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So the iPhone lineup got a massive overhaul this year.
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So the iPhone lineup got a massive overhaul this year.
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We're seeing big jumps in performance,
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in battery life, in camera capabilities.
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This is a very stacked year for Apple's iPhones.
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So these are the review units I got in,
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a 17, an Air, and both pros.
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This year, the pros have boxes that showcase the backs of the devices.
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And because it's a full metal unibody back,
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the boxes are printed with this shiny metallic ink.
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And inside, because there are mostly eSIM devices around the world,
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there's no more SIM tool.
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You just get the charging cable as well as a single piece of paper
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that says that you no longer need SIM tools Welcome to the world of eSIMS even up here in Canada Okay,
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so these are the four devices I have the regular iPhone
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17 is pretty much the same aesthetic as last year It's probably the sleeper phone from Apple's lineup this year.
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This is a very awesome device It just doesn't look all that special.
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The iPhone Air is super thin This will get its own video in the near future
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because this deserves an entire different kind of conversation.
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But the Pro devices are a very different and unexpected shape this year.
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These, right when I first saw them,
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I was like, these are so big and bulbous.
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And a week later, I still think they're large,
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but they've definitely grown on me.
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These do not look or feel anything like previous generations of iPhones.
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The biggest shift is just that unibody design.
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This bottom panel here is now rounded and because it's just one piece of metal that is the entire chassis.
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It just sits in your hand very differently.
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The orange color is super orange.
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When I saw this at the event,
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I was like, this is way too loud.
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Getting it in studio, it's even louder.
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The blue has grown on me.
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This is like, yeah, this is a really nice blue.
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It just looks better with the nice studio lighting than it did at the event.
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All of the iPhone 17 devices have Ceramic Shield 2 on the front glass.
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This is less reflective and more scratch resistant than last year's glass,
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but if you wanna fully protect your phone,
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You still need a case and screen protector.
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This is the new ghost case from dbrand But they have a new one this year called tank with customizable buttons
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So about the displays the iPhone 17 finally gets the 120 Hertz Pro motion panel I'd love to believe
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that Apple did this in response to like us tech nerds begging for it But I don't think that's the case.
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I think Apple was just like that.
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It's finally the right time We're done milking our customers with their 60 Hertz panels.
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The other displays are also very nice These are all finally like 120 hertz, ProMotion, OLED.
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It basically caught up to the rest of the Android world.
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It's a very exciting time for iPhone users because we finally have good screens across the entire lineup.
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They also get brighter at the top end this year.
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It can go to 3,000 nits at the top outdoors,
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and it's a lot brighter in terms of numbers than the 2,000 of the previous gen,
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but keep in mind that even though these are a thousand more nits than the previous generation at the top end,
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how we perceive light is logarithmic,
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So it's not as big of a jump as you might think.
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Now, in terms of battery life,
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these two devices, the Pro and the Pro Max,
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have very impressive battery life.
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But it does drain quite fast in heavy games.
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If you don't slam the GPU,
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though, I think that Pro Max is a two-day battery for many people.
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And if you're someone that takes advantage of the optimized battery charging,
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like the thing that caps it up to 80% to preserve the kind of longevity of your battery life,
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because this is so big,
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it's still going to be like a day and a half battery at an 80% charge.
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Charging is faster on some of the iPhone 17s.
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They can hit 40-wire charging if the battery's depleted enough,
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and it'll sustain it for a little bit of time,
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but then it'll drop down quite quickly.
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The pack on the iPhone Air,
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like, the battery here is way better performing than I thought it would be,
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just because of how thin it is.
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It's actually quite impressive.
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The only thing that bums me out is that the pack is just,
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it's so unique to this thing.
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Like, nothing else can hold this pack properly.
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Even the big iPhone 17 Pro Max.
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I demoed this at the event,
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but like I thought maybe at home I can just finagle it enough to get it to fit.
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It doesn't it's just
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It's so frustrating It'll charge because like the coils are somewhat aligned
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but for proper like magnet to magnet contact It only works on the iPhone air So unfortunate
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Okay performance every year we get a new chip
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and it's faster like you'd expect Last year was an unusually large jump in performance for both CPU and GPU
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This year is actually an even larger step up in performance.
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The A19 Pro chips are very powerful.
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Now, I'm sure the chip and the architecture and all the engineering around it is fantastic,
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but I think a big part of why they're performing so well is because of that new vapor chamber.
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So they showed this thing at the event.
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It seems like a very interesting piece of technology.
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We actually got to demo it at Apple.
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We got to hold it and put them in hot water just to see how they work.
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The thing that, okay, just to be clear what a vapor chamber even does.
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It's really simple.
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It just takes heat and then spreads it out evenly across the surface very quickly.
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Now on these phones, they're just doing it to pull off heat from the chips
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and all that super hot dense area and pull it away onto the outer aluminum shell or the bodies to radiate heat.
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There's no vent.
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There's no like active airflow here.
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It's just passive dissipation of heat.
