Wongsakorn 2468/Shutterstock Another year, another smartphone upgrade cycle. The joke that smartphones have started to feel like exact copies of their previous generations is no longer funny — it's almost true. In fact, we're even starting to see generational downgrades. Take the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which stripped functionality from the S Pen, or the
After months of rumors, Apple finally introduced the all-new iPhone Air on September 9. This ultra-thin device challenges the conventional iPhone design by fitting everything under a new camera plateau. This intriguing bit of engineering puts all of the important components into a compact space, allowing Apple to improve battery life not only on this
The iPhone 17 is the most affordable of the four iPhones Apple launched at its September 2025 "Awe Dropping" event, and that automatically makes the most interesting to me. It may appear to be the most "boring" at first glance, but as I pointed out when I compared it with the iPhone Air, the iPhone
"Despite being much thinner and lighter, iPhone Air still gets amazing all-day battery life," Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, John Ternus, said during Apple's iPhone 17 launch event on Tuesday. "This is incredible — all-day battery life in our thinnest iPhone ever." Hilariously, seconds later, Ternus revealed the "low-profile" MagSafe Battery accessory for
The newest flagship devices from Apple will feature a new, higher-performing chip than the iPhone 16 lineup did. While Apple has made claims about what kind of performance you can expect to see when upgrading from an older iPhone to an iPhone Air or iPhone 17 Pro, benchmarks can often give us an even more
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It's not really what you think, though. Credit: Apple/YouTube Key Takeaways Apple's iPhone 17 Pro no longer starts at $999. Instead, the base model Pro starts at $1,099, while the base model 17 Pro Max starts at $1,199. This isn't a direct price increase, however: Apple simply dropped the 128GB models. Table of Contents Did
Apple’s “Awe Dropping” iPhone event today went big on hardware, debuting new AirPods Pro and Apple Watch models, as well as the entire iPhone 17 line. But despite a few token mentions while discussing chips, the event hardly touched on AI. That’s a big change of pace after last year’s iPhone 16 reveal, which focused
The skepticism that I had about Apple’s rumored crossbody iPhone strap can be put to rest now that it was officially announced at yesterday’s big iPhone 17 event. I’m suitably impressed. And if we can clear up some of the confusion about why it exists in the first place, then I think more people will
Apple's most famous chips are the A- and M-series processors that power its iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but this year, its effort to build its own wireless chips is starting to bear fruit. Earlier this spring, the iPhone 16e included Apple's C1 modem, furthering Apple's ambitions to shed its dependence on Qualcomm, and today's iPhone Air
