iPhone 17 Lineup Hands On: Air's Thinness vs Pro's Power

Happy iPhone 17 day! The iPhone Air and the different caller ‌iPhone 17‌ models are present disposable successful stores and successful the hands of customers. We picked up the ‌iPhone Air‌, iPhone 17 Pro, and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max for a archetypal impressions video.


Unsurprisingly, the ‌iPhone Air‌ is incredibly thin, and holding 1 aft holding the overmuch larger Pro models makes for a existent "wow" moment. If the value of the bigger iPhones bothers you, the Air volition beryllium a relief.

There's not excessively overmuch to accidental astir the Air different than fawning implicit its 5.6mm bladed design. It does person the A19 Pro for show connected par with the Pro models, but it's constricted to a single-lens rear camera. If you usage the Ultra Wide oregon Telephoto lenses, you'll miss them. Apple did marque immoderate under-the-hood changes that let the Air to enactment editable representation mode photos with a azygous lens, and you bash get the aforesaid 18-megapixel front-facing camera that the different models have.


Moving connected to the Pro models, the 17 Pro and Pro Max consciousness hefty this twelvemonth compared to the Air. The 17 Pro is astir apt the size that astir radical volition similar due to the fact that it's a bully blend of pro features, show size, and weight.

Apple made absorbing colour choices this year, and the agleam orangish Pro colour stands out. We got the Pro Max successful the orangish shadiness and the Pro successful the silver, and the metallic is amazingly nice. It's 1 of the amended airy metallic shades that Apple has travel retired with. There is nary titanium this year, due to the fact that Apple discovered that it wasn't large for dissipating heat. We're backmost to aluminum, and there's a full caller vapor enclosure cooling strategy to maximize the thermal show of the A19 Pro chip.


You won't spot it, but the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models person a small spot of h2o wrong to nonstop vigor distant from the spot and done the aluminum casing. It's inactive early, but the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models don't look to person the contiguous vigor issues of the 16 Pro models erstwhile doing GPU-heavy tasks.

Apple updated the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ design, and alternatively of a camera bump, we person a full camera plateau. It's big, but immoderate radical mightiness admit the symmetry of the caller design. There's besides a two-tone benignant of look due to the fact that astir of the framework is aluminum with conscionable a rectangle astatine the backmost made from Ceramic Shield worldly for wireless charging. This is the archetypal clip that Apple has utilized Ceramic Shield for the backmost of the iPhone, and it's expected to beryllium much durable. Apple says the beforehand screen is Ceramic Shield 2, which is much scratch resistant than before. There's an updated anti-reflective coating arsenic well, but it's subtle.

Battery beingness connected the ‌iPhone Air‌ is awesome for its size, but the Pro and Pro Max person bigger gains. Battery beingness is six hours longer per Apple's testing, though we'll request much clip to spot what that means successful day-to-day usage.

The caller front-facing camera has a diagnostic that lets you instrumentality scenery oregon representation selfie shots without rotating the phone, which is unique. You tin besides grounds with the beforehand and rear-facing cameras astatine the aforesaid clip if you privation to bash reaction-style videos.


The Pro models person a 48-megapixel Telephoto lens with 4x oregon 8x zoom, truthful you tin zoom successful further than before. It's utile to person different focal length, and it produces bully bokeh for representation shots.

Make definite to enactment tuned to MacRumors due to the fact that we'll person much in-depth videos coming, including Camera comparisons and videos wherever we pit Apple's caller iPhones against fashionable smartphones from Samsung and Google.
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