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Apple’s Pricey ‘iPhone 17 Slim’ May Have Only One Camera By Jesse Hollington A special thanks to iDropNews for republishing permission. Images provided by iDropNews. Be sure to visit them at idropnews.com If rumors of Apple releasing an expensive ultra-slim iPhone that focuses more on form than function aren’t already getting strange enough, a new analyst report is adding an even more unusual twist, suggesting that Apple’s most expensive 2025 iPhone model could feature only a single camera. That little tidbit comes from none other than Ming-Chi Kuo, who shared a Medium post today corroborating most of what we’ve heard about the so-called “iPhone 17 Slim” while adding that it will “focus on design over hardware specifications” — to the point of having only a single rear camera. Yes, you read that right. If this latest report is to be believed, Apple will produce an iPhone in 2025 with a higher price tag than the iPhone 17 Pro Max with only a fraction of the capabilities of Apple’s traditional flagship. The consensus among leakers and analysts who have shared information about the “iPhone 17 Slim” is that Apple plans to cut every corner to produce an impossibly thin iPhone to rival its M4 iPad Pro. Around the same time, Apple is also expected to release an M5 MacBook Pro with a similarly thin design. There’s only one problem with all this: the M4 iPad Pro is the most powerful iPad Apple has ever made. It’s the first piece of Apple kit to feature that company’s latest and greatest M4 chip—we won’t even see that appearing in Macs until this fall, at the earliest. Rumor also has it that the ultra-thin M5 MacBook Pro will be on the higher end rather than an underpowered luxury device like the original MacBook Air. With the M4 iPad Pro, Apple seems to be trying to prove that svelte design and powerful performance aren’t mutually exclusive. Granted, it sacrificed a camera to get there, but that’s hardly a loss on an iPad. Reducing a modern flagship smartphone to a single camera borders on the absurd. Most of the other specs Kuo cites are in line with other reports we’ve heard recently, including a 6.6-inch screen with a 2740 x 1260 resolution that’s roughly on par with the 2796 x 1290 screen on the current iPhone 15 Plus, along with a