rear of the Pro and Pro Max models will feature a new part-aluminum, part-glass design.Instead of the customary 3D glass, the top of the back will have a larger rectangular camera hump made of aluminum. The bottom half will remain glass to enable wireless charging, two people said.There are several key details to note here:the entire iPhone 17 range is moving to an aluminum frame, for reasons unknownthe iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max feature larger “rectangular” aluminum camera bumpsWireless charging may be affected by the move away from an all-glass backUntil now, we haven't heard much about Apple's plans for the iPhone 17 range outside of the Air model. These details provide an excellent starting point for the new year.Questions raised by iPhone 17 design changesAlthough today's report provides some interesting information, it also raises several questions.What is For instance, why did Apple decide to use just aluminum for the frames of its iPhones? The switch to titanium didn't happen that long ago, and has so far been presented as a high-end differentiator for Pro models.How many times larger and “rectangular” are the camera bumps on Pro models? Are there other design changes to come that we don't yet know about? The report seems to imply that there's more to come.
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