On the iphone without ports we have been talking for more than five years. Some filters said that the iPhone 13 would be the first phone with touch ID on screen and without ports of any kind. The rumor has aged badly, very bad. After years of rumors, this 2025 is beginning to resonate again.
According to Gurman, the iPhone 17 Air is an Apple tool to wander the road to ultra -sized mobiles … and without ports. In this iPhone 17 generation everything would continue as until now, but the alleged iPhone without type C is still on the table. It is still a yearning.
Something is looking for Apple with this phone. The iPhone 17 Air is the most rumored Apple phone. A device below the pro variants, with only a camera and a characteristic that would make it differential: an ultra -launch design. Apple would like to use this phone as the thermometer to measure consumer’s interest in a aesthetics -centered product, raiding according to Gurman the road to an next generation without ports.
This radical change is not expected to arrive at some point in this year, nor is there even rumored date for this to happen. Despite this, all rumors point to the same direction: Apple thinks of an iphone without ports.
The advantages of the iPhone without ports. Dispense with the ports on a phone can have certain advantages. The first one has to do with its resistance to water and dust since, without ports, the doors open to a much more effective sealing system.
Space is also gained for components such as battery, speakers or larger cooling systems, and one of the components that most accumulate dirt is eliminated: the port itself.
Beyond this, giving up the port is a quite risky maneuver and with enough negative consequences.
What they did not tell us about giving up the port. The first inconvenience of dispensing with a port C is clear: complete dependence on wireless loaders. This type of loader, in addition to not allowing the phone to be used while carrying them, is by more inefficient definition at an energy and thermal level.
The wireless load generates more heat and causes the phone to suffer more, something that would harm the life of the battery in the medium term. Nor is it as comfortable as the cable, and requires more spectacular hardware (Magsafe) to load the phone. The wireless load speed (although there are already manufacturers that sell rapid loaders of this type), is also below the one achieved by cable.
I would also force to say goodbye to Carplay connectivity in every vehicle that does not support it wirelessly, as well as to C -type accessories such as external memories, wireless microphones receptors, type C headphones, etc.
The data transfer, already limited on the iPhone, would depend completely on Airdrop or Wifi, something quite unfeasible when the volume of files is of several gigabytes. In fact, the iPhone is one of the phones that creates heavier files by being the only one that records video in prore format, being particularly thought to be used next to a USB-3 external hard drive when they record in this format.
The EU cannot prevent it. According to Gurman, the constant pressure that the European Union exerts on technological ones would be delaying the arrival of the iPhone without ports. Europe was responsible for Apple to introduce type C and say goodbye to the lightning, and future regulations could complicate Apple this invention.
Despite this, at least today, there is no European law that prevents manufacturers from launching a mobile without ports. European legislation forces If a device has a cable loadyou must use USB-C. But it does not force the devices to have cable load at all.
Despite this, reflection is clear: a mobile without ports, at least with current technology, is a serious usability problem and a concept for which the market is not prepared. We have been fantasizing for years with him, seeing concepts that never go on sale and dreaming of a world without cables. It is not something that will happen in the short term.
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