Apple iPhone 17 series to launch next month: Date, price, specifications, and design upgrades to expect
iPhone 17: Camera
Live Events
iPhone 17 Pro: Battery and Display
iPhone 17: Price
(You can now subscribe to our
(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel
Apple is preparing for the highly anticipated launch of its flagship iPhone 17, which is expected to take place soon. As per leaks and rumours, the iPhone 17 series is slated for a global launch next month, although the company has not made any official announcements yet. Given that Apple has historically unveiled new iPhones in September, the 2025 launch is also expected to happen during the same month.According to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, 'the iPhone launch could happen on September 9 or September 10', aligning with Apple's consistent launch schedule. This year, Apple is likely to introduce four new iPhone models—iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and for the first time, iPhone 17 Air. The iPhone 17 Plus will reportedly be discontinued. Alongside the new iPhones, Apple is also expected to unveil the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3, making it a major event with a packed product lineup.The iPhone 17 series is expected to feature a significant design overhaul. Leaks suggest that the iPhone 17 Air and Pro variants could sport a horizontal camera layout, replacing the vertical module seen on the iPhone 16 lineup. Apple will also reportedly debut its slimmest iPhone ever, which is one of the most awaited highlights of the launch.Apple is expected to introduce the A19 Pro chip, built using TSMC's next-generation 3nm process. The devices may also see a RAM upgrade to 12GB for the first time on an iPhone, promising smoother performance—especially for the Apple Intelligence features.The camera system is likely to get a major boost, with a new 48MP telephoto lens supporting up to 8x optical zoom. The primary and ultra-wide cameras are also expected to be upgraded to 48MP each. The lineup may offer 8K video recording and a 24MP front camera for improved selfies.Apple may introduce an upgraded ceramic shield, along with a new anti-reflective and scratch-resistant display, possibly featuring nano-texture technology similar to that on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that 'Apple's iPhone 17 lineup—which includes the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max—is expected to hit the market between September 8 and September 10, 2025.' The iPhone 17 Pro may be priced at ₹1,45,990 in India, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max could launch at ₹1,64,990.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Mint
2 hours ago
- Mint
India tops US smartphone supply, electronic production grown six times to ₹12 lakh crore: Ashwini Vaishnaw
'India has become top smartphone supplier to the US,' Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Sunday, stating that the nation's electronics manufacturing has grown six times and is now worth ₹ 12 lakh crore. Vaishnaw claimed that India's electronic production 'has grown six times in last 11 years,' while the export of electronic goods has 'gone up eight times.' The Railway Minister's comments about the jump in numbers pertaining to India's electronic goods production and exports comes amid the ongoing tariff tensions, which have put India-US trade ties in the spotlight. – 'In the leadership of PM Narendra Modi in 11 years, India is transforming in every sector. In 2014, India was called a fragile economy, today India is considered as a bright spot in the world filled with uncertainty,' said Vaishnaw. – He said that Karnataka's Devanahalli is becoming a major iPhone manufacturing hub. – Referring to India AI Mission, Vaishnaw said that 'PM Modi's vision is to democratise technology.' As part of the mission, '34,000 GPUs are available as common compute facility for all innovators', with the price of GPU less than $1 per hour, said Vaishnaw. According to data by India's Ministry of Electronics and IT, in February 2025, India had made significant progress in mobile and electronics manufacturing, becoming the world's 2nd largest mobile manufacturing country. – In 2014, India had only 2 mobile manufacturing units, but fast forward to today, the nation boasts over 300 manufacturing units, underscoring a significant expansion in this vital sector. – In 2014 -15 only 26 per cent of the mobile phones which were being sold in India were made in India, the rest were being imported. As of February 4, 2025, 99.2 per cent of all mobile phones which were sold in India were made in India, stated the government data. - The manufacturing value of mobile phones also surged from ₹ 18,900 crore in FY14 to a staggering ₹ 4,22,000 crore in FY24.
