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After reporting in January that Apple is adding an \u201cAir\u201d option to its iPhone lineup<\/a>, Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman is offering more details<\/a> about the upcoming slimmer iPhone.<\/p>\n 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 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 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 smartphone makers support USB-C connectors<\/a> \u2014 might respond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n