iPhone 17/Pro/Air Impressions: Spot the Red Flags!
Apple 2025 September Event First Impressions: iPhone 17, Pro, and Air
Get immediate, compressed takeaways on the performance gains, design shifts, and significant trade-offs across the new iPhone 17 lineup unveiled today.
Short Summary
- Base iPhone 17 standardizes Pro features like 120Hz ProMotion across the entire range.
- iPhone 17 Pro focuses heavily on thermal management, switching to aluminum and adding a vapor chamber for sustained performance.
- The ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air brings stunning design but raises major red flags regarding heat dissipation and battery life. This overview synthesizes major announcements from Apple’s 2025 event, helping you digest the most crucial hardware changes immediately.
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Upgrading just hits different when you wait 6-8 years. Edit: I had the 6s+ for 7+ years. Got it when it came out in 2015. Only in the last 3 months did the battery start to die. I got the 12 in late 2022, and I have no plan to upgrade until this phone startes to fail or gets badly damaged. Another Edit: I think apple only makes phones worth upgrading to, every 5 years or so. I have the 12. If I make it last 7 years again in 2029 I could jump to the iphone 21* (*whatever it’ll be). The 17 is 5 years from the 12 in 2020 and every phone between now and 2028 can be bough new at a discount. Of course I can switch to a more affordable brand too in a couple years.
All day battery? To quote MrWhoseTheBoss: “Whose day?” 😂
I honestly think the base iPhone 17 will be the best value out of all the upcoming models. With 120Hz finally included, it seems like the perfect option for most people.
17: form = function 17 Air: form > function 17 Pro: form < function
11:00 imagine making an incredibly thin phone just for them to sell you a huge battery to stick on the back so it ends up being thicker than the new iphone 17 pro.... what's the point😂😂
Marques is spot on with the Air just being a preview of the foldable iphone. They will sandwich two iPhone Airs and call it revolutionary!
"Plateau"??? Honey that camera bump is a continent 😂
iPhone 17's ProMotion is a game-changer, just like when we switched to Pneumatic Workflow for our project management. Both smooth operators!
These YouTube reviews spend so much time talking about the camera that you’d think they were presenting a Canon DSLR with calling and texting features, instead of a smartphone that happens to include a camera. It feels less like a phone review and more like a camera commercial.
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Top Comments (10)
Fun fact: you can double tap a comment to like it and triple tap to open replies.
Upgrading just hits different when you wait 6-8 years. Edit: I had the 6s+ for 7+ years. Got it when it came out in 2015. Only in the last 3 months did the battery start to die. I got the 12 in late 2022, and I have no plan to upgrade until this phone startes to fail or gets badly damaged. Another Edit: I think apple only makes phones worth upgrading to, every 5 years or so. I have the 12. If I make it last 7 years again in 2029 I could jump to the iphone 21* (*whatever it’ll be). The 17 is 5 years from the 12 in 2020 and every phone between now and 2028 can be bough new at a discount. Of course I can switch to a more affordable brand too in a couple years.
All day battery? To quote MrWhoseTheBoss: “Whose day?” 😂
I honestly think the base iPhone 17 will be the best value out of all the upcoming models. With 120Hz finally included, it seems like the perfect option for most people.
17: form = function 17 Air: form > function 17 Pro: form < function
11:00 imagine making an incredibly thin phone just for them to sell you a huge battery to stick on the back so it ends up being thicker than the new iphone 17 pro.... what's the point😂😂
Marques is spot on with the Air just being a preview of the foldable iphone. They will sandwich two iPhone Airs and call it revolutionary!
"Plateau"??? Honey that camera bump is a continent 😂
iPhone 17's ProMotion is a game-changer, just like when we switched to Pneumatic Workflow for our project management. Both smooth operators!
These YouTube reviews spend so much time talking about the camera that you’d think they were presenting a Canon DSLR with calling and texting features, instead of a smartphone that happens to include a camera. It feels less like a phone review and more like a camera commercial.