At IFA: Numerous iPhone-17 covers also from large manufacturers

While Apple is still making a big secret around the iPhone 17 family, this year’s international radio exhibition (IFA) in Berlin, which ends this week, is full of accessory providers who are ready for the new smartphones-and also advertise that amazingly offensive. Even known brands are among them that advertise with photos of dummy models at the stands, as if all the details of the new devices are already officially known. You are obviously very sure what Apple will introduce at the “AWE Droping” keynote on Tuesday (September 9).

Large manufacturers with iPhone-17 accessories

A passage over the exhibition center shows providers such as Nomad, Decoded or ESR, which have the covers for iPhone 17, 17 Air, 17 Pro or 17 Pro Max and present corresponding mockups. This is surprising, you would otherwise expect such preliminary products from small manufacturers. Other large accessories such as Dbrand have already have in the last few days Newsletter for your iPhone-17 products sent (“Sorry, Tim”) and/or sell the covers even with delivery in September.

But how does it come that the providers are so safe and the countless sleeves are also considered credible in the Apple scene? Because actually it is the same game every year: producers of iPhone cases often seem to know what the devices will look like first. This is because the companies usually have good contacts in Apple’s supply chain. Even if Apple tries to stop such drains (for which money is also supposed to flow), information always comes to the outside world.

Possibly a very expensive bet

Of course, it may also be that covers manufacturers are wrong. This year, due to the new form factor of the iPhone 17 Air, one would have expected to prevent Apple Leaks. But the industry seems to be largely united and presented (thin) cases that largely correspond.

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iPhone-17 envelopes on the IFA

In view of the pre -production phase that the accessory providers need to get on the market on time with the new iPhones, it can be assumed that they are right – or it would be a (very) expensive bet. But we only know whether this is really true after the keynote.