Forget iPhone 17 Air: New Leak Says 2027 Model Will Have Upgrade Worth Waiting For

When Apple releases its 2025 range of iPhones — read exactly when that will be, here — there's one model which is drawing the most excitement. It's the super-slim iPhone which some are naming the iPhone 17 Air. But a new report suggests that it's the iPhone 19 Air, predicted for 2027, which could be the one to wait for.
This fall, iPhone 17, but a better display may be two years off.
The iPhone 17 Air, or whatever Apple's marketers decide to call it, looks like being a stylish phone, perhaps as thin as 5.5mm from front to back, not including the camera unit.
And such a slim phone might make you ask what the battery life will be like. You wouldn't be the first and though there have been competing answers to that question, nobody seems to think the Air will have exceptional battery life.
A new report on Korean website The Elec says that Apple seems to be looking into replacing the display technology with a different version of OLED that uses much less power.
'Apple is reviewing a plan to apply a new low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) organic light-emitting diode (OLED) to the iPhone series to be released in 2027 at the earliest. The core of the new LTPO OLED is whether to apply oxide (oxide) to the driving TFT. If the proportion of oxide increases, it can reduce power consumption,' the site says.
All of which is good news, except the snag is it's not due to arrive until the iPhone 19 series in fall 2027. And the decision hasn't yet been made, though that's a shorter wait until it is, and it may not make it to every iPhone model even then.
'Whether Apple will install LTPO OLED with oxide applied to the driving TFT on the iPhone model scheduled to be released in 2027 is expected to be decided in the third quarter of this year. The industry expects that Apple is likely to apply the new LTPO OLED to the thin 'Air' model among the 2027 iPhone series. Because the air model is thin, technology that can reduce battery consumption is especially necessary. The top pro lineup (Pro·Promax) is thicker than the Air model, so the need to apply the new LTPO OLED is relatively small,' it goes on.
Should you wait two years for a better screen on the Air? I don't think so, but it's good to know Apple's already working on improving it.

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