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Everyone's talking about the iPhone Air, but I think the iPhone 17 is the most

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exciting phone in the lineup. So much so that I actually upgraded my iPhone 13

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Pro to an iPhone 17 already. But I'm going to pretend I don't know anything

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about it so we can unbox it here today. Apple's probably calling this their best

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iPhone yet, other than the Pro and the Air. And I believe it. First of all,

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what a great green. There's actually some controversy online. People are

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saying that last year's colors are better, but man, this sage, it looks

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awesome. I actually originally pre-ordered the green and then I canceled and went for black because I'm

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a coward. But holding it in my hands, it looks awesome. And the matching rails,

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oh, it looks so good. The only hesitation is that from the front, you

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can kind of see the green, which to me is a little distracting, but I don't think most people will care. In the box,

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are keeping things simple. We've got a cable and literally just one slip of

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paper now saying you no longer need a physical SIM. Let's see how long this

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cable is. Cuz if there's no brick, you know, at least it should be a nice

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cable. This packaging is fancy. What the hell? Look at this. This is crazy. This

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is just a cable, bro. For cables, it's a USBC to C. And it's sleeved. Really nice

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texture. And for length, it is 1 m long.

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What is that in feet and inches? I don't know. 3.3 feels small. I'm only 2 ft

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taller than this. That's crazy. All right, back to the design of the phone. I think it looks good. It looks exactly

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like the 16, which is kind of disappointing considering the Pro got obviously a big redesign, and the Air

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looks unique. On the left side, we have our action button, which lets you rebind

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to different features. I set mine to Shazam, so you can easily Shazam music

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on Instagram reels, whatever like that. And we have our volume rockers. On the

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top, nothing but an antenna band. On the right side, we have our power button/

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Siri button/wallet button and our camera

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cutout. This is my first phone with that cutout, and it is all right. I find it

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to be in an okay place, but also in a place where when I'm taking it out of my

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pocket, I'm kind of grabbing it by the button, which is a little annoying, but

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I'll get used to it. And on the bottom, we have our speaker grill and our USBC 2

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port. Same as last year, you're not getting the same speeds on your USB port

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as you are in the Pro phones, which is a little disappointing considering they've upgraded the cameras on the back. So, we

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now have a 48 megapixel main camera and 48 megapixel ultrawide, which means

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you'll be taking high quality photos and videos and then transferring it off very

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slowly via AirDrop or cable, which is annoying, but I guess if you're going to

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do anything with video, you're getting the Pro. Seems like a weak excuse these

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days. One thing I noticed right off the bat when I got my 17 is that the hand feel is great. Coming from the older

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phones where it's flat. I think it can look quite good, but it's a little sharp

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in your hand versus the new series, it's flat on the sides, but it's kind of

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rounded into itself. So, it fits in your hand really naturally. It doesn't feel

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sharp and it still feels like I have a grip on it, which is awesome. It's also

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nice to get away from the shiny edges where it gets pretty fingerprinty pretty

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fast. Another nice change is the front glass, which is now ceramic shield 2,

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which promises three times better scratch resistance, which is great

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because I don't like to use a case. I don't like to use a screen protector.

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And on my 13 Pro, you can see it's getting little scratches on the sides.

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So, if I can prevent that, that would be fantastic. And this is with me trying to

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take care of it, but there's no real way to put down your phone. You can either

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put it on the screen or you can put it on the cameras. And I don't really want

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to damage either. So, I guess I'm out of luck. But you know who's not out of

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but I have to call out as being really nice. When I set up my phone to transfer all my stuff from my other phone, it

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just automatically ripped the information from the SIM card and put it as an eSIM on my new phone. Super

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convenient. Anyways, back to the phone. Here we have a 6.3 in Super XDR display.

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Their best display ever. And they mean it this time because it's actually the

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same display as the Pro models, which is awesome. So now you're getting 120 Hz.

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You're getting always on display. You're getting 30,000 nits of brightness, and

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you actually get that. We had Labs check out the phone, obviously, and they're

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able to validate those claims as 30,000 and some nits, and that's excellent.

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They also boast about getting 33% less reflections on your screen, but don't

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expect anything like the S25 Ultra. You're still going to have pretty gnarly

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reflections. But yeah, I guess it's better than my 13 Pro. Still not super

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visible. And though the screen gets 50% brighter than the iPhone 16, you don't

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have to worry about a huge hit to your battery life. This thing is a tank. I

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don't know why Apple is so afraid of telling us how many watt hours or millah

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battery is because this thing got what? 21 hours of battery life. That's crazy.

