{"id":181343,"date":"2025-09-25T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181343\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:29:10","slug":"apple-iphone-17-review-sometimes-boring-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181343\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone 17 review: Sometimes boring is best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve seen this one before<\/p>\n<p>Externally, the iPhone 17 is near-identical to the iPhone 16, which itself used the same basic design Apple had been using since the iPhone 12. The most significant update in that five-year span was probably the iPhone 15, which switched from the display notch to the Dynamic Island and from the Lightning port to USB-C.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 12 generation was also probably the last time the regular iPhone and the Pro were <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/10\/iphone-12-and-12-pro-double-review-playing-apples-greatest-hits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this similar<\/a>. Those phones used the same basic design, the same basic chip, and the same basic screen, leaving mostly camera-related improvements and the Max model as the main points of differentiation. That&#8217;s all broadly true of the split between the iPhone 17 and the 17 Pro, as well.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img width=\"2560\" height=\"1441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3406.jpeg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n      The iPhone Air and Pro both depart from the last half-decade of iPhone designs in different ways, but the iPhone 17 sticks with the tried-and-true.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Andrew Cunningham<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 17&#8217;s design has changed just enough since last year that you&#8217;ll need to find a new iPhone 17-compatible case and screen protector for your phone rather than buying something that fits a previous-generation model (it&#8217;s imperceptibly taller than the iPhone 16). The screen size has been increased from 6.1 inches to 6.3, the same as the iPhone Pro. But the aluminum-framed-glass-sandwich design is much less of a departure from recent precedent than either the iPhone Air or the Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The screen is the real star of the show in the iPhone 17, bringing 120 Hz ProMotion technology and the Pro&#8217;s always-on display feature to the regular iPhone for the first time. According to Apple&#8217;s spec sheets (and my eyes, admittedly not a scientific measurement), the 17 and the Pro appear to be using identical display panels, with the same functionally infinite contrast, resolution (2622 x 1206), and brightness specs (1,000 nits typical, 1,600 nits for HDR, 3,000 nits peak in outdoor light).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve seen this one before Externally, the iPhone 17 is near-identical to the iPhone 16, which itself used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-181343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}