Time of India
3 hours ago
- Time of India
Tim Cook's White House visit shows the true cost of tariffs
One of the most provocative items in my wardrobe is a plain dark T-shirt designed by a libertarian economist. In 10 lines across the front, it reads: 'Tariffs not only impose immense economic costs but also fail to achieve their primary policy aims and foster political dysfunction along the way.' In related news, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook went to the White House last week to give President Donald Trump a large piece of gold. In exchange, Trump said that Apple would be exempt from a new 100% tariff the US is imposing on imported microchips. Officially, Apple gets the exemption because it committed to making a $100 billion investment in the US. Apple had already announced earlier this year a $500 billion investment program, which itself was a modest expansion of previous plans. Productivity Tool Zero to Hero in Microsoft Excel: Complete Excel guide By Metla Sudha Sekhar View Program Finance Introduction to Technical Analysis & Candlestick Theory By Dinesh Nagpal View Program Finance Financial Literacy i e Lets Crack the Billionaire Code By CA Rahul Gupta View Program Digital Marketing Digital Marketing Masterclass by Neil Patel By Neil Patel View Program Finance Technical Analysis Demystified- A Complete Guide to Trading By Kunal Patel View Program Productivity Tool Excel Essentials to Expert: Your Complete Guide By Study at home View Program Artificial Intelligence AI For Business Professionals Batch 2 By Ansh Mehra View Program No matter. To Trump, the important thing is announcing these pledges, not enforcing them. During his first term, there was an infamous vaporware investment from Foxconn in Wisconsin that never amounted to anything. The real benefit to the president is the sycophantic photo op, when the CEO smiles for the cameras and praises Trump's dealmaking prowess. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like This new air conditioner cools down a room in just seconds News of the Discovery Undo Bloomberg This is the political dysfunction described on my T-shirt. Live Events A flat tariff instituted for the purpose of raising revenue would, whatever its downsides, basically be just a peculiar form of tax. But tariffs are almost invariably marketed as having strategic or economic-development benefits. And that leads to exemptions. The chip tariffs are supposed to foster the growth of an electronics manufacturing industry in the US. But because chips are an input into other manufactured goods, the tariffs could easily backfire. So if you can convince the president that you are in fact making investments in manufacturing in the US, you can get an exemption from the tariffs. The problem here — and with the dozens of other exemptions and waivers baked into Trump's various tariff announcements — is that there is no objective criteria or process at work. Who gets exemptions, and who does not, is almost entirely up to the whims of Trump and his appointees. This in turn raises the question of whether his primary policy aim isn't just to maximize his own power and influence. Cook, for example, used to be a somewhat vocal advocate of LGBT rights. He's always been, first and foremost, a corporate executive. But he would occasionally take advantage of America's status as a free country to speak his mind about political issues. That could now be a risky business proposition, because the viability of Apple's business hinges on not just its ability to keep making products people want to buy, but its ability to secure tariff exemptions. Other tech executives, such as Jeff Bezos, have also erred on the side of reticence: While he wants his newspaper to support and defend personal liberties and free markets, the company he founded backed down from a plan to list explicit tariff surcharges after facing pressure from the White House. In a market economy with a functional democracy that protects free speech and enforces the rule of law, executives shouldn't have to worry that tax policy will swing wildly based on who pleases or angers the president. But in Trump's America, they do. Which brings us to the economic costs. A lot of attention has been paid to the impact of tariffs on prices, with Trump arguing implausibly that the entire incidence will fall on foreign producers and Democrats saying that consumers will pay the costs. The answer will almost certainly have political ramifications for next year's elections. In the long run, though, the American consumer can survive one-off price hikes, and the US economy can adjust to the distortions induced by tariffs. And yet. Think about not the Apple of today, but the Apple of almost 50 years ago, the Apple of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Apple I computer was built in 1976 on a shoestring budget with commercially available parts. Wozniak recalled in a 1984 interview that Jobs had made a deal with a local computer retailer to buy 100 computers for $500 a piece wholesale — $50,000 in revenue. To build them, however, they needed $20,000 worth of components, which they got by securing 30 days of credit from an electronic parts dealer after a phone call to verify the existence of the purchase order. 'We delivered the computers,' Wozniak recalled, 'paid off the parts suppliers, and only had to borrow $5,000 from a friend.' This kind of minor-league transaction in what we now call Silicon Valley went unnoticed at the time and had no discernible impact on the national GDP. But it set in motion a chain of events that changed the world. And it illustrates the openness to entrepreneurs and innovators that is the foundation of America's world-beating economic dynamism. Trump's mashup of 'populist' and 'pro-business' policies is the antithesis of this system. Corporate titans are put to work providing propaganda wins for the White House, and in exchange are accorded favors unavailable to any startup. This approach won't move markets or show up in the quarterly economic data anytime soon, if at all. But it will have a cumulative effect. Week after week, announcement by announcement, Trump is bolstering his ego at the cost of America's long-term economic future.