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I'm going to watch K-pop Demon Hunters like eight times. I've never seen it

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before. >> And if somehow you drain your battery

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all in one day, don't worry. You've got fast charging. Now, finally, on these

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regular phones, you're getting a 50% charge in 20 minutes. And again, Labs

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was able to verify that claim. You're actually going to get about 50% charge

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in just 20 minutes, which is a 10-minute improvement over the iPhone 16. That's

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great. But the only way this can be so good for media, and if I'm going to

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watch 21 hours of uh hit Netflix TV show, is if the screen and speaker sound

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good. So, let's pull up Crab Brave. Woo! Excuse the top down camera cuz this is

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blown out, but this screen is bright. Oh

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my goodness, this looks great. Other

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than the Face ID cutout, but I got to say, Face ID is worth the cutout. I was

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using the Pixel 10 Pro for a while and I did not like the uh underscreen

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fingerprint scanner compared to Face ID. Anyways, speakers.

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Okay, I got to say it sounds pretty good. It gets loud enough at 100% where

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it's almost a little uncomfortable, especially when you're holding the phone kind of cupping the speakers to be

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towards your ears. But at a lower volume that's a little bit more natural to be

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listening to. It still sounds pretty good. You still get a little tiny thump of bass. And uh yeah, overall pretty

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impressed. And if you're wondering, yes, it has two speakers. Unlike the Air,

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which only has one. You need two speakers. When it comes to performance,

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you'll never believe it. It's great. Like most iPhones, they're going to do

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excellently when it comes to CPU and GPU usage. Though you can't expect to be as

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good as the 17 Pro, it's actually not that far off being within 10 to 15% most

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benchmarks. and it absolutely hogwalops the Pixel 10 in every single test we

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threw at it. Destroyed. If you want more specifics, check out the Labs website.

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They're going to have a detailed rundown of all the new iPhones so you can see

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exactly how they line up. All right, here's the thing that's going to help

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you decide whether you're getting a 17 or a 17 Pro, the cameras, because that's

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really the big difference. Of course, the Pro is getting, you know, extra GPU,

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CPU, core, whatever that means, but the big thing is is that plateau with the

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extra camera. This one here only has, like I said, the 48 megapixel wide and

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ultrawide, but the Pro has the 48 megapixel 4x telephoto. Do you actually

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need it, though? Let's take a look. All right, we got perfect timing. My best

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friend, honestly, great guy, Adam Sergar, is here wearing a nice new LT

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Store shirt. Again, launching today on LT Store. Okay, so this is 1x, we got.5,

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and our 2x what they call optical quality zoom. And that just means

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they're taking that 48 megapixel sensor and binning it down to 12 megapixels to

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crop in. And it's supposed to look as good as if you had a real optical, but

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uh it probably doesn't. All right, here's a photo from our main camera. And

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I got to say, looks pretty good. It is very sharp even with the very

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challenging lighting. You can see the processing is trying to do a little bit to make sure that Adam is visible. He

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kind of gets the same effect that the Pixel 10 video had where Reese looked

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like a cardboard cutout. Adam kind of does here too, especially because he

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hits that pose so hard. But overall, a

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good photo, if not a little uncanny. Going into the ultra wide, again, things

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look pretty good. There's not a whole lot of distortion on the edges, which is

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fantastic. I mean, they've had a while to figure that out, but it seems like

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they've figured it out. And again, zooming in, you're getting a lot of

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quality when you punch in. Though, Adam does still look a little odd, but I

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think it's better than just having him completely unrecognizable or blown out

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because of all the lights. Going to our 2x optical quality zoom. You know what?

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That does look pretty good. I'm not going to lie, he looks pretty sharp. You

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can see the individual beard hairs and everything clearly. Going into the

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light, you can start to see again the details in the ribbon. There's a little

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bit of what looks like AI processing. Like things likely aren't that sharp

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naturally, but it's pretty convincing if it is just processing cuz again, who's

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really going to be punching in that that deep? So, yeah, it would be nice to have

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more of a zoom, but let's see what happens if we just zoom past this

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optical quality 2x zoom. All right, here's a photo at 4x, which is the

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optical quality on the Pro. And here's one at the max 10x digital zoom. Let's

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see if we can actually read anything on the cup at either of those levels. All

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right, here's the 4x. It's okay. I kind

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of appreciate that it's not guessing. I've seen videos from other creators

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where you can really see in like the Samsung cameras where they're trying to

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use AI to guess what it says and it just mangles everything. Uh the iPhone does

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not. It just lets you not be able to read it, which I guess is commendable. Going into the 10X, again, not bad. It

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says mark and it says R, but if I didn't know it said it, I might hesitate, but

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it's not it's not bad. I don't know what the order is, but it could be worse,

