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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways
- Apple conscionable launched its iPhone 17 Pro.
- The caller exemplary includes immoderate enticing upgrades.
- I person had nan 16 Pro for 1 year, and mightiness waste and acquisition it in.
While astir group take to hold respective years earlier upgrading their iPhones, that's a spot much challenging for tech aficionados for illustration myself. I really wanted to clasp retired connected upgrading my regular driver, nan iPhone 16 Pro, but aft watching today's motorboat arena and learning astir nan newest iPhone 17 Pro merchandise successful specs, I americium astir convinced to make nan upgrade.
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While nan flashiest announcement from today's merchandise motorboat is nan highly anticipated iPhone Air, nan company's lightest and thinnest telephone to date, nan iPhone 17 Pro sewage immoderate important upgrades that make it 1 to watch. With a refreshed design, bold colors, and under-the-hood upgrades, it is 1 of nan astir tin iPhone models to date.
Here are nan 3 awesome reasons I whitethorn conscionable portion ways pinch my iPhone 16 Pro (with nan past logic being my biggest motivator).
1. Camera upgrades
The biggest logic to acquisition immoderate of nan Pro models is that you are an avid photograph taker, representation capturer, aliases contented creator, and request nan precocious camera strategy that these phons offer. This year, that logic looms large.
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The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max characteristic "Apple's best-ever camera systems pinch higher-resolution sensors beforehand and backmost - balanced to having 8 pro lenses successful a user's pocket," according to Apple. Let maine break down nan existent specs.
For nan first time, nan three-camera array includes 3 48MP Fusion cameras, including nan caller 48MP Telephoto camera, which has a sensor that is 56% larger than nan erstwhile generation. This should lend to sharper, crisper images successful some lighter and darker environments, and thief it amended compete pinch smartphones that do peculiarly good pinch long-distance, specified arsenic nan Google Pixel 10 Pro.
The declare that location are 8 pro lenses successful a user's pouch comes from nan truth that now they tin flex betwixt various zoom ranges, for example, 4x optical zoom astatine 100mm vs 8x optical zoom astatine 200mm (which Apple says is nan longest connected an iPhone). On nan front, nan iPhone 17 Pro besides features an upgrade pinch Center Stage, which gives it a wider section of imagination for group selfies and amended resolution, up to 18MP.
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ZDNET's Editor successful Chief Jason Hiner did constituent retired a imaginable pitfall: "All 3 iPhone 17 Pro cameras are now 48MP and Fusion cameras, meaning they person aggregate effective lengths. So nan zoom camera is now 4x pinch an 8x 'optical-quality' zoom. That intends Apple has really downgraded nan optical zoom from 5x to 4x."
However, nan caller specs look promising, and you will really only cognize really good nan camera performs erstwhile you usage it, but my liking is piqued. Keep an oculus retired for an in-depth camera strategy reappraisal for illustration nan 1 I did past twelvemonth for nan iPhone 16 Pro.
2. Battery life
In yet different bold declare from Apple, nan institution says that nan iPhone 17 Pro has nan champion artillery life successful an iPhone. Apple attributes this feat to nan unibody design, which allows for nan inclusion of a larger battery, iOS 26 battery-optimizing features, and nan caller A19 Pro chipset. While Apple doesn't connection nan existent artillery specs, nan institution says that nan telephone supports 33 hours of video playback. By comparison, nan iPhone 16 Pro offers up to 27 hours of video playback.
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Even though I americium satisfied pinch nan capacity of nan iPhone 16 Pro's artillery life, apt because it has only been a year, I americium a textbook meaning of what you would telephone a powerfulness user. I will simultaneously beryllium connected FaceTime, and editing a video, while toggling to a different model to reply texts. Even my bedtime regular includes hours of doomscrolling, and arsenic a result, I tin ever use from a amended battery.
3. Strictly aesthetics
While I wish I were kidding, nan caller look and colors of nan iPhone 17 Pro play a ample domiciled successful my determination to upgrade. With this iPhone 17 lineup arsenic a whole, it was refreshing to spot Apple return much imaginative liberties. While this was exemplified successful its astir unsocial shape factor, nan iPhone Air, nan iPhone 17 Pro shows disconnected this inclination too, successful peculiar because of its much nosy colors.
While I americium not an orangish personification and ain not 1 ounce of orangish successful my wardrobe aliases accessories, nan Cosmic Orange colour is perfectly stunning. As we discussed successful nan office, nan hands-on footage makes it evident that nan colour is overmuch little of a postulation cone orangish and overmuch much of a copper-like shade. Even nan Deep Blue shade, while little eye-catching, is still a beautiful color. Last year, nan 3 Pro models were each different shades of neutrals, varying betwixt 4 very basal and dull colors.
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There is besides a flimsy variety successful nan existent shape factor. The camera bump extends crossed nan full apical of nan phone, akin to that of nan Google Pixel models. There is besides a two-tone sheet connected nan backmost of nan phone, adding immoderate ocular variety.
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