The most non-year 4 Apple ip has never done

I felt a feeling of deja vu while I picked up the iPhone 17 Pro and the 17 pro Max – in Cosmic Orange, of course – at the Apple “Awe Droping” event and I tried to determine what these new Apple smartphones felt so familiar. Then, it struck me by leaving the Steve Jobs Theater in a tired dizzy last night: the pros of the iPhone 17 remind me of the MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips.

Like these first “pro” MacBook, the pros of the iPhone 17 are actually designed for pros. It’s not just “pro” for marketing. The pros of the iPhone 17 are slightly thicker and heavier, have the most durable batteries of all iPhones, the best cameras, and are much more powerful than the pros. You feel the whole pro-annes as soon as the brick tiles are in your hands. Everything, including the large camera or the set, shouts “professional”, just like these MacBook Pros 2021. And they should because Apple finally prioritized the function on the form, just like these MacBook Pros, which brought the SD card bill and the Magsafe load load. Professional users want a gadget without compromise – or at least closest to him – and Apple the book this year.

Unlike the iPhone air that I couldn’t help eyeing with my jaw on the ground, the pros of the iPhone 17 aroused less fear on my part. In all respects, reinforced versions of the iPhone pros preceded them. The monohull design in aluminum has a ceramic shield cutting at the rear for wireless load, and the camera tray extends over the entire third. It is not the most beautiful iPhone design (this price always goes to the iPhone 4 or the iPhone X, in my opinion), but it is functional. I even noticed that the antenna lines which were discovered in the side of the frames now bleed around the camera plateau. It is very similar to the antenna lines that wrap around the screen on the Ultras Apple Watch. Again, the functional design first – it supposedly improves cellular and wireless connectivity, according to Apple.

I touched the iPhone 17 Cosmic Orange. Here is your first look #Appleevent pic.twitter.com/hub8dxc8l

– Ray Wong (@Raywongy) September 9, 2025

Even with a heavier design, the pros of the iPhone 17 do not feel bulky. In fact, the iPhone 17 Pro Max – The Pro Max model has always been too large and too heavy for me – has been lighter and thinner than it really is. For the first time, I felt that I could use the iPhone 17 Pro Max daily and my hands would not hurt him like an old game boy. The curved metal frame certainly helps to make the pros of the iPhone 17 thinner than they really are. However, its size is still not great if you care about the pocket.

Just as I said in my iPhone Air, I will have to test the pros of the iPhone 17 to see how good the battery performance and lifespan are and how good the cameras are. That being said, the thicker conceptions also meant that Apple was able to improve thermal for sustained performance when the A19 Pro chip is pushed hard for 3D mobile games and the high intensity tasks of GPU as the capture of photos and raw videos (and to edit them). If this does not favor the function first on form, I do not know what it is. Who remembers the dark days when the thermal on the MacBook pros equipped with Intel were so bad? Apple, Post-Juny IVE, seems to give a sh * t on this subject now, and I am everything for that.

The central camera is easily my new favorite camera feature. The possibility of holding the pros of the iPhone 17 vertically and taking horizontal selfies (also works for video) changes the situation if you ask me. More contortion of my hand in a claw to hold my iPhone on the side to pull a selfie or a vlog. I also really liked the “Double Capture” function, which allows you to record the video from rear and front cameras. The front camera appears as an image box in the image you can move in any corner of the screen. It’s going to be great for reaction videos.

I also did a table oscillation test. Here’s how it went:

Iphone 17 Pro table oscillation test! Does it go? Let’s find out! #Appleevent pic.twitter.com/jhuv1zxr3k

– Ray Wong (@Raywongy) September 9, 2025

iPhone 17 Practice

The iPhone 17 was the least exciting model for me, and I spent the least time playing with it. It is a simple update with an A19 chip, a 6.3-inch larger screen at 120 Hz, a new dual camera system with main 48-megapixel and new colors. The Sage Green color is my favorite of the new group, but they also lack dynamism of the colors of the IPhone 16 series.

There is really not much to say on the iPhone 17… It’s like an iPhone 16 Pro, with the same size screen, but with an aluminum frame. It is light, but not the thinnest or finer in the iPhone range. It is everyone’s iPhone, and I don’t plan to change it.

The best part is probably that the iPhone 17 always starts at $ 799, now with 256 GB of storage.

Also touched the iPhone 17 in this wise color. Here is also your first overview of the Camera’s function in the central scene #Appleevent pic.twitter.com/20n1ksyznx

– Ray Wong (@Raywongy) September 9, 2025