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especially when you punch out to the regular photo. I think Andrew looks totally fine here, though. I don't think

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it'd be something he'd set as a profile picture. By comparison, the 17 Pro can

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go all the way up to 40x using its digital zoom. You'll have to see how

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that turned out in Lines's video. And this is video. It also gives us a chance

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to check out the dual capture feature. So, if you're recording, you know, your

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friends and you're showing things around, you now get to pay attention to

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you in the corner and be distracted by that and probably miss whatever you're

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trying to shoot. Uh, I'm not sure. But you can move it around. Uh, you can't

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move it around after the fact and it'll show up in the video moving around the

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screen, which is kind of neat. But I I don't really know what this is for. I

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guess this is not for me. But hey, if this is for you, congrats. And yes, I've

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saved the best for last. And it's so rare to say this about a frontfacing

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camera, but it truly is the coolest camera on the phone and probably a peak

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into the future of what iPhone cameras look like because this has center stage.

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And you might say, I have that on my Mac. But it's a little different here

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because the front-facing camera has a larger square sensor which lets you do

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this. You can go to take a photo and go, I actually want it to be landscape. Tap

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the screen and boom. Whoa. It's punched out. And now you have all this space for

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all your friends. Look at Look at us. That's fantastic. I think it's really

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cool. And it will use AI to automatically detect when there are

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other people and let them into the frame as well. And it works for video as well.

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Look at this. I have landscape video, but I'm holding the phone vertically.

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Much more comfortable. And I guess that is the only perk of

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being able to do this. Remember when I said I'd talk about the camera capture button later? I kind of lied because in

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all that I never used it. It's really hard to get used to having this pressure

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sensitive button that does some things, but also, you know, it has it's really

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hard to tell what and when and how much pressure to use. And if you tap and

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hold, it changes things. And like just look at the settings menu for it. You

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can change single and double click if you need the screen on. These are all the adjustments you can change. And then

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I guess the order of those matters. I don't understand. And again, it's in a

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spot where you're pressing it quite often. It would have been a great Touch ID button. I was really hoping they were

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going to bring it as a Touch ID button, but they didn't. But you can use it to

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take a photo. Or you can use it to activate visual intelligence by holding

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it. And bam, visual intelligence. Learn about the objects and places around you

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and get more information about what you see. It's shared with Apple to process what's in view. Objects and places are

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not stored on device. So, if you care about that, be aware. All right. Let's

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see what happens if I click ask. Tapping

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the question box. Ask Chat GBD for more information by capturing what's in view.

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Okay. Uh, asking, "What am I looking at?" Film production setups often

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include multiple cameras, lighting rigs, and crew. Okay, that's kind of cool.

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What kind of iPhone is this? The iPhone shown has a triple lens camera system. I

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don't know if it's listening when it says asking CHBT. I actually think it's just sending a photo and it's giving a

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response that it wants, which is a little odd. I guess typing in here is

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convenient, but I would much rather be able to talk to it while I'm showing it

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whatever's on my screen. Okay, so tapping the search button searches

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Google for similar images by capturing and sending what's in view.

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I mean, it worked. It's just pictures of people's laptops. Very odd. Again, I

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don't really know what I would use this for. It's there. It's accessible in a button that I already don't want to use.

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So, your mileage may vary. And the last thing to talk about is iOS 26. You know,

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it's all liquid glass now, whatever that means. But, I actually think it looks

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kind of good. There are times where I think, you know, there's a lot of colors

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going on here because it's reflecting the home screen and things just look a

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little kind of all over the place, but overall, I think it actually kind of

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looks neat. But I might have just been getting bored with how everything was

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looking. And now having anything different is kind of a blessing. It's

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the same way I feel about the camera design. I think the Pro and the Air look kind of cool just because they look

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different. And that's where the biggest downfall of the iPhone 17 kind of comes

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into play, which is that it just looks like an iPhone. If you're someone who

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likes to show off your phone, the Pro really is that or the Air. And this is

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just the phone you should probably get, and that's not very exciting. But does

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exciting matter? It just seems to be the best phone. Starting at $800 for 256

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gigs, is fantastic. The always on display, which will hurt your battery

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life a little bit, but gives you so much more information at a glance. the 120

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Hz, which again doesn't really add a whole lot, but just feels great to use.

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The upgraded cameras, it just seems like the no-brainer, and maybe that's enough.

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But what do you think? Are you going to pick up an iPhone 17 series phone? Are

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these upgrades tempting enough to make you upgrade? Let us know down in the

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comments, and check out Lionus' coverage of the Air and the 17 Pro. They look

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exciting, but I think the base iPhone 17 is for