{"id":356201,"date":"2025-03-17T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=356201"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:32:56","slug":"apple-reportedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/technology\/apple-reportedly\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly considered building the iPhone 17 Air without ports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">After reporting in January that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/12\/apple-may-add-an-iphone-air-to-its-lineup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple is adding an \u201cAir\u201d option to its iPhone lineup<\/a>, Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-03-16\/apple-iphone-17-air-foldable-iphone-details-ai-crisis-to-haunt-top-100-event-m8bl3a9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offering more details<\/a>&nbsp;about the upcoming slimmer iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The iPhone 17 Air will launch this fall, Gurman says \u2014 and like the MacBook Air, it will be thinner than standard models, while combining high-end and low-end features. It apparently took a \u201cherculean effort\u201d for Apple engineers to create a skinnier phone with thinner batteries without sacrificing battery life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gurman also reports that Apple considered making this the first \u201ccompletely port-free iPhone,\u201d with all charging done wirelessly and all data syncing accomplished via the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Apple decided not to go this route, at least for now, due in part to concerns about how European regulators \u2014 who have mandated that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/10\/25\/apple-exec-says-future-iphones-will-comply-with-eus-usb-c-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smartphone makers support USB-C connectors<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 might respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/technology\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/technology\/\">More Tech News Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Techcrunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reporting in January that&nbsp;Apple is adding an \u201cAir\u201d option to its iPhone lineup, Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman is&nbsp;offering more details&nbsp;about the upcoming slimmer iPhone. The iPhone 17 Air will launch this fall, Gurman says \u2014 and like the MacBook Air, it will be thinner than standard models, while combining high-end and low-end features. It apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":356202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/17-air.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356203,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356201\/revisions\/356203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}