iPhone 17e Reviews: Two Key Upgrades

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The archetypal reviews of the iPhone 17e were published contiguous by selected publications and YouTube channels, up of the instrumentality launching connected Wednesday.

iPhone 17e features the aforesaid wide plan arsenic the iPhone 16e, but it gained Apple's A19 chip, MagSafe for magnetic wireless charging and magnetic accessories, and Apple's second-generation C1X cellular modem. In the U.S., the iPhone 17e starts astatine the aforesaid $599 arsenic the iPhone 16e did, but it has a doubled 256GB of basal storage.

The Verge's Allison Johnson recommended that customers acquisition the modular iPhone 17 for an other $200 implicit the iPhone 17e, if they tin spend to. The modular iPhone 17 has been precise popular, and it offers immoderate features the iPhone 17e lacks, including a 120Hz ProMotion display, a Dynamic Island, and an other Ultra Wide rear camera.

If you bash opt for the iPhone 17e, though, MagSafe and the 256GB of basal storage are the 2 cardinal upgrades implicit the iPhone 16e.

CNN Underscored's Mike Andronico called MagSafe a "huge" addition:While the iPhone 17e looks and feels conscionable similar past year's model, there's 1 immense alteration nether the hood: MagSafe support. Apple's latest introduction level telephone works with the wide ecosystem of magnetic accessories retired there, including MagSafe wallets, MagSafe artillery packs and MagSafe charging stands. It's been truthful bully being capable to plop my iPhone 17e connected my Belkin Boost Charge basal portion I'm astatine my table and drawback connected my Baseus PicoGo artillery battalion erstwhile I'm connected the go, 2 large conveniences I often person to springiness up erstwhile investigating a cheaper phone. MagSafe allows for doubly the wireless charging velocity astatine 15W versus 7.5W, and portion Google conscionable joined the enactment with its akin PixelSnap tech, you won't find that diagnostic connected the caller $500 Google Pixel 10a.Google's fund Pixel 10a smartphone lacks an equivalent MagSafe feature.

iPhone 17e benchmarks already surfaced past week, revealing that the device's A19 spot is up to 15% faster than the iPhone 16e's A18 spot and unsurprisingly connected par with the modular iPhone 17. In different words, show is wholly fine.

iPhone 17e features Apple's latest C1X modem for cellular connectivity. Apple says the C1X is up to doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic the C1 modem successful the iPhone 16e.

On AT&T's web successful New Jersey, PCMag's Eric Zeman said the iPhone 17e achieved a highest download velocity of 419 Mbps, but helium did not trial immoderate different devices for comparison. In a study published successful September, Ookla said the iPhone 16e achieved a median download velocity of 169 Mbps connected AT&T, truthful it seems similar twice-as-fast 5G is astir accurate.

CNET, Engadget, and WIRED besides shared iPhone 17e reviews, among others.