Apple iPhone 17 review: Sometimes boring is best
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Outside, the iPhone 17 is almost identical to the iPhone 16, which itself used the same basic design as Apple used from the iPhone 12. The most significant update of this five-year period was probably the iPhone 15, which went from the display notch to the dynamic island and the flash to USB-C.
The generation of the iPhone 12 was also probably the last time that the ordinary iPhone and the pro were similar. These phones used the same basic design, the same basic chip and the same basic screen, mainly leaving improvements related to the camera and the maximum model as the main differentiation points. All this is also true for the division between the iPhone 17 and the 17 pro.
The iPhone air and the pro both move from the last half-reception of iPhone conceptions in different ways, but the iPhone 17 sticks to the proven trial.
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The design of the iPhone 17 has changed enough since last year to find a new iPhone 17 compatible screen and screen protector for your phone rather than buying something that corresponds to a previous generation model (it is imperceptibly larger than the iPhone 16). The screen size increased from 6.1 inches to 6.3, the same as the iPhone Pro. But the design of glass sandwich with aluminum frame is much less away from the recent preceding than iPhone air or pro.
The screen is the real star of the emission in the iPhone 17, bringing for the first time the promotion technology of 120 Hz and the display function always on the ordinary iPhone. According to Apple’s specification sheets (and my eyes, certainly not a scientific measure), the 17 and the pro seem to use identical display panels, with the same functional contrast, the resolution (2622 x 1206) and the brightness specifications (1000 typical nits, 1,600 nits for HDR, 3000 Peak Nits in the external light).
