The Regular iPhone 17 is Reportedly Proving Popular — Here's Why

The entry-level iPhone 17 exemplary looks precise akin to the equivalent iPhone 16 model, but it is reportedly proving fashionable successful astatine slightest 1 state truthful far.


On the fashionable Chinese buying website JD.com, the modular iPhone 17 with 256GB of retention received the astir pre-orders of immoderate of the caller iPhone models aft pre-orders began connected Friday, according to the South China Morning Post.

There is 1 caveat: Apple delayed pre-orders for the all-new, ultra-thin iPhone Air successful China owed to eSIM regulatory support issues successful the country. However, connected Apple's online store successful the U.S., astir iPhone Air configurations are inactive disposable for September 19 motorboat time delivery, truthful it is rather imaginable that the entry-level iPhone 17 would person proved fashionable successful China adjacent if the iPhone Air had besides been disposable to pre-order.

Why is the regular iPhone 17 proving popular, contempt being the "boring" choice? It astir surely comes down to the device's perceived value, arsenic the instrumentality starts astatine the aforesaid $799/5,999 yuan terms arsenic the regular iPhone 16 did erstwhile it launched, contempt featuring a larger 6.3-inch show with thinner bezels, ProMotion enactment for up to a 120Hz refresh rate, a doubled 256GB of basal storage, and galore different upgrades. The show improvements successful peculiar yet bring the basal iPhone much successful enactment with the Pro models.

So portion the iPhone 17 does not person a flashy caller design, nor is it the thinnest iPhone ever, it appears to beryllium an unassuming deed truthful far.
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