Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iPhone 17: ‘The best value for the money’

Apple’s iPhone 17
Apple’s iPhone 17 features the new Center Stage front camera that takes selfies to the next level, a powerful 48MP Fusion Main camera with an optical-quality 2x Telephoto, and a new 48MP Fusion Ultra Wide camera that captures expansive scenes and macro photography in more detail.
The 6.3-inch Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion is bigger and brighter, enabling supersmooth scrolling, immersive gaming, and improved efficiency. And with the new Ceramic Shield 2, the front cover is tougher than any smartphone glass or glass-ceramic, with 3x better scratch resistance than the previous generation and reduced glare. It is all powered by the latest-generation A19 chip for higher performance and longevity.
iPhone 17 is available starting with 256GB of storage — double the entry storage from the previous generation — and a 512GB option, in five beautiful colors: black, lavender, mist blue, sage, and white.
Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica:
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This year, ProMotion finally comes to the regular-old iPhone 17, years after midrange and even lower-end Android phones made the swap to 90 or 120 Hz display panels. And it sounds like a small thing, but the screen upgrade—together with a doubling of base storage from 128GB to 256GB — makes the gap between this year’s iPhone and iPhone Pro feel narrower than it’s been in a long time. If you jumped on the Pro train a few years back and don’t want to spend that much again, this might be a good year to switch back. If you’ve ever been tempted by the Pro but never made the upgrade, you can continue not doing that and miss out on relatively little.
The iPhone 17 has very little that we haven’t seen in an iPhone before, compared to the redesigned Pro or the all-new Air. But it’s this year’s best upgrade, and it’s not particularly close.
The screen is one of the iPhone Pro’s best features, and the iPhone 17 gets it this year. That plus the 256GB storage bump is pretty much all you need to know; this will be a more noticeable upgrade for anyone with, say, the iPhones 12-to-14 than the iPhone 15 or 16 was. And for $799—$200 more than the 128GB version of the iPhone 16e and $100 more than the 128GB version of the iPhone 16—it’s by far the iPhone lineup’s best value for money right now.

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MacDailyNews Take: Starting at $799, the iPhone 17 really is a tremendous value for all that it offers!

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