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iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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Re: iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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With the iPhone 17 Air, which has many of the Pro features that typically accompany the Pro model to differentiate it from the base model, in addition to the base model getting the marquee features of the Pro models such as the 120Hz/Always On Display, the Pro is very poorly differentiated unless you really make use of the three cameras.

And there's no black color.

Re: iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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I thought of upgrading my 3 year old pro, but seeing this there is no reason to. Apple Intelligence is nowhere to be found, extra camera is nice but this design... Oh my god, I know this is subjective, but this is really ugly.

Re: iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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post #3

I thought of upgrading my 3 year old pro, but seeing this there is no reason to. Apple Intelligence is nowhere to be found, extra camera is nice but this design... Oh my god, I know this is subjective, but this is really ugly.

99% of the time phones are on a case and used from the front screen so from where I stand I don’t care what it looks like from the back. And there is so few people using it caseless that it won’t really matter.

Re: iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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post #3

I thought of upgrading my 3 year old pro, but seeing this there is no reason to. Apple Intelligence is nowhere to be found, extra camera is nice but this design... Oh my god, I know this is subjective, but this is really ugly.

I was shocked how ugly it looks this time!

Re: iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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Surprising there’s no matte-black iPhone 17 Pro - dark, low-reflectance finishes are standard in pro video kit because they minimise specular reflections and stray highlights; keeping a shiny silver finish and skipping a subdued matte black feels like a strange choice and undercuts the “Pro” claim.

Re: iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

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Surprising there’s no matte-black iPhone 17 Pro - dark, low-reflectance finishes are standard in pro video kit because they minimise specular reflections and stray highlights; keeping a shiny silver finish and skipping a subdued matte black feels like a strange choice and undercuts the “Pro” claim.

Yep, their non matte black finishes reflect inside even the prosumer Elegato Teleprompter.
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