India Today
4 hours ago
- India Today
Last-minute Pixel 10 leak says no SIM tray, launch in 10 days at Made by Google event
Rumours are swirling once again in Pixel land, and this time they could spell a rather big change for Google's upcoming flagship series. The Pixel 10 family, expected sometime next year, might just wave goodbye to a little metal component that's been a part of every smartphone since the early days: the humble SIM card to a fresh post by well-known tipster Evan Blass on X (formerly Twitter), Google is allegedly plotting to strip the physical SIM slot from three of its next-gen handsets: the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL. Instead, these devices would rely entirely on eSIM technology, specifically, two active eSIM slots to keep you connected. In other words, if this leak is accurate, you'll never have to poke your phone with that little pin again, though you might also lose the ability to quickly swap SIMs on the Blass claims the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, the foldable expected to launch alongside the rest of the line-up, will still hang on to its physical SIM tray. It's almost as if Google has decided foldable owners deserve that extra bit of old-school flexibility. But there's another wrinkle: Blass responded to one curious follower asking whether this SIM tray removal would be a global decision or a region-specific one. His answer? The eSIM-only move could be limited to the United States. If that's the case, buyers in other markets might still get their beloved SIM slot, though, as always, that remains while the leak is intriguing, it's far from bulletproof. For starters, Blass is usually a deadpan, detail-first type of tipster, but this post began with an oddly vague 'tipster suggests' intro, unusual for someone with his track record. Then there's the matter of other Pixel 10 leaks we've already seen. Early CAD-based renders showed a perfectly ordinary SIM slot across all models. Even real-life prototype images that surfaced online featured a SIM tray in the frame. That doesn't exactly scream 'eSIM revolution'.It's also worth pointing out that the images we've seen in recent weeks haven't shown the top edge of the phone in great detail, which is where the SIM slot would usually be visible. That leaves just enough mystery for speculation to thrive. And thrive it has: the replies under Blass's post quickly filled with strong Pixel fans see this potential change as inevitable. Apple has already gone eSIM-only with its US iPhone 14 and 15 models, and the writing could be on the wall for physical SIMs in certain regions. eSIMs can make devices more waterproof, free up internal space for other components, and simplify network switching for those comfortable doing everything however, are less enthusiastic. Travellers, in particular, often prefer a physical SIM slot because it makes buying and popping in a local SIM card quick and painless. With eSIMs, the process can be more fiddly – and if your phone breaks, transferring an eSIM to another device isn't always as straightforward as swapping a Google does follow through with this change, it could find itself walking a tightrope between innovation and alienating a chunk of its audience. In the US, the transition to eSIMs has been slow but steady, with major carriers embracing the tech. Still, there are plenty of people who simply like the reassurance of having a physical card they can hold in their course, there's every chance this rumour turns out to be a false alarm, or at least a premature one. Google might be testing eSIM-only models internally, or exploring a regional rollout, without committing to ditching the SIM tray everywhere. After all, smartphone manufacturers often trial multiple hardware configurations before settling on the final production we see more concrete leaks, or hear from Google itself, it's wise to keep the salt shaker handy. But if you're a die-hard SIM card loyalist living in the US, you might want to brace yourself for the possibility that your next Pixel could be missing that little slot you've been using for years. On the bright side, you'll no longer have to rummage through drawers looking for that fiddly SIM ejector tool.- Ends