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But because that vapor chamber is so effective,
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it allows Apple to crank these devices a little bit harder knowing
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that they can dump off that heat a little bit more effectively.
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And these Pro phones are able to sustain a high level of performance for a surprisingly long time.
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And I also think that if they took that vapor chamber and just stuck it into this chassis,
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like the existing iPhone 16 Pro chassis,
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it wouldn't be nearly as effective.
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Like the glass and titanium isn't nearly as thermally conductive,
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and that vapor chamber would have been wasted in this device.
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Now, you get 12 gigs of RAM on the Pro models,
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same with the iPhone Air.
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The regular iPhone 17 just gets 8 gigs of RAM.
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It's not immediately clear as to what that extra RAM is really for.
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If you think about last year,
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Apple was selling these devices,
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their flagship devices, with just 8 gigs of RAM,
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and they were touting the whole,
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like, you know, these devices are future forward,
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it's going to be Apple intelligence ready, and all that stuff.
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Maybe they ran into some kind of,
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like technical obstacle where they realize the only way to deliver the things
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that they promised they would deliver last year is just like
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stock these things with 12 gigs of ram who knows uh
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but i do think it's going to be something that's forward
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looking it maybe will be revealed at wwdc as to why
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that extra ram is necessary or beneficial a couple things
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that do come to mind though i do think that right now
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when you use apple intelligence
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and you're trying to use the on-device language models it's there's
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a little bit of a delay like i think there's some
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swaps of memory like as it's loading the model in and out of memory.
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I do think that
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if you have more RAM you can keep the model in memory just ready to go at all times
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so that series a little bit more responsive, maybe.
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I don't think it's camera related though because the Air,
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even with its single camera, still gets 12 gigs.
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Okay, speaking of cameras,
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on the Pro models we have a camera system where all three cameras are finally running 48 megapixel sensors.
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This is something I think a lot of the camera enthusiasts
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were hoping would eventually happen the biggest change comes for that telephoto with its 4x optical zoom,
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which is technically a step down from the 5x that we saw on last year's device,
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but the sensor is way bigger this year,
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which allows Apple to do that cropped sensor thing that they like to do,
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which technically gives them an optical-like 8x zoom.
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So now, on the Pro iPhones,
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you get a camera system with high resolution and,
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more importantly, large sensors to go with it,
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and you just get way better image quality when you combine the two like that.
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The 4X optical is sharper than last year's 5X,
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and then when you do use that 8X crop in,
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you lose some of that sharpness because you're using a smaller portion of that sensor,
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but it still looks good.
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I think this is the most complete camera package that Apple's ever put on any of the phones,
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where all of the lenses just feel sharp and very usable.
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The main camera and the ultra wide deliver really good pictures,
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but even on the iPhone 17 Pro Max,
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I still think Pixel and Samsung flagships deliver something a little better in the stills department,
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especially in low light conditions.
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Now for video, iPhones are typically better in this space.
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It's definitely better than the Pixel's video output.
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I do think that Samsung's S25 Ultra,
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like their flagship, can be quite competitive.
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The Samsung handles colors a little bit better,
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but iPhone handles imperfect lighting a little bit more reliably.
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If you're interested in 4K,
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120 frames per second video,
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the Pro models can do it.
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The iPhone Air cannot do it,
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despite having the same kind of chip.
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Well, it's got a bend down GPU,
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so it's got one core less,
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but this cannot do that high frame rate video or like that super high frame rate video that these two can.
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The front-facing camera is also so much better.
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The old one was a 12 megapixel sensor.
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The new one's 18 megapixels and it's a much larger sensor.
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You can do landscape selfies without actually rotating the device and everything about this new front-facing camera is better.
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The way it handles color,
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the way it handles lighting is just an awesome improvement
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and this is on all of the new iPhone 17 devices including the regular base model.
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So if you take a look at pricing,
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the regular iPhone 17 is a pretty decent value this year.
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You get 256 gigs of storage.
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You get the new ProMotion display.
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You get a really improved front-facing camera.
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Like this is a very solid package.
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I think that Apple typically doesn't offer something so good for $799,
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at least not in the past.
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The iPhone Air product, this is a separate conversation.
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This will have its separate video.
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I'm trying to make this work,
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but it's a whole conversation.
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The pro devices.
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So the value proposition when it comes to the pro devices is always a little bit tricky,
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but this year I feel like all the feature updates and kind of upgrades they've provided on this thing,
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awesome battery life, really good triple camera system that's just like very complete,
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plus all the thermal improvements that give it just awesome overall performance.
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If you're into technology and you look at this and you can't appreciate like what's happening on this device,
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I don't know what to say.
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This is a really solid offering from Apple.
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I think that when it comes to like Apple's pro devices,
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as, as much as they like to like blow smoke and hype things up,
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I really think that this is amazing year for the pro devices.
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I really do.
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Okay.
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Uh, that's my take on these.
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Hope you guys enjoyed this video.
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