New Delhi: As a critic, it is a moment of thrill to tear down a package and get into that what have we got here feeling. If you have bought it and you are going to use it for the next two years, then you have to do your pre-research much better.

I bought the iPhone 17 a while back, and unfortunately, I couldn’t review it with the word go, and I thought after heavily using it for almost three months now, I had finally reached my conclusion on why I bought it. I upgraded it from an iPhone 13, which was many generations away. Since then, the lightning-fast charger has gone away, and even the iconic slider button for silence has been replaced. You now even have the camera button for capturing things and

Let me first take you through the buying process. First, in my humble opinion, all the good colours are somehow gone from the Apple palette. I wish the usual green, red, blue and black came, which were hard to part with. I myself had it in Red, and exchanging it for the new one damn near broke me into pieces. I think I am right in saying the Red and Blue iPhone 13 are probably the coolest-looking iPhones ever. Still, beyond the colours, the iPhone has improved by miles.

You get a 15.93 cm (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display, 2622×1206-pixel resolution at 460 ppi and always on-display as well. It comes with iOS 26, powered with Apple’s A19 chip and 8GB of RAM for smooth multitasking, and the 512 GB is enough for the videos and photographs one likes to have.

iPhone 17 comes with an aluminium body frame

iPhone 16 was made with an aluminium frame with a colour-infused glass back and Ceramic Shield front, while iPhone 16 Pro came with a titanium frame with a textured matte glass back and Ceramic Shield front. The iPhone 17 series is completely made of aluminium, and there is a problem with it getting easily damaged.

You have a precision-crafted aluminium frame and colour-infused glass back,........

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